Fringefringing
Ron ColemanInstapundit: VIACOM CHARGES MAN WITH VIOLATING HIS OWN COPYRIGHT, after he YouTubed their program that used his video. No, you can’t make this stuff up. UPDATE: On the other hand,…
More digital law
It’s the fingers again. By now you heard about the dispute about the “thumbs up” “trademark” claim being bandied with respect to Roger Ebert, the movie reviewer. A trademark in…
Saving pixels
TechCrunch: Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March. CEO Jason Kilar says the name…
Find that right
Concurring Opinions, via Instapundit, writes in favor of Net Neutrality — a key issue, and one that affects the ability of everyone in the world to get his thoughts on…
Using personal email for business purposes
It’s not usually a great idea to use your personal email account for business purposes. Sometimes you’re stuck — you can’t get access to your work account, or that account…
The wild card in music downloading
You thought college students were lawless about file “sharing”? Well, Russia is feeling its oats these days, what with oil prices up and dictatorship back in style. That’s bad for…
Copyright is good for you. But not for me.
Ron ColemanEveryone steals a little copyright, right? Well, even if so, you perhaps shouldn’t if you’re pitching enhanced use of copyright. At least not so stupidly. Via Instapundit.
DMCA: How not to use
Law firms are supposed to know this kind of thing, aren’t they?
Lawyers in action
Engadget reports that UniquePhones’s iPhone unlock release has been impeded by lawyers doing their jobs. They can slow it, but they surely can’t stop it. It’s interesting to see this…
Putting trademark in the corner
Catchphrases such as THREE-PEAT with no coherent secondary meaning and no meaningful trademark identity are one of the really galling misuses of trademarks these days. Nick Daly sends along this…
A theory of likelihood of confusion
The Legal Theory Blog excerpts from a recent article on the the back story of trademark litigation, by one Michael Grynberg: The plaintiff effectively represents two parties. She defends her…
Big Hitter?
“Blawg Review’s Big Hitters”? — boy, maybe we’d better raise our billable rate!
New clothes for YouTube
So can YouTube ever make any money?
Counterfeit Chic: Knockoff News 67
Read it and laugh. Or cry. Definitely laugh or cry. Then read this really good article on Counterfeit Chic which stands for the proposition that designers shouldn’t use their own…