Steal your Face right off your head
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a blog post so well developed that I can’t rephrase it, riff on it or summarize it,... Read more
Category: Enforcement
See and “D”
The “D” as in “Defense.” The put-upon pun is on “C & D,” which is what we pros call a cease and desist letter. As... Read more
Suing bloggers for dollars
Glenn Reynolds links to a an article in Wired about a newspaper “chain”‘s — actually, lawyer Steve Gibson’s — “new business model”: Suing bloggers who post newspaper... Read more
Best of 2011: The entrepreneurship of trademark bullying
Originally posted January 12, 2011. I figured I must have written somewhere about that PTO trademark bullying thing — or if I didn’t, I am... Read more
Inevitable lawsuit by music people against MySpace
The Times gets the story down. (On topics not involving politics, regarding which the paper is hopelessly corrupt, it’s still very good.) Is clunky, social-networking-for-twenty-somethings... Read more
Best of 2013: The Lanham Act’s surprising penumbras
First published on July 15, 2013. Here I thought I understood something about the Lanham Act. But wait, there’s more! Did you know this?: The purpose... Read more
The Lanham Act’s surprising penumbras
Here I thought I understood something about the Lanham Act. But wait, there’s more! Did you know this?: The purpose of the Lanham Act is to... Read more
Best of 2009: They always get their man
Posted November 24, 2009. Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they? A few... Read more
“Tolerated use”
Tim Wu (via Glenn Reynolds) says that we have to deal with the fuzzy logic of copyright enforcement in order properly to understand how copyright... Read more
Branding in the “Wild East”
[stextbox id=”info”]China beguiles. If it’s not one thing with those guys, it’s another. If it’s not fake Apple stores, it’s fake IKEA stores: It seems... Read more
South Korea: Hey, that’s MY ox!!
Stars and Stripes reports the bare bones of a story: A couple of GI’s stationed in South Korea were “convicted” (sounds like a criminal case)... Read more
The (Lang) Van guards of the proletariat (updated)
Remember when Vietnam was communist and stuff? Probably not. Well, I do. And yes, I look it. And yes, GET OFF MY LAWN! Anyway, even... Read more
What web developers should know about copyright
For some reason (maybe a weeklong trial?) I kind of missed the Megaupload story from mid-January. My bad. What story? Oh, this Megaupload story: Police... Read more
How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal | Apple – CNET News
Did you ever wonder how Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal? I did, because after all that was my most recent (and not so... Read more