Sometime after the jazz musician Cecil McBee played in Japan for the first time, someone opened a CECIL McBEE clothing store there and now it’s a successful chain. McBee has sued in Japan under a theory of right of personality, with mixed success. A front page article in today’s Wall Street Journal on the on-going
A lawyer had problem getting AOL software to work, then he trouble getting through to customer service. So he sued AOL in small claims court in New York. AOL tried to enforce a choice of forum clause in its ‘click-wrap’ agreement. The judge declined to enforce the clause. The lawyer claims that he indicated to AOL
Front page article in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled “New Services Are Making It Easier To Hide Who Is Behind Web Sites” (paid sub required), describing the rise of domain proxy services to shield whois data. I don’t think that proxy services are inherently evil – the services tend to cooperate with legitimate requests from
Press release re WIPO conveining a diplomatic confernece to streamline trademark registration procedure and revise the Trademark LAw Treaty. Start making a list of your pet peeves.
Speculation re that Apple Computers will pay massive settlement to Apple Records for use of APPLE in connection with iTunes, via MacWorld.
This BBC article reports that half of all pills labeled as VIAGRA sold over the Internet are counterfeit. What astounds me is that half of the VIAGRA pills sold online are real.
Interactive Advertising Bureau publishes Guidelines on Use of Pop-Up Ads.
Super-hero crime-fighting team Microsoft and Amazon team up to sue spammers, via News.com.
Registrant of GATWICK.COM accuses BAA, operator of Gatwick Airport, of dirty tricks, and accuses of WIPO of bias in selecting UDRP panelists, via The Register.
The complex fact pattern (put forth by one side’s attorney) seems too complex to come to any sort of conclusion but I do have one reaction regarding the accusations
Survivor, the band (biggest hit – Eye of the Tiger), loses on summary judgment (upheld by 7th Circuit) against CBS, with regard to CD products for the SURVIVOR TV show.
Frank Sullivan v. CBS, No. 02-2058 (7th Circuit, Sept 24, 2004).
People who downloaded Survivor songs on iTunes also bought music by Kroskus, Ambrosia, ZZ