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Tag: Copyright Law

Posted on August 9, 2021 Roundups

Semi-monthly off the wall tweets

Here’s what I have been chirping about lately: RT @ArsLaw: Tenenbaum: $675K stat. dams absurd; I caused $21 in losses | Ok, even I don’t... Read more

Posted on August 4, 2021 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 August 1, 2021August 20, 2021 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 June 18, 2021 Copyright Law Internet Law

Little people, big lawsuits

The Washington Post reports on legal action taken by ordinary folk against Big IP Content Generating institutions for lifting and using “user-generated” content, i.e., pictures... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021June 28, 2021 Damages

“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 June 17, 2021 Copyright Law Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

Bag It

Remember Vuitton v. Dooney? It’s over. Reports the Shiny Style blog: A judge ruled in favor of Dooney & Bourke in the trademark dispute involving... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

Copyright in cease and desist letters? Not quite.

A law firm’s press release says: The US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects a lawyer demand letter... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

No joke

Noel Sheppard (via Insty) smells a rat: [T]he photo sharing website Flickr removed the Obama Joker picture that was later transformed into posters showing up in... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

Best of 2009: Properly classified — there’s no “significant doubt”

CORY DOCTOROW: Obama administration: releasing details of secret copyright treaty endangers”national security.” Er, what? Good question, Instapundit.  Click through — the original story is here, at... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Overreaching

Mourning Sonny

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 day of downhill skiing, we’d... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Buildings and IP

Manchester Cathedral, you’re driving me crazy

Originally posted 2007-06-14 11:42:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Manchester Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral — same thing. We’ve written in the past — well, not us,... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

Someone dropped in an extra zero, right? RIGHT?

It’s a month-old story, and how it got past us here notwithstanding, it’s not getting past us now.  Per the ABA Journal, remember the Bratz... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Fair Use

Righthaven Agonistes

Is all this copyright jurisprudence lollipops and rainbows? Let us reflect a little on what Righthaven has wrought, so far. Wired weighs in on the... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

More on the “secret copyright treaty”

Is it really that bad?  Last March I took a quick look at what some of the anti’s were saying, and focused mainly on the... 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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