Blog reader Anthony Tambourino writes in to point us to this Slashdot article and accompanying discussion on the open source project Mozilla and its on-going efforts to convince the world that an open-source project can still have enforceable trademarks.

NY Times withdraws DMCA protest against parody correction page.  Coverage on parodist’s blog here, including link to repsonse to demand letter.

Ben Edelman, (who, I am happy to say, is brought in to consult our firm’s clients on ‘computer forensic’ matters on occasion), responds to my previous item about the value of a generic domain name, specifically ailine-tickets.com:

When a domain name is a single word, or when multiple words of a domain name

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A consortium of communications companies including Nokia, Vodafone, Microsoft and Orange, are asking that ICANN approve its application for a mobile-phone oriented top level domain.

News report here.  Slashdot rumination here.

Calder.mobile from the Guggenheim depicted above.

All nine counts of MasterCard’s suit against Ralph Nader for his ‘priceless’ parody ad gets dismissed on summary judgment.

Here, Instapundit reports on a protest by the NY Times against a Times parody.

Try mooter.com, now in beta.

A recent article from the Times has been making the rounds reporting that several domain names, such as TRUCK.COM and BEEF.COM have sold for high amounts.

Coincidentally, I recently discovered that LookSmart has posted online an article I wrote for Brandweek in February 2000 entitled “Why The Splurge On Generic Domain Names.”  Re-reading…

Interesting article on the history of shopping malls in America, via The New Yorker.  Blog readers following the development of the law of ‘brand as navigator’ (the catchphrase I apply to domain name, meta-tag and keyword cases), know that an implicit question in these cases is: who owns the traffic?  Two bits in the…