Wolfgang’s Vault streams concerts from the Golden Age (Fillmore, etc) and sells memorabilia. It identifies here what it purports to own, including the master tapes of the concerts, and copyrights in its memorabilia (and it even solicitis licensing) The site purchased the archives of rock promoter Bill Graham from Clear Channel Communications in 2002.
Today
2006
A Lot Of Press For The Apple iPhone, Which Doesn’t Exist
What Happens If I Use The R In A Circle And I Don’t Have A Registration?
Sometimes nothing happens (via 43(b)log).
Media Companies Plan Rival To YouTube?
Int Herald Tribune:
“Now, a handful of giant media companies, like NBC Universal, News Corp., Viacom and possibly CBS, are close to announcing a new Web site that will feature some of their best-known television programming and other clips in an attempt to build a business for distributing video on the Internet to rival…
Free Website Plagiarism/Infringement Search
Copyscape provides a free ‘website plagiarism search’ in which you enter a URL, and the search returns pages that reproduce text from that URL. Play with it and tell me what you think.
Apparently I Am A Thlogger
The Small Business Review interviewed me about blogging and identifies The Trademark Blog as a Thought Leader Blog, or THLOG. Now there’s a term that rolls off the tongue.
Fame and Wii-nown
PopWink discusses neologisms arising from the popularity of Nintendo’s Wii gaming platform. Given that I am not inclined to camp out in front of BestBuy, so far we are Wii-thout.
KaZaa Made Me Do It? Class Action Against Sharman
ArsTechnica: “RIAA Defendant Targets Kazaa In New Lawsuit” (Someone who had been sued by the RIAA for music downloading, sues Kazaa file-sharing software provider Sharman, for, I suppose, inducing infringement). HT RealTimeIntellect.
“Michael Crichton Slurs A Critic”
Brendan Nyhan (author of ‘Spinsanity’): “Michael Crichton Slurs A Critic,” in which the Small Penis Rule in Libel law is discussed.
WSJ Article On Counterfeit-Spotting
Wall St Journal today, page one (no free online version): “Gumshoe’s Intuition: Spotting Counterfeits At Port Of Antwerp” (profile of the ‘best counterfeit goods inspector in the world”).