
Big Green’s Ethiopian trademark problem
The Australian reports that earlier news about a resolution of Starbucks’ trademark problems with the Ethiopian coffee thing was perhaps over-caffeinated. UPDATE: Have things perked... Read more
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
The Australian reports that earlier news about a resolution of Starbucks’ trademark problems with the Ethiopian coffee thing was perhaps over-caffeinated. UPDATE: Have things perked... Read more
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
The increasingly ubiquitous Marc Randazza pronounces, on the INTA list: In doing some research on the new Attorney General nominee, I discovered that he was... Read more
The Jews take a worldwide day off from eating, and what happens when they sit down and pick up their forks and knives to dig... Read more
Last post: Copyright ridiculous. This post: Copyright sublime. From Wired (via Jane Coleman, who found it on Instapundit): U.S. lawmakers approved the creation of a... Read more
The online New York Law Journal (sub. required) reports on an important free speech case: Vesting a student association with virtually unbridled discretion in doling... Read more
Not a lot of time to blog these days but this Slate piece from Michael Kinsley is a must-read. Excerpt: [T]he Times believes that its... Read more
Slashdot reports: It appears that CBS and Fox have submitted DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for videos from the McCain campaign. The campaign is now... Read more
First published on May 12, 2010. A while ago, while obsessing about New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its obsession with turning what might have... Read more
(UPDATED, revised). That’s what Bob Cox is reporting in this story in the Examiner; more here. Google said it would not run anti-MoveOn ads because... Read more
The Kalashnikov rifle: Naked trademark licensing (“I take them into my hands and, my goodness, the marks are foreign,” [General Kalashnikov] said of the knockoffs... Read more
A while ago, while obsessing about New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its obsession with turning what might have once merely been viewed as functional... Read more