A collection of C’s eating the next letter in the logo. Play guess the logo here. Via Be A Design Group.
Gray market in Digital Goods?
Death in the Afternoon: Gray Market For Digital Goods?
Google Penalizes SEO Company
Matt Cutts: Google confirms penalizing SEO company.
RED CROSS in Canada
Cory Doctorow on the Canadian Red Cross policing the RED CROSS symbol.
L’Oreal Obtains Protection For Scent In France
Something like a holy grail for the perfume industry has been achieved: Agenda Inc. reports that L’Oreal has persuaded a French Court to provide ‘authorial rights’ to one of its scents. I look forward to French law bloggers discussing this case.
UPDATE: IPkat says that this decision on scent stinks.
More On ‘Trademark Attribution For Dummies’
By this point, I feel bad for the person at Wiley who wrote the letter protesting the use of ____ FOR DUMMIES in a blog post title. BuzzMachine is now organizing a protest encouraging bloggers to end their posts with a FOR DUMMIES. Details here.
Background here.
Without speaking to this specific case
Name, Likeness and Truthiness
Steven Colbert either coined the term TRUTHINESS or is most responsible for its popularization. He introduced it as his ‘word of the day’ in the first episode of his show THE COLBERT REPORT in October and the concept of ‘feeling the truth’ caught on. By the end of the year, the American Linguists Society,
New IP Blog: COUNTERFEIT CHIC
New blog on fashion copycats, knock-offs and counterfeits, by IP law professor Susan Scafidi, who has never, she alleges, knowingly purchased a fake, except for research or educational purposes, of course: COUNTERFEIT CHIC. Good stuff – subscribed.
Trademark Attribution For Dummies
One of Jason Calcanis’ blogs at Weblogs, Inc. Network, used the term SUPER BOWL GUIDE FOR DUMMIES as the title of a single blog post.
No, it did not receive a demand letter from the owners of the SUPER BOWL mark.
It got a demand letter from Wiley, owners of the FOR DUMMIES mark.
Perfect 10, By Filing DMCA Complaint, Provides Pretense For Running Image Of Woman In Lingerie
Perfect 10 takedown demand to Google here. A bizarre document. If you use some of the model’s names as Google search terms, (ALENA DRAZNA for example) then Google helpfully links to the DMCA complaint at the bottom of the search results. No, that is not how I learned of this, I learned of it from