TechCrunch: “Good News, Bad News at GooTube”
Good Morning Silicon Valley: “YouTube Hopes Classy Brits Jumpstart Its Gentrification Plan.”
Washngton Post: “YouTube Struggles Despite Dominance”
2007
More On The Big Game
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Ambush Marketing
San Francisco Chronicle: “NFL Marketers Want ‘Big Game’ Trademark”:
“One way that advertisers who aren’t NFL sponsors typically attach themselves to the Super Bowl is simply to refer to it as “The Big Game.” As in, “Get your flat-screen TV in time for the Big Game.”
What is a generic term for most people becomes…
THE DIG v. DIGG
By Marty Schwimmer on
Lucas Films has a registration for THE DIG, a video game from 1995, used copies of whichI found for sale on eBay and on Vintagegaming.org.
DIGG is an archetypical ‘user content’ website – it is a news and information site listing stories from all over the web, based on voting by Digg members. Perhaps you’ve…
I Would Have Gotten Away With It If Not For That Pesky ITunes
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright
A reviewer for Grammophone puts a Liszt CD performed by the last pianist Joyce Hatto, into iTunes. ITunes identifies it as Liszt alright, but somebody else as the performer. And the uncovering of a high profile incident of plagiarism in concert music had begun.
The rest of the Hatto story in text form via Stereophile…
“Sex.com Hijacker Pleads Poverty”
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Domain Names
MercuryNews.com: “Sex.com hijacker pleads poverty after fleeing to Mexico“:
“A man who siphoned millions of dollars from a pornography Web site and fled to Mexico cried poor Monday and asked a judge to erase the $65 million he owes the rightful owner of Sex.com.
Stephen Michael Cohen was released from prison in December…
Carl Oppedahl on ETEAS, Paper and Madrid
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Trademark Practice
Carl Oppedahl practices trademark and patent law from beautiful offices perched in the Rockies, and from that vantage point, he monitors the online infrastructure of the PTO. He maintains a listserv concerned with the Madrid Protocol (subscribe here) and posted the following, presenting interesting statistics on ETEAS, paper filings and Madrid (reprinted…
Text Of Apple/Cisco Statement On Settlement
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Miscellany
Full text of statement:
SAN JOSE and CUPERTINO, California—February 21, 2007—Cisco and Apple® today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the “iPhone” trademark. Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the “iPhone” trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted,…
Another Perez Hilton Lawsuit
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright
THe Smoking Gun: Lawsuit Over Topless Aniston Photo.
India: INTEL v. INTEL
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in International
Zee News: “Intel’s Namesake (sic) Restrained From Using Its Trademark”
“The Delhi High Court has restrained a local company from using Intel Corporation’s registered trademark ‘Intel’ and asked it to give compensation to the global chip maker for the infringement. ”
NHL Policy On Use Of Videos
New Tee Vee: “Is NHL Putting YouTube On Ice?”
“The NHL, which gained nearly universal praise for its decision to allow widespread use and sharing of highlight clips on YouTube, seems to be putting the practice of allowing embedding on ice, with some NHL clips on YouTube now sporting the line Embedding disabled…