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Category: Culture Clash

Posted on September 13, 2022 Culture Clash

One nation, under gods

Volokh.com weighs in on an issue, not irrelevant to this blog (where the First Amendment is a topic), I blogged about on Dean’s World a... Read more

Posted on June 27, 2022 Culture Clash

Occupying trademark

So eventually all the “big trademark stories” catch up to you, even if you try to avoid them as you would try to avoid …... Read more

Posted on June 16, 2022June 26, 2022 Culture Clash

Fat, addicted to Internet and stupid no way to go through life

“Another” Internet-related death (apologies to the “X-Police“) (and Dean Wormer of course)… Originally posted 2013-10-11 13:01:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on June 1, 2022 Culture Clash

Good Deed for the Day: Helping Old Producers Cross Agents

In far-off Hong Kong, the Motion Picture Association has created a Boy Scout merit badge on copyright [original link lost, sorry — RDC]: Boy Scouts in Hong... Read more

Posted on May 11, 2022 Culture Clash

STOLICHNAYA trademark: There’s good news and bad news.

The statutory copyright damages awards merry-go-round Thomas-Rasset circus is not the only case that seems to be stuck in an infinitely-recurring loop.  As Pamela Chestek explains, “the... Read more

Posted on April 24, 2022 Culture Clash

Move on, already

Yet another chapter in the abuse of supposed trademark rights in “catchphrases” — now from MoveOn, the “freedom” people. The purveyor of an “infringing” T-shirt... Read more

Posted on January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Culture Clash

Update: Who Rolled the Stone Away?

Courtesy of Best of the Web Today, we learn that Rolling Stone magazine has repented of its earlier sins and  has accepted the Bible ad. Funny how a little publicity can... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Culture Clash

De-Branding Columbia University’s Nazi triumph

(First posted September 24, 2007) “If Columbia is not ashamed of the decision,” writes Justin Hart, why did it de-brand Holocaust denier / promiser Ahmadinejad of Iran... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Culture Clash

Counterfeit rodent gets the cheese

Decadent western culture is rat obsessed, it’s true. But sometimes the rodent has to take one for the team. Now, in true Islamist fashion, but... Read more

Posted on May 25, 2021 Culture Clash

Sewage Treatment

The issue of companies that technologically filter the sludge that oozes out of Hollywood in order to preserve a semblance of entertainment or enlightenment in... Read more

Posted on October 31, 2019 Culture Clash

Politically incorrect trademarks, continued

Bad feelings from (not so?) long ago get played out across the China Straits. Just how much should trademark registration reflect personal, national, or ethnic... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 Culture Clash

Fishy business

Funny things happen to trademarks in the Casbah.  John Burgess at the Crossroads Arabia blog has a story about a recent incident of Saudi Arabia’s... Read more

Posted on October 13, 2019 Culture Clash

Lessig in The Public Domain

We’ve written here about the madness of rent-seeking as the only goal of intellectual property policy. Lawrence Lessig writes wisely: Foreign Policy: The Public Domain... Read more

Edward R. Murrow
Posted on May 21, 2019June 7, 2019 Culture Clash

Fifth Estate Mythology

Jack Shafer of Slate is linkable again — this time skewering the new Edward R. Murrow movie that continues the deification of the Great Man... 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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