Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
DMCA
Lee Gesmer at MassLawBlog explains why the hullaballoo about YouTube’s exposure to copyright liability is overstated. I agree with his analysis and have lots of other little thoughts about it, and you’d have read them…
Social Media
If any of part of the opinion in Netchoice decision (full opinion here) sounds familiar, well, it should.
Politics
Bloomberg News reports that “my generation”‘s President is every bit as thoroughly modern as you’d expect. In other words, no unauthorized drawing down of his icon-equity will be permitted: Yes you can, Brad! Oops, sorry. …
Likelihood of Confusion
I try to tread lightly with respect to blogging about cases I’m involved with, but there’s not much question that the December 13, 2011 Eastern District of New York opinion in Ascentive, LLC v. Opinion Corp., 2011…
Roundups
I can’t remember the last time I rounded up recent topical Twitter tweets via this blog’s likely2confuse feed, and I’m not even going to try to backfill that far. But here’s a bunch to catch…
Counterfeiting & Piracy
Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “home court” for LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®) has never been afraid to stick his neck out, at least a little bit. He’s…
Culture Clash
Volokh.com weighs in on an issue, not irrelevant to this blog (where the First Amendment is a topic), I blogged about on Dean’s World a few weeks ago (I recycled the title, which is just…
Counterfeiting & Piracy
Costco owes Tiffany more than $19 million for selling counterfeit rings https://t.co/bPj2IC2a34 pic.twitter.com/ZUjavk8TRH — Business – DM (@BusinessMarkhor) August 15, 2017 I wrote last fall that it didn’t look like it could get much worse for…
Costumes and Clothing
Hot (if unlike LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® you go for that sort of thing) off the presses — here’s the appellate brief in the Chippendale’s appeal of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s affirmation of In re Chippendales…
Rights of Publicity and Personality
Right out of the Smoking Gun: Back in the day when young drug dealer 50 Cent had a beef, he’d settle it gangsta style. But the old days are long gone and now rapper Curtis…
Stealing the Language
If you’ve seen one disgruntled-former-law-associate attack gripe site, you’ve seen them all. But I did like this point by gold-plated pariah Edward Harrington Heyburn, Esq. (corrected). Because he’s so big on free expression, especially his of course…
Free Expression
I am pleased and honored to be involved in this appeal as counsel of record for these amici alongside my friend, colleague and classmate David Bernstein, counsel of record and chiseled trademark litigation god-king for appellant…
Privacy
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Government
It’s nothing personal if they do, but — does the NSA think, maybe, you’re a terrorist? Don’t be surprised if it does. Source: TopComputerScienceDegrees.com Originally posted 2013-10-08 18:16:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter