FUBU (its founders using the acronym of “For US, By Us”), sells clothing under the 05 mark, where the 05 is depicted as a numeral on a sports jersey.  It turns out that pro athletes (Gretzky being the exception) don’t use numbers starting with a 0, so FUBU was able to build some distinctiveness in the number.  A…

Thursday’s Wall Street Journal has an article on “spoofed songs” on file-sharing services such as Morpheus or Kazaa.  The article suggests that the record companies are now uploading defective versions of their own songs (3 minutes of static for example), so as to frustrate users from utilizing the free services.  The “major record labels neither…

Janis Ian on how she makes more money because of downloading, via Slashdot.org.

The inaugural copy of The Trademark Insider is available for download from NameProtect.  The issue contains the 2001 annual rankings of U.S. trademark firms (Oblon Spivak led with 2,361 applications filed, the firm where I had been a partner, Fross Zelnick, fell to second with 1,289).  First quarter numbers for 2002 are provided as well…

Apparently women walk around naked at the Burning Man Festival, held annually in the Nevada desert.  Someone filmed some naked women there in order to sell a video.  Now the organizers of the festival are suing the video’s producers under, among other theories, invasion of privacy.  It’s interesting that someone can walk around naked…

You have another three days to see Greenpeaces’s use of this parody of Exxon’s ESSO logo , which use was enjoined by a French court, according to this Findlaw article. 

Bret Fausett if the ICANN Blog has penned an essay, “If I Were Stratton Sclavos,” (CEO of Verisign, domain name registry and registrar).  It’s longer than the essay I would have written which would have been “Stick to digital certs.”

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.