DM News.com on:  “Will Paid Inclusion Be Banished?”, reporting moves by MSN and Ask Jeeves away from practice of entities paying for incusion in search engine results (as opposed to payment for advertisments alongside search engines results).

Background FTC paper on paid inclusion

Here is a press release announcing the auction of the domain name KERRYEDWARDS.COM.  Bidding starts at $150,000.  We are told that the current registrant is really named Kerry Edwards, which would be a complete defense to cyber-squatting with regard to his registration and use of the domain name. 

Google has introduced a feature in its toolbar that appears to by-pass the ‘fill-in’ function in the address bar of Internet Explorer,  and allows you to type in a name (no www. or TLD) and it takes you to where it guessed you wanted to go.  You have to have downloaded Google toolbar, but you…

The Register reports on a dispute between the licensees of the LOTR property and an email service at shiremail.com.  The article’s discussion of the 1000+ year history of the word SHIRE is interesting, but it downplays a bit too much the fact that the proprietor of shiremail.com appeared at one time to operate under  the name PLANET

The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Law, by Landes and Posner, thanks to Volokh for the link.

Somehow the urban myth circulated that there is a Code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act (which doesn’t exist).  Website operators got it into their heads that if they cited Code 431.322.12, they could bar from their sites whomever they wanted, such as law enforcement officers or trademark attorneys.

In any event, I noted here a…

Zippy The Pinhead on fair use, via Copyfight.

Official Zippy site.

A press release having something to do with DotComGuy auctioning his name or something.  Probably not worth your time if you’re busy.