Volokh and comment thread on clickwraps and browsewraps and IP rights.
Protest To Use Of Premiership Goals
BBC: “Goal Footage Warning For Website” (website hosting video footage of soccer goals protested by Premier League in UK).
Railroad Alleges Dilution By Law Firm’s Commissioned Painting
A law firm representing railroad workers commissioned, among others, the image above, which depicts a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train. BNSF protested the usage alleging dilution. Demand letters and response linked to in this article from Public Citizen Litigation Group (which is representing the law firm).
Political False Advertising Fact Pattern
Phone records of candidate for office (a district attorney, running for congress) shows call to ‘fantasy sex’ phone line, lasting 1 minute or less. A second call is then made immediately to a similar phone number belonging to a government office, which number shares last seven digits with the first phone number.
National political party
They Grow Currants In New York?
“New Era Of The Recipe Burglar”
Food & Wine: “New Era of the Recipe Burglar” (discussion of protectability of food creations – including interview with Homaro Cantu of MOTO in Chicago).
Second Life Watch: Use In Commerce?
Second Life‘s economy, estimated to be $500k a month, is now the subject of a congressional investigation as to whether taxes are being paid on transactions being conducted on the site.
Second Life branding magazine here. HT Becky.
Second Life background here.
Be Prepared: Boy Scout Copyright Badge
AP: “Be Loyal, Kind and Don’t Steal Movies” (Boy Scouts adopt copyright protection badge). Ht Volokh.
And The Name Of The Elephant In The Room Is Miscegenation
In 1934, Upton Sinclair, ‘muck-raking’ novelist, was the Democratic candidate for governor of California. Sinclair had previously run for office as a socialist, and Sinclair referred to his platform as the EPIC movement: End Poverty In California.
The opposition defined Sinclair as a communist. Some in the movie industry filmed actors getting off of box
Does Buying Keywords Constitute Trademark Use? Yes and No and Yes and No
Prof Goldman reviews the latest case, Buying for the Home, LLC v. Humble Abode, LLC, 03-CV-2783 (JAP) (DNJ Oct 20, 2006), and, noting that recent cases have been alternating in their holdings, confidently predicts that because this case held that keyword buying is use in commerce, the next such case will hold that it