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
Category: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One nation, under gods
David Bernstein weighs in on an issue, not irrelevant to this blog (where the First Amendment is a topic), I blogged about on Dean’s World... Read more
Trademark McCrisis? (Or, McArabia)
Is this good for McDonalds’ branding (click here for my personal favorite URL)? I’m not so sure it’s that bad. Having your trademark publicly desecrated... Read more
Best of 2005: Cleaning Up, or Getting Their Clocks Cleaned?
Posted on August 19, 2005. I stumbled on this article in Slate and it seemed to contradict my point in one of my favorite posts.... Read more
Those idealistic sixties
Groovy. Read more
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). Read more