New Niche for the Numb of New York
Jeff Jarvis reports that a new demographic has been discovered: I had to laugh at this quote from an entertainment exec in Saul Hansell’s NY... Read more
Tag: Big Thoughts
“I didn’t make him for you”
Google is not a utility. Or an agent of the state, or a thing that owes anyone anything except to the extent they pay for... Read more
Fraud, trademark, and rights
Mises Blog: This is my main problem with current trademark law — that in transferring the customer-fraud-based right to trademark holders, the fraud basis is... Read more
Adverference?
Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured out what was going on with banner ads... Read more
King Kong meets Godzilla
Via Drudge — FT.com unleases a whopper: Microsoft on Tuesday launches a fierce attack on Google over its “cavalier” approach to copyright, accusing the internet... Read more
Best of 2006: The Eve of Destruction
Posted on January 26, 2006. Big buzz for the new book by my law school classmate and ideological opposite, Professor Doug Litowitz: Advance praise for... Read more
Where you stand depends on where you sit
[stextbox id=”info”]I’ve never had a guest post in response to a LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® item before, but that’s only because no one with the stature... Read more
Side by side comparison doesn’t decide likelihood of confusion
This is an important decision: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has partially reversed the earlier ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Southern... Read more
No more Star Chamber opinions
Legal Times reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday adopted a historic rule change that will allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts... Read more
Jews for Jesus v. Google and Brodsky – update and analysis
I was on a panel called “Trademark Rights vs. Free Speech” at the Fall 2000 INTA Trademarks in Cyberspace Conference with Marty Schwimmer and David... Read more
The Floyd Abrams Myth
Mickey Kaus links to this story about “the federal government’s decision to drop subpoenas issued to The New York Times and the writer of a... Read more
Update: Sewage Treatment
I wrote last year about Hollywood’s getting its collective nose out of joint over CleanFlicks, a service that shaves the titillating edges of popular culture... Read more
Is Google a utility?
We wrote about the Kinderstart lawsuit against Google, claiming an unfairly depressed Google search rank, last March. There have been further, very interesting, developments, exemplified... Read more
Moral rights in Massachusetts
Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law: A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual Rights Act, which–well, Lee says... Read more