Washington Post article about the real-life Marriotts upset about a GQ spoof about the fictional Marriot (one t) sisters, a parody of New York’s fabulous Hilton sisters.

Snapnames, purveyor of the Snapback product, and would-be joint-purveyor of the Wait List Service for expired domain names, puts out a good summary of the state of the domain name industry available here.  Highlights from the most recent issue: after falling for many months, the total of .com, .net and .info names might finally…

Sometimes you wake up in the morning thinking: “I’m going to sue somebody today, I just don’t know who.”  It is for just this moment that there is a John Doe Order – an ex parte order from a Court allowing a remedy such as seizure, where a specific defendant cannot be identified, and the…

This Australian article via Dave:  The Berman bill (see prior posts) which proposes to legalize certain forms of hacking of users’ computers by a copyright owner in order to prevent unauthorized duplication of files on P2P networks, would run afoul of Australian law which states in pertinent part: “Under section 9a of…

Check out the item for Monday August 5 entitled “Oh God” here. 

In some ways, the blogosphere resembles a cocktail party, as a joke works its way around the room.  The Nigerian bit had a multiplier effect which produced ten times the normal hit rate.

Thanks to Ernie for the link to the Government’s response brief in Eldred v. Reno.

Now there is neonapster.com.  But there may no one left to defend the NAPSTER mark according to this cnn.com article.

The owners of buildings in Times Square sued the producers of the movie “Spider-Man.”  The film digitally modified the billboards on those buildings deleting the ads which appeared, replacing them with other ads.  When I first heard of the suit, my reaction was “they would have been sued if they hadn’t removed the ads.”  Spider-Man…