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Tag: Free Expression

Posted on March 12, 2022 Internet Law

The CDA “content” divide

When does an interactive website pass across the great divide of “content provider” versus “Internet service provider” under what’s left of the Communications Decency Act?... Read more

Posted on February 16, 2022 Internet Law

More on international law and the Web

Instapundit reports: YAHOO! HELPS TURN THE SCREWS: According to Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders), Information supplied by Yahoo! helped Chinese journalist Shi Tao get... Read more

Posted on January 22, 2022 Journalism

Not So Plain Dealing

Instapundit links to this teef-gnashing item from Michael Silence about this super-secret scandal, based on leaked documents, that the Cleveland Plain Dealer would for sure... Read more

Posted on November 26, 2021 Everything else

Revisiting the Black List

David Bernstein writes: [Northwestern Law Prof Martin] Redish concludes, and this Reviewer agrees, it was entirely appropriate — under the First Amendment, and also morally... Read more

Stop Islamization of America Logo
Posted on October 19, 2021 Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

Mark their words

Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs — two websites run by friends of mine who have very clearly articulated views about Islamic radicalism, and controversial ones... Read more

Posted on October 18, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law

Hitler on copyright

The “Downfall parodies” aren’t really parodies, in the legal sense.  But as this one demonstrates, “Hitler” does seem to understand something about copyright, law, IP... Read more

Posted on August 25, 2021 Blogging Free Expression

New Jersey Law Journal – Hands Off Blogs

I wrote this in the New Jersey Law Journal last week. Op-ed Hands Off Blogs Mandatory disclosure of payment to bloggers runs counter to free... Read more

Posted on July 21, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

On the wrong track, as usual

Jews for Jesus, the sleazy, misleading missionaries who crawl over Manhattan each summer, had to back off from their use of the MTA’s world-famous symbols.... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

The AP, copyright, and the bloggers

You can’t have missed the story, in all its agony. One weensy problem with the blogosphere: It’s so quick, so supple, so instantaneous, so plastic…... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Free Expression

Best of 2007: Ideological purity

First posted on January 24, 2007. Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday,... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Free Expression

Speech and — more? — speech re Russ Feingold

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... Read more

What, someone's picture is on this, too? Who knew?
Posted on June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

Cover banned?

Now this is an interesting twist on IP rights and wrongs.  It’s interesting, though, more as a sign of the desperation of the dead-tree media... 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

If You See Something, Say Something
Posted on June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Free Expression

New York’s MTA Has an IP Obsession

The New York Sun reports that New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has filed to register the phrase “If You See Something, Say Something” — its... 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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