YouTube, other websites and the DMCA
Lee Gesmer at MassLawBlog explains why the hullaballoo about YouTube’s exposure to copyright liability is overstated. I agree with his analysis and have lots of... Read more
Tag: Overreaching
Sealed with a fist
I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which really should both... Read more
Trademark infringement: Just say no
Trademark litigators and enforcement people (especially in anticounterfeiting) frequently analogize to the War on Drugs. You can’t really ever stop the flow of fake Vuitton... Read more
That special something that says “infringement”
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... Read more
The entrepreneurship of trademark bullying
I figured I must have written somewhere about that PTO trademark bullying thing — or if I didn’t, I am sure I linked to someone... Read more
Nothing gained?
UPDATE: I have further thoughts about what is almost certainly the real motivating factor behind Jones Day’s actions in connection with their obviously frivolous lawsuit... Read more
Baseball been very, very good to lawyers
Do you remember the lawsuit by Major League Baseball over the use of — well, not statistics, exactly, but the rights of publicity in baseball... Read more
Restaurant knockoffs
Michael Atkins writes about the frustrations of a restaurant owner who seems to think — oddly, for someone who’s already hired a lawyer — he... Read more
SUPER BOWL® Trademark Watch and Contest I
Every year it’s the same thing: Several weeks before the Super Bowl®, people and businesses wishing to promote events related to the timing of the... Read more
No “30% solution”
Here I am, sitting 44 stories above the Garment District itself (when I’m not standing under its immortal needle, shown below), and I needed Staci... Read more
Trademark rights in interdigitization
Nick Daly drops me a note to the effect that one Jay-Z, gazillionaire rhyming scatologist, has been sued by a professional perspirer and leaping stage... Read more
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
Ban that man!
London’s Times: People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week.Internet... Read more
Perpetual perfidy
Instapundit notes an article in the New York Times arguing for the provision for more government gasoline to pour on the fire of IP-overreach — perpetual copyright. Glenn Reynolds... Read more