January 2005

Well, Winerized and Scoblized in one day.  And many emails, some from subscribers, some not.

To clarify and answer some FAQs on my post below:

1.  This was not an attack on RSS or full-text aggregators as a class.  My concern is with a specific type of unauthorized commercial use of my feed.

2.  It’s not

This website is published under a Creative Commons license that allows for non-commercial use, provided there is attribution.  Commercial use and derivative works are prohibited.

It was brought to my attention that a website named Bloglines was reproducing the Trademark Blog, surrounding it with its own frame, stripping the page of my contact info.  It

The Music Plagiarism Project from Columbia Law School is pretty amazing.  It assembles the important music copyright cases and provides background materials including audio files of plaintiff’s and defendant’s works, allowing you to play ‘You be the Judge.’

I was doing some international trademark research this week and the first place I looked was Gregory Guillot’s All About Trademarks.  It occurred to me that it is the first place I look for a lot of international trademark resources such as links to online searching and national trademark offices.  I have been remiss in never mentioning

Adidas, discoverer of the three stripe design, has sued Abercrombie and Fitch, purveyor of salacious reading material and boycott target, for allegedly infringing the three stripe design on sportswear.  The news stories don’t  identify the particular items involved other than to refer to running pants with parallel stripes down the pant leg – so maybe this

Infringing copies of GHETTOPOLY with a ‘street value’ of $2.5 million seized by Customs to be destroyed by the Feds (pending defendant’s appeal).  Via Smoking Gun.