Copyright – LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Worth a thousand words

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

How much use is fair use — i.e., permissible use — when it comes to graphics and photographs you “find” on the Internet? Not too […]

Blogging

Persia purge

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Remember how assiduously copyright owners went after services that made Hollywood entertainment “family friendly” against creators’ wishes? Now do Iran.

Digital Rights Management

Not my money

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Last June, blogging about my presentation to the Copyright Society on the Righthaven litigation, I wrote the following: This brings us to the issue of […]

Law Practice and Profession

Overblogged

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Ron Coleman

We wouldn’t that happening to you or to me. So this week, while I am guest-blogging at Overlawyered, I will probably not have all that […]

Roundups

Going bananas after Star Athletica

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Sometimes a banana costume isn’t just a banana costume. At least not in the Third Circuit. #copyright

Costumes and Clothing

Fight for your right to parody. Or don’t.

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Matthew David Brozik

Sometimes, just when a copyright dispute is getting very interesting, the parties go and do the unthinkable: They resolve their differences like reasonable people, and […]

Fair Use

Digital Analogy: Behind the Scenes of Aereo

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Matthew David Brozik

“Judge Roberts, I remember Sputnik. I knew Sputnik. Sputnik was a friend of mine. Judge Roberts, the respondent’s system is no Sputnik.”

Humor

“Tolerated use”

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Tim Wu (via Glenn Reynolds) says that we have to deal with the fuzzy logic of copyright enforcement in order properly to understand how copyright […]

Enforcement

Guest post: Not So Cheerful About Varsity Brands (Best of 2017)

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Marc Whipple

Originally published on Match 28, 2017. So last Wednesday (March 22, 2017, if you’re joining us late) the Supreme Court of the United States issued its […]

Fashion Law

Guest post: Not So Cheerful About Varsity Brands

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Marc Whipple

So last Wednesday (March 22, 2017, if you’re joining us late) the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Star Athletica, LLC v. […]

Fashion Law

Rah rah raw

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Ron Coleman

TTABlog declines to comment on S. Ct. cheerleader uniform decision. — TTABlog (@TTABlog) March 22, 2017 Indeed. LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® is also not ready to […]

Costumes and Clothing

Norman Blagman Versus the Whole Digital Music Industry: Round 1 to Blagman.

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Matthew David Brozik

I can’t write a better introductory sentence than Judge Andrew Carter of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York did […]

Distribution systems

The PROTECT IP Act: We’re all infringers now

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Glenn Reynolds links to this story: Dozens of law professors: PROTECT IP Act is unconstitutional: An ideologically diverse group of 90 law professors has signed […]

IP Overreaching

Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Ron Coleman

There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?” in VentureBeat: Ten years ago, […]