Righthaven – Media Bloggers Association files amicus brief
I’ve written a little bit about the Righthaven lawsuits before. Now, as reported in the Las Vegas Sun, on behalf of the Media Bloggers Association... Read more
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
I’ve written a little bit about the Righthaven lawsuits before. Now, as reported in the Las Vegas Sun, on behalf of the Media Bloggers Association... Read more
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
Ara Rubyan sends along this link to Boing Boing: Josh sez, “The folks at BMC (Black Mustang Club) automotive forum wanted to put together a... Read more
I’ve been watching these guys at the MTA and their IP enforcement program for a while now. Once was for a client, who, regrettably, didn’t... Read more
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
We’re a little obsessed here with the rights of “unauthorized” resellers to use the trademarks that describe the stuff they’re reselling. So this UK domain... Read more
Nominative fair use — the “unauthorized” use of a trademark as a trademark specifically to invoke the trademark, as opposed to its “non-trademark” use to... Read more
In far-off Hong Kong, the Motion Picture Association has created a Boy Scout merit badge on copyright [original link lost, sorry — RDC]: Boy Scouts in Hong... Read more
Posted on August 6, 2009. Traverse Legal: Mary Roach has a great post at CircleID on an area that we have talked about extensively, namely, copyright... Read more
More pain, very little gain — besides for lawyers’ college funds — in the roiling world of trademark fair use. Originally posted 2012-09-10 06:00:30. Republished... Read more
Michael Atkins is beside himself with intellectual-property-enforcement frustration about the use of an image of the Seattle Space Needle — a tall pointy building what... Read more
Evan Brown reports (links added): The parties in the matter of Shell v. Devries, a case from the U.S. District Court for the District of... Read more
This was originally published on January 22, 2009: Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured... Read more
I’ve made a career here of tut-tutting the impolitic and brand-negating utterance of baseless cease and desist and other threatening letters based on IP infringement,... Read more