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Tag: Copyright Law

Posted on November 14, 2023 Licensing

Revoke this, I implied. Or something.

Only a real IP lawyer like Pamela Chestek can write about revoking an implied nonexclusive copyright license. And mean it. Originally posted 2011-03-24 17:58:18. Republished... Read more

Posted on November 2, 2023 IP Overreaching

The DMCA and the search engine

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... Read more

Posted on October 19, 2023 Fashion Law

Smocking it out

Ben Manevitz updates us on the Diane van Furstenburg “you stole my smock” litigation. Ben’s take: “As a litigator, I’m going to give everyone involved... Read more

Posted on September 25, 2023 Fashion Law IP Institutions Politics

COICA: Big IP supersizes it

Everything I’ve written about here for the last five years, or just about everything, is about to get a lot worse, explains David Post: Congress... Read more

Posted on September 22, 2023 Copyright Law

They always get their man

Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they?   A few years ago, criminal enterprise... Read more

Posted on September 11, 2023 Copyright Law

Copywrite

This Copywrite blog is really good. Originally posted 2009-12-22 17:19:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on August 14, 2023 Fee Shifting

Show me the money

Copyright is happening all over the place! Now, a slight digression from the stemwinder I’m about to release here on fee shifting in copyright cases.... Read more

Posted on August 11, 2023 Copyright Law

Mourning Sonny

Posted on November 17th, 2008: No, not that Sonny. No, rather this: If America’s most famous variety-show-star-turned-congressman hadn’t slammed into that tree on that fatal... Read more

Posted on July 21, 2023 Gripe and Review Sites

Decline and fall of the dumb copyright trick

One of the dumbest things people — overlawyered, and, sadly, mainly professionally-licensed people — have tried to do to avoid negative online reviews is to... Read more

Posted on July 17, 2023July 24, 2023 Copyright Law

A back seat for copyright

Let’s get apolitically political here (via Instapundit, Mr. Diversity himself): An informal national coalition of Internet pioneers and users with widely divergent political views will... Read more

Posted on June 14, 2023 Damages

Best of 2009: “Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury, Part 1

A lot of people, including judges, lawyers and civilians, don’t seem to really understand what statutory damages are all about.  They are not supposed to... Read more

Posted on May 29, 2023 Counterfeiting & Piracy

My favorite infringements

Boing Boing: “Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.” I can think of others, frankly, but fine. As long as we’re calling a spade a... Read more

Posted on May 18, 2023 Copyright Law Fair Use

Publishers vs. YouTube

Mack Reed puts his finger on it — almost — in the Online Journalism Review: The Web has made unauthorized propagation of information — whether... Read more

Posted on May 12, 2023 Copyright Law

No more free ride

Attributor is a new program that online publishers can and do use to trace their verbal content across the Internet and see who is using... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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