Baseball been very, very good to lawyers
Do you remember the lawsuit by Major League Baseball over the use of — well, not statistics, exactly, but the rights of publicity in baseball... Read more
Category: Copyright Law
Mash this
But can you, really, dance to it? Alan Wexelblat says yes, but the copyright part? Some pretty complicated steps: I think that modern dance music,... Read more
Ode to the Code
Yehuda Berlinger, whose poetic version of the Lanham Act we linked to anon, also did the Copyright Act last summer. Somehow I missed it, but... Read more
Norway puts it to Apple
Yahoo! News / Reuters: Norway stepped up its battle with Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes on Thursday when its consumer ombudsman said the software giant must... Read more
Best of 2008: “Designer Skin v. S&L Continued: ‘S&L had a perfect right to sell this product'” (July)
This was first posted on July 18th: Unfortunately for future defendants in the position of our client, Internet retailer S&L, U.S. District Judge James Teilborg’s... Read more
Google and the bookmakers
Remember the Google book-scan lawsuit? No, we hadn’t either; we hardly even remember books. But thanks to Jaded Topaz we’re reminded, as she sends along... Read more
Mock smocks spur suit
The New York Post reports that Diane von Furstenberg is suing over knockoffs of her designer smock dress things: The famed designer thinks cheapie-fashion store... Read more
American Graffiti
Graffiti: Art or crime? And by crime, I don’t mean mere vandalism. I mean criminally bad legal-decision-making. The New York Law Journal reports: On July... Read more
See Dick Win. Pay, Defendant, Pay.
By now you must have heard about the dustup involving Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The irony for me is that not long after I... Read more