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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 … […]
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Continue reading » 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Continue reading » 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).
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