Here’s one version: A link to a six year old article about United Airlines’ bankruptcy appeared on a Tribune newspaper’s website (why?). The traffic pushed it into a most-viewed box, which brought it to the attention of a “Google news search agent”(?). That brought it to the attention of Bloomberg News, which widely distributed
CBC Radio Documentary: “Who Owns Ideas?”
CBC: “Who Owns Ideas?“:
When you download music or text from the web, you may be innocently breaking the law. Jim Lebans, a producer with CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, looks at the tangled world of intellectual property and how the digital age is challenging ideas about who owns our culture.
Text of Decision in Warner Bros v RDR Books (Harry Potter Copyright Case)
How Would You Advise the RNC?
The RNC comes to you and they say they want to use these stockphotos:
in this video (the photos appears at 6:46 and 7:02 respectively):
The first photo seems to appear with the words ‘America will choose’ and the second photo appears with ‘prosperity.”
The iStockPhoto license defines “Prohibited Use” in part as:
“use or
“Google Slaps FindLaw In Effort to Crack Down On ‘Link Juice’
Money.cnn.com: “Google Slaps FindLaw In Effort to Crack Down On ‘Link Juice’:
“FindLaw, a subsidiary of the business information giant Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI), built Newell his Web site last spring and primed it to appear in major search engines for a fee of about $1,600 per month. It was such a success
Brouhaha Over Google EULA Too-ra-loo-rye Aye
PC Mag: All Your Content Are Belong To Us (Google amends somewhat overbroad license clause in Chrome EULA). Background for any ‘are belong to us‘ reference here).
Please Take This Genericism Survey
Long-time friend of the Trademark Blog, Pam Chestek, at her new blog, Property, Intangible, has written a genericism survey that she’d like you all to take.
Brand As Navigator: Google’s Chrome Search Engine
I downloaded the new Google Chrome Browser. The URL window functions as a search window if you type in a term that isn’t recognized as a URL. If I type DELTA or UNITED or LLOYDS per se into the URL windows of Safari and Firefox, they convert that to Delta.com, United.com and Lloyds.com respectively, which
You Can Follow the Micro TrademarkBlog on Twitter
If you have a Twitter account, you can follow ‘TrademarkBlog’ and get a headline plus url version of the Trademark Blog. Why would someone follow micro-blogs? So that they can follow many information sources at once.
Alabama: “Purse Guy” gets Two Years In Prison
TimesDaily.com: “‘Purse Guy’ gets two years in prison”:
U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler sentenced a Florence man to 24 months in prison and ordered him to pay $136,089 in restitution Thursday for selling counterfeit purses and other goods.
Dennis Oakley, 53, owner of two stores in the Shoals known as “The