The prosecution of Ari Teman and the threat to online business
Ron ColemanHere is my letter to the President explaining my take on this. Ari’s website, is here and includes links to this letter from Lawrence Lessig, this piece by Alan Dershowitz…
Complaint in Gab.AI v. Google
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. Kudos to Marc Randazza and Jordan Rushie for having the courage to file this complaint! Yes, I helped. I wrote it. UPDATE:…
Roca rocked; Randazza revels
You may have already read the previous post, only from yesterday, about the Roca Labs v. PissedConsumer follies. If you have, great. If you haven’t… maybe you want to come…
Uncle Sam Wants You! To Hack for the US Government
Brian WallaceYears ago I co-authored an article called “Hacker with a White Hat.” I had just stumbled on the metaphor — really. The article is kind of quaint in modern terms.…
Book ’em, Dan-o!
There really is still such a thing as personal jurisdiction — and its absence — even in the Internet age, reports Evan Brown: Last year Facebook made us wonder if…
Best of 2010: Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due
Jane ColemanFirst posted July 12, 2010. This is an adaptation of a summary and analysis of the recent decision in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp., 2010 WL 2541367 (S.D.N.Y.),…
Best of 2010: Forget breakfast — eBay eats Tiffany’s lunch
The Second Circuit, unsurprisingly according to most commentators, has affirmed the decision of the Southern District of New York refusing to find eBay liable for contributory trademark infrintgement in the…
But it is the Dark Side? Or just plain old The Force?
Evan Brown: “Behold the power of in rem actions“: In rem actions over domain names are powerful tools. A trademark owner can undertake these actions when it identifies an infringing…
Net Neutrality: Only one thing could be worse.
I haven’t written much about Net Neutrality. A few years ago I did say this: Concurring Opinions writes in favor of Net Neutrality — a key issue, and one that…
Transamerica v. Moniker Online: When domain registrars go bad
This is a summary and analysis of the decision in Transamerica Corp. v. Moniker Online Services, 672 F.Supp.2d 1353 (S.D. Fla. 2009), which stands for the proposition that, yes, a…
John Doe in Illinois
Evan Brown lays this out so clearly it would be a shame to go through the trouble of paraphrasing: Zynga (you know, the creator of Farmville and Mafia Wars) has…
Patry and “The Copyright Wars”
The Copyright Clearance Center’s Beyond the Book feature just uploaded a podcast featuring Bill Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, copyright treatiste and, of course, on-again blogger. Bill talks about…
Some intel on INTEL®
BUMPED from January 1, 2010 and UPDATED due to decision (scroll to the bottom for the stunning conclusion): Had you heard about this one from Mike Masnick? Chip giant Intel…
Google Books debate
It’s all Google, all the time in our world. (I know that because I did a Google search of our world.) So, naturally, what’s the hottest multimedia download on the…