Ron Coleman on the law affecting brands, the Internet & free speech
Those of you of a certain age will remember the classic SNL parody commercial for “New Shimmer“: It’s kind of the same thing with Aereo, […]
First posted November 3, 2011. Instapundit links to Donald Douglas’s blog post, Beating Righthaven. Excerpt: Righthaven files “no warning” lawsuits. That is, it gives no advance […]
And the metaphors mix, as you’ll see, but what better on a Halloween night where half the lights in the neighborhood are out for real? […]
In part one of this post I laid out the following propositions: (a) We operate in a common-law system, so want and expect judges to […]
UPDATE, June 25, 2014: The Supreme Court has ruled. [Still, read this. Then read this. — RDC] If you are a real IP lawyer, or […]
It’s easy to make money on licensing when you don’t pay the royalties: A multi-agency task force has executed a search warrant on the country’s […]
How else to describe a post (this one) that combines two of our favorite obsessions — Google and fair use? Business Week online reports that […]
I do this for a living and I can’t keep this stuff straight. It’s not just me. Wired opines: It’s time for lawmakers, trade groups, […]
Unsurprising news: In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of […]
It rejects the stupid and unconstitutional argument that “commercial use” under the Lanham Act’s dilution provisions can be found where there is simply “diversion.”
Got this video by Kirby Ferguson from Holmes Wilson at “Fight for the Future,” a starry-eyed organization that looks a little naive and a little goofy, but […]
Far be it from me to be a malcontent, but one problem we have around here is that the copyright and trademark statutes have changed […]
Now this is interesting! The Gray Blog is dedicated solely to the topic of gray market or “parallel market” goods, a subject near and dear […]
We have written before (as have some judges) about the dubious concept of “diversion,” usually used to rationalize the equally dubious concept of “initial interest […]