IPKat on Disney’s upcoming movie BAD SANTA and the concept of protection of traditional knowledge and folklore.

Miami Herald article on cybersquatting, including quote from John Barry (long list of UDRP cases involving him, here).

Via CRN.COM, a report that SCO will pay the Boies Schiller firm (the other law firm around here) approximately $9 million ($1 million in cash and stock valued at about $7.9 million) for its representation in the Linux dispute against IBM.

UPDATE: An article from Forbes.com indicating that on top of the $9 million…

NFL logo contact lenses available here.

Front page article in today’s Wall Street Journal on rivalry licensing, the practice by which Universities allow their sports team mascots to be seen defeated in some way by mascots of rival Universities (for a fee).  Depicted here, the Auburn Tiger strangling the Alabama elephant and vice versa.  One argument for allowing the practice is that if…

McDonalds has objected to Merriam-Webster Dictionary defining McJOB as a “low paying job that requires little skill.”

The use of SPAM as a word that means unwanted email is an example of tarnishment by metonymy.  Merriam-Webster’s definition of metonymy here. 

‘K Street’ is an HBO drama in which political consultants (and real-life husband and wife) James Carville and Mary Matalin play ‘slightly fictionalized’ versions of themselves.  The show trades on verisimilitude – Carville and Matalin interact with real politicians (playing themselves) and refer to real events that occured only weeks before air-date.  In the most…

If you clear copyrighted materials for a living then you may wish to read this Ninth Circuit case that applies the fair use test to various bits and pieces relating to Elvis (such as his appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show) that were used in a documentary.  Interesting dissent.

Elvis Presley Enterprises, et. al. v. Passport…