An account of a rights dispute involving Disney over Winnie the Pooh from LAMag.com.  Thanks to Bag and Baggage for this.

I just got an email from my friend, emailharvest@email.com, offering to sell me software for $40 which will harvest 100,000 email addresses in an hour.  However, just so I don’t get this company wrong, there is a disclaimer: “We are strongly against continuously sending unsolicited emails to those who do not wish to receive…

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.