Worth a thousand words
How much use is fair use — i.e., permissible use — when it comes to graphics and photographs you “find” on the Internet? Not too... Read more
Tag: Copyright
Best of 2011: Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies
First posted September 28, 2011. There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?”... Read more
Not my money
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... Read more
Guest post: Not So Cheerful About Varsity Brands
[stextbox id=”info” caption=”Marc Whipple of the Legal Inspiration! Blog” image=”https://images.avvo.com/avvo/ugc/images/head_shot/standard/1034170_1486741391.jpg”]This is a special treat! In our line of work it isn’t necessarily a compliment to... Read more
Guest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball?
[stextbox id=”info”] See below for more information about my colleague Greg Winsky, who is just snarky enough to merit a guest post on LIKELIHOOD OF CONCLUSION... Read more
Bullish on royalties
The New York Post reports that the sculptor of the famous golden calf frozen in stampeding fury on lower Broadway — symbolizing the charge of... Read more
Rah rah raw
TTABlog declines to comment on S. Ct. cheerleader uniform decision. — TTABlog (@TTABlog) March 22, 2017 Indeed. LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® is also not ready to... Read more
The Copyright Act: It’s a law, dude
We don’t mince words at LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® regarding the misuse of copyright and trademark, but we’re having trouble finding anything wrong with this at-first-blush... Read more
Censorious fools
Cory Doctorow writes about how abuse of the copyright laws — using them as a method of privatized censorship — does creators of protected works... Read more
Best of 2011: Infinite loop
First posted (in updated form) on September 20, 2011.(Originally published on July 22, 2011; see update at bottom!) It can only mean one thing when... Read more
Digital Analogy: Behind the Scenes of Aereo
"Judge Roberts, I remember Sputnik. I knew Sputnik. Sputnik was a friend of mine. Judge Roberts, the respondent’s system is no Sputnik." Read more
Canada: Copyright law not meant to protect distribution networks
The Gray Blog reports that the Canadian Supreme Court has rejected an attempt — the sort made all day all over North America — to... Read more
Overblogged
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... Read more
“Aereo” smiths (part two)
In part one of this post I laid out the following propositions: (a) We operate in a common-law system, so want and expect judges to... Read more