What’s A Library, and What Is Google Going to do to It?
Discussed with intelligence and insight at the Derivate Work blog. Originally posted 2005-08-19 16:32:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Category: Fair Use
Grateful Defendant
The New York Law Journal reports online (registration required) that the Southern District of New York has, thankfully, put a rare brake on the copyright... Read more
Sealed with a fist
I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which really should both... Read more
Nominative fair use: The Second Circuit names names
Nominative fair — the “unauthorized” use of a trademark as a trademark specifically to invoke the trademark, as opposed to its “non-trademark” use to describe the... Read more
Unofficial, and in court
Mike Mintz reports about a lawsuit brought in California by Brian Kopp, the publisher of an unofficial guidebook for a computer game called World of... Read more
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... Read more
Unfair use
More pain, very little gain — besides for lawyers’ college funds — in the roiling world of trademark fair use. Originally posted 2012-09-10 06:00:30. Republished... Read more
Baseball been very, very good to lawyers
Do you remember the lawsuit by Major League Baseball over the use of — well, not statistics, exactly, but the rights of publicity in baseball... Read more
Reproducing book covers?
Nolo’s Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Blog engages a common type of inquiry: Dear Rich: I have a question. I’m starting a literary website and I’d... Read more
More on virtual infringement
I’ve already written about what they’re writing about it, and now, so has Victoria Pynchon. Originally posted 2013-01-13 22:41:32. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
An opinion to Di for
I do a lot of bellyaching around here about how there are never any consequences for filing frivolous trademark and copyright lawsuits. What’s the worst... Read more
Best of 2008: The Long and Rocky Road
This was first posted on May 7, 2008. Irvin Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died yesterday. Here’s how much time has... Read more
No jokey!
Did you ever contemplate the grand institution of karaoke and ask, hey, how do they do that? Copyright-wise, that is? Don’t wonder any more. Originally... Read more
More fantasy sports litigation
We wrote in the past about the bogus “right of publicity” issue and the unsuccessful attempt by major league sports to claim ownership in statistics... Read more