Chris Creamer’s Sports Logos Page
SportsLogos.Net — very interesting! Hat tip to MarkenBlog. Tuesday is “pitchers and catchers“! Originally posted 2010-01-12 23:59:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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What “Beating Righthaven” means
Instapundit links to Donald Douglas’s blog post, Beating Righthaven. Excerpt: Righthaven files “no warning” lawsuits. That is, it gives no advance notification to defendants, which violates the norm of providing “take down notices” to those suspected of copyright violations. By doing this, Righthaven — which made a speciality out of suing small-time bloggers and “mom-and-pop” businesses — was able to scare the bejesus out of its targets, who then would settle out of court generally in... Read more
“When the Government Assaults the First Amendment”
From Freedom Fest, July 14, 2022 and featuring former Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, James O’Keefe III of Project Veritas, and the YouTuber known as Viva Frei. Read more
Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege
The New York State Bar Association’s Bright Ideas journal (Vol. 22, No. 2) 17 (Fall 2013) has just published my essay about shield laws entitled, Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege. And now you can read it. [ This is the article as it was republished in the New York State Bar Association Journal. It was also subsequently republished in 31 Computer & Internet Lawyer 9 (March 2014).] UPDATE: The case reported in this article in the New York Law... Read more
Blog Juice?
Joy McCann, blogging on Dean’s World, comments on a Slate article suggesting that bloggers are the Euro-American version of rappers. In your bottle-full-o-bub’ dreams, Joy! Originally posted 2013-06-18 10:42:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Virtual seizure of virtual counterfeits
Implicating, of course, real money. Hat tip to Stacia Lay. Originally posted 2008-02-05 12:06:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Patsy’s: Circuit Gently Pulls the Plug
Here (below) is something you don’t see every day. It’s a summary order [UPDATE: amended and corrected on August 18, 2021] in IOB Realty v. Patsy’s, the latest installment in the endless PATSY’S trademark litigation saga. There’s no sense in summarizing a summary order — but, really, wow. (Not that the previous opinion in an “unrelated” Patsy’s matter was just a bunch of calamari. Really — wow.) And I was there! Now, if you were... Read more
Wikipedia ends world; entry on world locked down
The Wall Street Journal asks, “Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?” It’s a debate between Wikipedia and Brittanica, if you can just imagine that. It’s certainly meaning the end of traditional PTO practice. It’s driving trademark lawyers nuts (see here, too). I liked this exchange involving colleague John Berryhill on yesterday’s INTA email list, reprinted with his permission: >The point is, why should Wikipedia be even considered as a reference on >the trademark... Read more
Information Wants to be Free; MS Pirate Does, Too
The Internet Cases blog reports that there’s nothing “unconstitutionally overbroad or vague” about the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, and that if you sell someone else’s software on a website — no matter how stupid you claim to be — you’re going down. Originally posted 2014-05-29 01:48:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Bully for who?
Or should it be whom? Anyway, my article on trademark bullying first published in January’s Intellectual Property Magazine and excerpted in this previous post, is now available free and easy for download, right here. Here’s what the old bloggers would call the “money quote” on that excerpt, if I may. Please forgive the British spelling — it’s that kind of magazine. Links are exclusive to here, though!: [T]here are real bullies, real abuses of the... Read more
Holy copyright baloney, Batman!
It’s not as if I’ve got a problem with DC Comics or something, but, well, here you go. They’re just being like that! And I’m just catching up with the fin-fendered fun. First, per the Autoblog, on September 22, 2015: Judges in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier ruling about the copyright ramifications of selling replicas of the Batmobile. According to an Associated Press report in the Detroit News, the unique appearance of... Read more
Dean’s World – Judgment Day
I have withdrawn as a contributor from Dean’s World, which has been a tremendous experience and great for promoting LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION. The tumult over Dean’s new policy regarding acceptable discourse on the issue of Islam is getting a bit of attention around the ‘sphere, too. It’s a fine debate. Meanwhile, you and I still have each other. UPDATE: Cooler — incredibly cool — head prevail. Originally posted 2007-03-02 20:44:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Schadenfreude hits a new high
You are now reading the only sentence I’m writing in this, the first-ever “no comment,” utterly self-explanatory (besides these introductory words) post on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® — via a site called Hyperallergic: In December, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies... Read more
