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Tag: Copyright Law

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

Posted on April 30, 2023 Uncategorized

Unilateral copyright law

Eugene Volokh joins the pile–on regarding a website that claims to exempt its contents from the liberating effects of the fair use doctrine.  The North... Read more

Posted on April 10, 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 April 7, 2023 Copyright Law

Ads for pirates

Imagine a world where producers and owners of TV shows, movies and the not only upload full-length copyrighted video content onto the Web in the... Read more

Posted on March 31, 2023 Enforcement

Suing bloggers for dollars

Glenn Reynolds links to a an article in Wired about a newspaper “chain”‘s — actually, lawyer Steve Gibson’s — “new business model”:  Suing bloggers who post newspaper... Read more

Posted on February 5, 2023 Humor

Where Were You When “Happy Birthday to You” Was Found to Be in the Public Domain?

Newly discovered evidence [according to a court filing] “proves conclusively that Happy Birthday has been in the public domain since no later than 1922.” At... Read more

Posted on December 27, 2022 Distribution systems

Zediva: The world’s longest extension cord

The AP reports that a small California (of course) company thinks it has a brilliant idea, a way to out-Netflix Netflix: Zediva Inc. is going... Read more

Posted on December 6, 2022 Distribution systems

Death By Lawyer

  Originally, originally posted 2007-06-13 20:42:40. Republished by Blog Post Promoter They make that sound like a bad thing. Now, I wouldn’t agree with each and every little... Read more

Posted on November 14, 2022 Copyright Law Fashion Law

Mock smocks spur suit

The New York Post reports that Diane von Furstenberg is suing over knockoffs of her designer smock dress things: The famed designer thinks cheapie-fashion store... Read more

Posted on October 8, 2022 Copyright Law

See Dick Win. Pay, Defendant, Pay.

By now you must have heard about the dustup involving Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The irony for me is that not long after I... Read more

Posted on October 4, 2022 Remedies

Things will never be the same

Larry Zerner: On August 3, 2011, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in the case Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google, Inc. made a major change relating to copyright... Read more

College Belushi
Posted on September 24, 2022 Free Expression

College review website: Not hardly infringing anything, says SDNY

Out of respect for the Passover holiday, which ends next Tuesday night, I am not blogging as such. But to keep the pot boiling, I... 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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