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Category: Copyright Law

Posted on September 22, 2023 Copyright Law

They always get their man

Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they?   A few years ago, criminal enterprise... Read more

Posted on September 11, 2023 Copyright Law

Copywrite

This Copywrite blog is really good. Originally posted 2009-12-22 17:19:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on September 5, 2023 Copyright Law

A Short Novel About a Girl and Her Copyright Problem

I, Matthew David Brozik, your dedicated lieutenant blawger, have written a novel. Actually, I’ve written three. And, also, this one—Taking Ivy Seriously—is really a novella,... Read more

Posted on August 26, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Fair Use Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2010: Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010

First posted on January 17, 2010. From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list.  One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and... Read more

Posted on August 11, 2023 Copyright Law

Mourning Sonny

Posted on November 17th, 2008: No, not that Sonny. No, rather this: If America’s most famous variety-show-star-turned-congressman hadn’t slammed into that tree on that fatal... Read more

Posted on August 8, 2023 Copyright Law

The AP, copyright, and the bloggers

You can’t have missed the story, in all its agony. One weensy problem with the blogosphere: It’s so quick, so supple, so instantaneous, so plastic…... Read more

Posted on July 17, 2023July 24, 2023 Copyright Law

A back seat for copyright

Let’s get apolitically political here (via Instapundit, Mr. Diversity himself): An informal national coalition of Internet pioneers and users with widely divergent political views will... Read more

Posted on July 16, 2023July 24, 2023 Copyright Law

Registration and copyrights

What’s all this I hear about the Supreme Court saying copyrights having to be registered for some reason? This thread provides a good summary of... Read more

Posted on June 30, 2023July 12, 2023 Copyright Termination

Lawyers of steel

This story is all over the everywhere; I’ll let Eriq Gardner sum it up, as he does so very nicely: Warner Bros. has won a... Read more

Posted on June 29, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Fair Use

“We cannot allow our brand to be abused”

Originally posted on November 13, 2008: “We cannot allow our brand to be abused.”  What “brand” is that? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... Read more

Posted on June 13, 2023July 12, 2023 Copyright Law

Unsettling settlement

Two years ago I expressed my own criticism, and later rounded up a number of other views, of the case brought by J.D. Salinger against a... Read more

Beanstalk's Oliver Herzfeld
Posted on June 11, 2023July 12, 2023 Copyright Law

Best of 2012: The borders of Terpsichore

First published August 8, 2012. My über-sharp friend Oliver Herzfeld, moving up in the world, has written an article in Forbes magazine on a recent Copyright Office policy... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2023July 13, 2023 Copyright Law Free Expression

Moral rights in Massachusetts

Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law:  A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual Rights Act, which–well, Lee says... Read more

Posted on May 18, 2023 Copyright Law Fair Use

Publishers vs. YouTube

Mack Reed puts his finger on it — almost — in the Online Journalism Review: The Web has made unauthorized propagation of information — whether... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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