Get CLE Credits! See me twirl plates on sticks while humming “Saber Dance” by Khachaturian! From the NY Law School website:
On November 2, 2007, the Amateur Hour Conference (www.nyls.edu/amhr) will convene leaders in business, law and technology to address the opportunities and challenges of user-generated creativity to traditional media, entertainment law, and business.
Counterfeit Chic: Knockoff News 70
Counterfeit Chic: “Knockoff News 70”
Dot Name: Relationshp Between Cybercrime And Paid Whois?
Wired: “Dot-Name Becomes Cybercrime Haven”
“The domain name system has grown bigger than it was ever planned to be, is doing more than it was ever intended to do and does it proudly,” Evron said. “But the governance around it has become profit-based, and we have no fallback system to handle criminal organizations
9th Cir: You May Continue To Discuss Trademarks Amongst Yourselves
Freecycle Network v. Oey – Defendant stated that Freecycle Network’s FREECYCLE mark was generic. District Court issues an injunction that such claims were a violation of the Lanham Act without doing much of an analysis of any particular provision of the Lanham Act. People like me participated as amici pointing out various problems with the
Settlement in Seattle Furniture Trade Dress Dispute
Seattle Trademark Lawyer: “Bourne Ultimatum: Vancouver Importer Settles Trade Dress Case.”
Prof Lessig on the Flickr/Virgin/Creative Commons Suit
Prof Lessig: “On the Texas Suit Against Virgin and Creative Commons.”
“Slashdot has an entry about a lawsuit filed this week by parents of a Texas minor whose photograph was used by Virgin Australia in an advertising campaign. The photograph was taken by an adult. He posted it to Flickr under a CC-Attribution
Separation of Church and Brand?
The Seattle Trademark Lawyer has a post on Kerusso, a seller of Christian-themed t-shirts. Several of its reported best-sellers are based on well-known trademarks. STL points to two Ninth Circuit cases, the Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. v. Penguin Books USA, Inc., 109 F.3d 1394, 1405 (9th Cir. 1997), and the Barbie Girl case, Mattel,
Lawsuit Over Use of Flickr Photo – And Creative Commons Is Named
Dallas News: “… Mom Sues Virgin Mobile Over Teen’s Photo”
What would you do if a company grabbed a goofy picture of your kid off the Internet, slapped some snarky text on it and used it to sell mobile phone service half a world away?
Susan Chang decided to sue.
Extremely muddled legal discussion
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Jack Thompson v Take Two
I’m late to reporting about the, well, maybe vendetta is the right word, for the on-going dispute between lawyer Jack Thompson and video game publisher Take Two, which distributes Grand Theft Auto. Take Two has apparently sued Thompson in the past over ‘nuisance’ lawsuits, and now Thompson alleges that Take Two has modeled a