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
Category: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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