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Complaint challenging New York City’s BLM “Mural”

Ron Coleman Jul 24, 2020 13 Comments

Filed this morning, despite ECF’s best efforts to stop me (which is why there’s no header – the case “opening” took place at around 11 last night but ECF couldn’t…

Section 230

You are the product

Ron Coleman May 27, 2020 0 Comments

Great white paper on this issue by ?@RonColeman?. If you’re really concerned about this, dive deeper before marking arguments. ?? https://t.co/lyGkhNKqHL — Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) May 27, 2020

Journalism

Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege

Ron Coleman Oct 1, 2013 4 Comments

The New York State Bar Association’s Bright Ideas journal (Vol. 22, No. 2) 17 (Fall 2013) has just published my essay about shield laws entitled, Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege.…

IP Overreaching

Best of 2012: SOPA box

Ron Coleman Dec 20, 2012 0 Comments

Originally published on January 18, 2012. You don’t need a link to find out what’s going with the SOPA “Blackout,” or all that other stuff. It’s all over the place,…

Enforcement

SOPA box

Ron Coleman Jan 18, 2012 8 Comments

You don’t need a link to find out what’s going with the SOPA “Blackout,” or all that other stuff. It’s all over the place, beyond those with a special interest…

IP Overreaching

The PROTECT IP Act: We’re all infringers now

Ron Coleman Jul 7, 2011 29 Comments

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 a letter opposing the PROTECT…

Copyright Law

Unsettling settlement

Ron Coleman Feb 17, 2011 10 Comments

Two years ago I expressed my own criticism, and later rounded up a number of other views, of the case brought by J.D. Salinger against a “sequel” to The Catcher…

Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

That special something that says “infringement”

Ron Coleman Dec 13, 2010 2 Comments

Paul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking…

Free Expression

Speech and — more? — speech re Russ Feingold

Ron Coleman Nov 5, 2010 0 Comments

Don’t say they’re anything but — what’s the term? — “fair and balanced” over at Randazza’s Legal Satyricon blog when it comes to the post-mortem on the end of Russ…

Blogging Free Expression Politics

I’ve got your blogger disclosure right here

Ron Coleman Oct 29, 2010 0 Comments

Via Instapundit: IRA STOLL: Vanguard Blogger Is Democratic Donor. “The Vanguard mutual fund official responsible for the pre-election Vanguard blog post crediting the Obama stimulus bill passed by Congressional Democrats…

Rights of Publicity and Personality

Defacing “The Face”?

Ron Coleman May 27, 2010 2 Comments

Genius! Plus studliness! Yes, in one post on his Licensing Law Blog, Richard Bergovoy brings together some of my favorite things: Jimi Hendrix-related intellectual property disputes Princess Diana-related intellectual property…

Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

Mark their words

Ron Coleman May 16, 2010 2 Comments

Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs — two websites run by friends of mine who have very clearly articulated views about Islamic radicalism, and controversial ones about what to do about…

Literature

Taking the catcher out of the rye

Matthew David Brozik Apr 28, 2010 9 Comments

On July first of last year, the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York (hotbed of intellectual property law jurisprudence), granted a…

Copyright Law

Mash this

Ron Coleman Mar 7, 2010 3 Comments

But can you, really, dance to it? Alan Wexelblat says yes, but the copyright part? Some pretty complicated steps: I think that modern dance music, particularly the mash-up , is…

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