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Posted on April 28, 2010October 18, 2016 Literature

Taking the catcher out of the rye

On July first of last year, the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York (hotbed of intellectual... Read more

Posted on April 7, 2010April 8, 2010 Copyright Law Fair Use Internet Law

Patry and “The Copyright Wars”

The Copyright Clearance Center’s Beyond the Book feature just uploaded a podcast featuring Bill Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, copyright treatiste and, of course,... Read more

Posted on March 7, 2010March 7, 2010 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

Posted on November 24, 2009November 29, 2009 Copyright Law

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

Posted on October 18, 2009October 21, 2009 Copyright Law

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

Posted on December 29, 2008May 28, 2010 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on November 11, 2008March 22, 2011 Copyright Law Fair Use

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

Posted on March 30, 2007January 5, 2015 Copyright Law Fashion Law

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

Posted on September 2, 2005October 11, 2016 Copyright Law LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

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

Posted on January 25, 2005January 4, 2017 Copyright Law

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

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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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