Removal of a trademark logo and link is not ‘removal of copyright management information’ as barred by the DMCA. The District Court for New Jersey dimissed a copyright claim, interpretating ‘copyright management information’ as being part of an automated system, not part of a manual system (such as affixation of a copyright notice).
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RSS, Copyright, and Unfair Competition
YouTube and Google Video
YouTube.com provides short video downloads. It reportedly receives 8000 new videos a day. A lot of these videos are mash-ups of copyrighted material. A favorite in my house consists of the characters from Naruto singing the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory song.
Many of the videos on YouTube (and Google Video) are amateurish (in good
UGG BOOTS in Australia
‘Grey Market’ Textbook Case Settled
Google, MLK Likeness and ‘I Have A Dream’ Copyright
More On Registry-Watching: Apple Files For MOBILE ME
We’ve run several items on registry-watchers who speculate on coporate moves based on trademark filings. This week there is coverage of Apple’s application on MOBILE ME (from which it is inferred that Apple will bring out an IPOD phone). Some corporations deliberately file trademark applications in the ‘dummy’ names to frustrate this practice (See discussion
If You Are A Canadian IP Attorney . . .
. . . we would be happy to hear your views on the agreement described in this NY Times article, that bars use of footage from political debates on parody shows.
Can Recipes Be Copyrighted?
Via Kottke, a Washington Post article on protection of recipes
One should distinguish between a recipe, a textual rendering ofa recipe, and a compilation of recipes. Publications Intl. v. Meredith, 88 F.3d 473 (7th Cir. 1996) dealt with alleged infringement of a recipe book:
“The identification of ingredients necessary for the preparation of each dish