Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
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 once merely been viewed as…
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…
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 municipal signage or insignia into…
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 complaining about YouTube’s DMCA policy…
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 in? Their enemies want to…
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 cabinet-level position of copyright czar…
(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 they supposedly violated its trademark…
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 the judge who penned the…
The Kalashnikov rifle: Naked trademark licensing (“I take them into my hands and, my goodness, the marks are foreign,” said of the knockoffs the Soviet Union once championed. “Yes, they…
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 up since then? Or simmered…
Not a lot of time to blog these days but this Slate piece from Michael Kinsley is a must-read. Excerpt: he Times believes that its First Amendment right to speak…
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 out funds for campus organizations…
Ron Coleman
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