Amy Harmon wrote an article in today’s NY Times entitled “A Corporate Victory, but One That Raises Public Consciousness.”   One quote stuck out for me:

“In 1998, the [Act] was passed with hardly any debate after heavy lobbying by the Walt Disney Company . . . “

This set off a memory.  With…

Now that my estate is assured of those 20 extra years, I am going to begin work on that novel I have been putting off.

Here’s the decision (via Copyfight via Lessig).

Dissent by Breyer, J.

Dissent by Stevens, J.

SCOTUS Blog commentary on the decision.

Copyfight and Law Meme will be burning up the blogosphere on this one.

Slashdot on it too.

Here’s a Wired.com article on Overpeer, the company which performs spoofing services for entertainment companies that wish to damage files.  My concerns remain. 

Someone registered a domain name which is a one-letter variation of my client’s famous trademark (same fact pattern as the GE case below, different client, this happens a lot).  One of the 3 elements I have to establish to prevail in a UDRP is bad faith.  Because registrants tend not to create written evidence of bad…

I represented General Electric in this UDRP victory over RaveClub Berlin (one of Mr. Zuccarini’s aliases).  It was a default but allow me to bask in the glow of a file that can be closed and sent to storage.

This is from National Law Journal’s “The Docket:”

Man says show, movie infringe on his name
A Hot Springs, Mont., man who legally changed his name to Jack Ass in 1997 has filed a lawsuit against Viacom International Inc., the parent company of MTV, producer of the Jackass television show and movie. In …

The Supreme Court denied cert  today in Ty, Inc.v. Publications Int’l Ltd ., 292 F.3d 512 (7th Cir. 2002) (Upholding fair use of BEANIE BABY marks in collectors’ publications, Posner., J.).