Don Draper is a character on the TV show “Mad Men.” You can follow Don Draper’s Twitter account. Maybe it’s infringing. Maybe it’s fan fiction. Maybe it’s authorized but the property owner denies it so it will go ‘viral.’ You can get dizzy thinking about this.
NY Times ‘All Things Trademark’ Article
The latest “what we think are trends in trademark law” article from the NY Times. The last one was in 2003.
“Kate Hudson Gets Sued for Stealing Product Information”
Businesspundit.com: “Kate Hudson Gets Sued for Stealing Product Information“:
“Fool’s Gold” star Kate Hudson has been sued by a firm that says hair care products she developed with hair stylist-to-the-stars David Babaii are based on ideas for using volcanic ash that the firm developed.
World’s Most Counterfeited Brand
Design You Trust: “World’s Most Counterfeited Fashion Brand”
HARI PUTTAR and the Lawsuit in India
Article about Warner Bros lawsuit against producers of Indian film Hari Puttar.
From the trailer, it sort of looks like “Home Alone”
“Could Net Radio’s Extinction Be Close?
WaPo: “Could Net Radio’s Extinction Be Close?“:
Faced with huge song royalty increases, Net radio may soon face extinction. That is according to Internet radio Webcaster Pandora’s founder Tim Westergren. He told the Washington Post his popular music Webcasting site is about to go offline because of increases in royalties his company must
Text of Io v Veoh DMCA Ruling and EFF Commentary
EFF: “Required Reading for “User-Generated Content” Sites“:
In an important ruling handed down yesterday, a federal district court threw out a copyright infringement suit brought by adult video producer Io Group against Veoh, concluding that the video hosting site qualifies for the DMCA safe harbor. The ruling should be required reading for the
UK iPhone Ad Banned for False Advertising
SlashDot: “iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK“:
“Apple has been running an iPhone ad saying ‘all parts of the internet are on the iPhone’, but it had to be withdrawn after Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority ruled that it gave ‘a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone’ because the
Cash vs Credit Prices on Gas Station Signage
Newsday: Gas Station owners say Cuomo’s charges are wrong:
Particularly grating on the retailers was the statement in Cuomo’s news releases saying the stations “engaged in false advertising by only listing the lower cash prices on their street view signage in order to lure patrons to the pump.” A story last week about the
IPC Paper on Sunrise Mechanisms for gTLDs
The Intellectual Property Constitutency of ICANN has released this paper on sunrise mechanisms for opening new generic top level domain names.
Read this document on Scribd: IPC perfect sunrise