Even in slow motion, fair use is confusing
Ron ColemanVia Twitter, Rick Sanders pretty much writes a guest post for us — read his whole thread: Photographer took time-lapse photograph of a neighborhood at night. Promoter of festival taking…
Pre-kill
And once again, resistance to Eriq Gardner is futile — his piece, linked to in the tweet embedded below, tells the whole story with his characteristically lucid prose and complete…
Nominative fair use: The Second Circuit names names
Nominative fair use — the “unauthorized” use of a trademark as a trademark specifically to invoke the trademark, as opposed to its “non-trademark” use to describe the alleged infringer’s goods…
Trademark parodies and iconic marks: can foul become fair?
In 2010 I wrote this post about a now-notorious case, eventually ensconced as Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. v. Hyundai Motor America, 2012 WL 1022247 (S.D.N.Y., March 22, 2012) and covered…
Follow the dancing baby
Whoa! HUUGE! #copyright https://t.co/PeNgW4yYXD — Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) September 16, 2015 It is huge. Here’s the New York Times‘s coverage; here’s the Wall Street Journal; and here’s the actual 9th…
Best of 2009: The DMCA and the search engine
Posted on August 6, 2009. Traverse Legal: Mary Roach has a great post at CircleID on an area that we have talked about extensively, namely, copyright takedowns under the Digital…
“DUMB STARBUCKS”: Grasping at laws.
Matthew David BrozikYour blawger, he is conflicted. Part of me does not want to give the—ahem—geniuses behind the DUMB STARBUCKS stunt any more press, but the rest of me feels that you,…
Fight for your right to parody. Or don’t.
Sometimes, just when a copyright dispute is getting very interesting, the parties go and do the unthinkable: They resolve their differences like reasonable people, and then there’s nothing left to…
One publisher’s take on the Google Books decision
Sanford Gray ThatcherThe following appeared in an alumni email discussion list of which I happen to be administrator. It’s a list for Princeton alumni in the legal profession, which would include Judge…
Authors Guild v. Google: Judge Chin’s decision in favor of Google Books
Anyone looking for the Author’s Guild v. Google decision on the Southern District of New York website is going to have a hard time: It’s working like the Obamacare website…
Don’t say it! SUPER BOWL®, that is.
I don’t watch a lot of TV — don’t even have one, actually. And I only raise the topic because that is my excuse for missing this epochal commercial riffing…
The Google Library Project and the dog that didn’t bark — yet
Nicholas WellsThis post is the first by a new guest contributor, Utah IP lawyer Nicholas Wells, who also blogs on IP here. I first blogged about the tiff between Google and…
Streisand walks again
Lawyer, media critic and intrepid blogger Patterico reports all about a compelling illustration of the Streisand Effect in his life — and, as you will see, in mine. Quite interesting…
PissedConsumer.com: Devere Group v. Opinion Corp.
I have — win, lose or draw — kept you all abreast of the progress of the various lawsuits against PissedConsumer.com (otherwise known as Opinion Corp.), the gripe site that…