Warner Chappell music apologizes to programmer for song lyric search tool.
‘Let Them Sing It For You’
David Post thinks that this tool from Swedish radio named ‘LET THEM SING IT FOR YOU’ is a copyright violation.
‘False Statements About Trademark License Are Actionable”
43(B)log discusses Northern District Illinois case: ‘False Statements About Trademark License Are Actionable.’
Pooh and The Termination Notice
Ninth Circuit decides complex case interpreting copyright termination under the 1989 CTEA (Sonny Bono act). From the decision:
This copyright action arises from a termination notice sent
by the appellant to the appellee, seeking to recapture rights to
various characters created by her grandfather, Alan Alexander
Milne, who authored the “Winnie-the-Pooh” children’s books.
Milne originally
Newsweek on Search Engine Optimization
Blog Content Theft: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Micro Persuasion’s post entitled “Blog Content Theft, reporting that two blogs, one named ‘Surferdiary.com Advertising Blog” and one named “Podcast Broadcast,” were re-publishing word-for-word Micro Persuasion’s content.
Here’s Surferdiary.com’s post entitled ‘Blog Content Theft.”
Here’s Podcast Broadcast’s post entitled ‘Blog Content Theft.’
7th Circuit Peer to Peer Case
BMG Music v. Gonzalez, 05-11314 (7th Cir Dec. 9, 2005) (Easterbrook, J.)
UPDATE: Prof. Patry discusses BMG Music v. Gonzalez.
Surrealist Logo
So it turns out that Salvador Dali designed the CHUPA CHUPS logo.
Law Review Article on Initial Interest Confusion
Initial Interest Confusion: Standing at the Crossroads of Trademark Law by Jennifer Rothman, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 27, p. 105, 2005,
Abstract:
While the benchmark of trademark infringement traditionally has been a demonstration that consumers are likely to be confused by the use of a similar or identical trademark to identify the goods or services
DYKES ON BIKES Ride To Publication
TARR shows that DYKES ON BIKES (filed by a lesbian biker group) has been approved for publication. Background on the issue (whether members of a group can register a ‘scandalous’ pejorative term that applies to that group) here.