BENEDICTXVI.COM was registered April 1 of this year.  POPEBENEDICTXVI.COM was registered in February.

Update: much coverage on ‘Pope-squatting.’

Via cnn.com, designer of W ’43 logo sues Republican National Committee for use of W 04 logo, alleging that he had pitched his design to RNC merchandising licensee, Spalding Group.

I attempted to go The Spalding Group’s store which is really at georgewbushstore.com to see a copy of its W 04 logo (no luck). …

This is primarily a G-Rated blog, although some material is PG-13, some is rated R, and never anything NC-17. We’ve shown one female nipple but it was made of terry cloth and therefore hard to determine the appropriate audience.

The NY Times reports that the MPAA, owner of certification trademarks for the ratings…

Via Search Engine Journal, an article re Googles filing of a trademark infringement complaint against Froogles, and a copy of the complaint via Search Engine Watch.

St. Petersburg Times discussion of dispute between Pernod (distributor of HAVANA CLUB outside the U.S.)  and Matusalem, over its use of SPIRIT OF CUBA for rum.

See you next week.

LA Times article on Google’s use of third-party news for its Google News service.  Of interest: AP is asking Google to license its content.

I’ve been thinking some more about group annotation of legal texts and I think that substantive law-oriented groups such as The Copyright Society, or the practice committees of the various bar associations would be naturals to experiment with (and coerce members to contribute to) wiki-type annotation and linkification technology.  See here for more details.