Zombie on zombie action
The Escapist (via Punning Pundit): In a battle that refuses to die, publisher Capcom filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against the Dawn of the Dead film... Read more
Tag: Overreaching
Best of 2008: “The Color Purple” (April)
This was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to... Read more
Holding Caulfield
I could have linked to a million stories on this, but Publishers Weekly seems appropriate*: Finding that author J.D. Salinger is “likely to succeed on the... Read more
The second time as farce
On the occasion of the S&L Vitamins v. Australian Gold trial, I reposted what I wrote here six months earlier about the first of these... Read more
No copyright in the fact of your existence
Whether someone else’s movie includes your building in Times Square (a properly defunct trademark claim) or, as Marty Schwimmer reports, your pinball machine in the... Read more
Companies versus their fans
Walter Olson: The famous maker of candies and candy-dispensers is suing the owners of the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia in Northern California, claiming that... Read more
Web 2.0, but nothing’s changed
Remember the silliness over the attempt by a certain attorney to secure trademark rights for CYBERLAWYER? The notable part about how that went down was... Read more
The color purple
Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to the use of the color purple in association... Read more
Tail wagging dog?
Or maybe not. Evan Brown reports about a lawsuit by a high-end computer manufacturer, Alienware, over one of those “free laptop” promotions that it claims... Read more
RIAA lawsuit decision matrix
BBspot finds the Rosetta Stone of the RIAA’s litigation strategy. This “explains” a lot. Hat tip to Boing Boing. Originally posted 2012-07-23 14:01:33. Republished by... Read more
Jews for Jesus* v. free speech: update
Maybe if Steve Brodsky or the Whistleblower published pornography or scandalous charactures of Dick Cheney or were uploading music files the self-appointed guardians of free speech would have something to say about what's going on here. Read more
Unilateral copyright law
Eugene Volokh joins the pile–on regarding a website that claims to exempt its contents from the liberating effects of the fair use doctrine. The North... Read more
European trademark law swinging from vines
Unlike in the good old U.S. of A., Tarzan’s yell doesn’t cut it in Europe — at least not as a trademark: Tarzan’s distinctive yell... Read more
Major League Baseball – SDNY Balks?
A potentially troubling (from the teams’ point of view) thought from the Southern District of New York in a case brought by Major League Baseball... Read more