Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
Copyright Law
Dennis Crouch: Patent Litigator Andy Dhuey is also representing Photographer David John Slater who has been sued by the monkey Naruto for copyright infringement. In the 9th Circuit Brief, Dhuey writes: A monkey, an animal-rights organization and a…
It’s the April Fool’s Blawg Review! (Or is this it?) Originally posted 2013-10-29 12:56:19. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Section 2(a)
Victory has a hundred fathers https://t.co/G9Z7QOVH8l — Likelihood ®© Blog (@likely2confuse) June 19, 2017 Now let’s name some of them. Because while I have many thoughts and learned many things since I got involved with…
Roundups
I am way overdue for this, and no: it’s not just a cop-out to avoid “real blogging.” These tweets and RT’s are not at all different from what used to qualify as blog posts back…
Brand Management and Branding
Originally posted on November 13, 2008: “We cannot allow our brand to be abused.” What “brand” is that? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brand. The greed of the King “branders” was one of…
Brand Management and Branding
CNN has a nice piece on “Brands We Loved and Lost in 2009.” Okay, we didn’t really “love” Home Depot’s Expo design centers and we never quite could let down our guard about Microsoft’s Encarta. …
Brand Management and Branding
Fictioneer-with-a-law-degree Matthew David Brozik (not David Marc Nieporent) writes about Colonel Sanders‘s identity crisis. I too was intrigued when I noticed the “KFC” people were playing the guitar lick from “Sweet Home Alabama” behind their…
From Reuters: Google Inc. has knocked Microsoft Corp. from its perch as the world’s top-ranked brand, according to findings released on Monday. The rankings, compiled by market research firm Millward Brown, also put Google ahead…
False Advertising
Here’s a very good article by Arnold & Porter’s Randy Miller, strictly for trademark lawyers and those who encamp around them, on the Advertising Compliance website run by my old friend John Lichtenburger about an important…
IP Overreaching
Here’s the story about how Indiana University stopped Indoctrinate U. — a documentary that is critical of political correctness on American college campuses — in its tracks a few weeks ago, even though the school…
IP Overreaching
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 Millennium Copyright Act. Mary’s post covers the more specific strategy of sending…
IP Overreaching
Orwell Estate Sends Copyright Takedown Over the Number “1984” – TorrentFreak https://t.co/eKgwHmhXmf — TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) October 27, 2015 It’s like something out of 1984! Where to start? Where to begin? With the complaint, of course….
Roundups
Note: This was first posted on December 12, 2008. On review in 2016, it became apparent that a great many of the links were dead. Considering the choice between keeping the outgoing links to worthy…
Fashion Law
So much for Special Creation in blog graphics, I guess. It seems that the theologically inclined among us trademark law types think alike… but in any event, it’s good news for the sartorially-oriented as well….