A Merrow is primarily a surname and unregistrable. TTablog here.
Perhaps “Happy Birthday To You” Is In The Public Domain
Robert Brauneis: Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song:
Happy Birthday to You” is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. Many – including Justice Breyer in his dissent in Eldred v. Ashcroft – have portrayed it as an unoriginal work that is hardly worthy of copyright protection, but nonetheless remains
“J&J, Red Cross Stop Suing Each Other”
WSJ.com: “J&J, Red Cross Stop Suing Each Other”
MR SOFTEE Files Truck Trade Dress Suit
Guishan, Inc. and Mister Softee, Inc. v. Faith Ice, Inc., Petes Ice Cream Truck Rental Corp., Tommy Dalageorgos, Demetrius Konstantakakos, Best Ice, Inc., George L. Adekoya, Juan Jaramillo, Piedad M. Arevalo, Shyne Rims Creamy, Inc. and Flints Rubble, Inc. (Case Number: 1:2008cv02407 (EDNY June 16 2008).
Prior coverage with photos of allegedly infringing MR SOFTEE
Things I Saw During Lunch, con’t
Monstrous Hello Kitty terrorizing lobby of Lever House, Park Avenue, NYC.
How Sanrio, owner of Hello Kitty property, feels about this, discussed here.
“Police Investigate Woman With Five Dead Husbands”
Now those are seven words that tell a story. However not all seven words from the AP are as interesting. Bethat as it may, the AP apparently charges for quotations by the word (see rate sheet below) and my quote falls under the 5 to 25 word level for $12.50. Background here.
UPDATE: TechCrunch
Important Case (Maybe): 10th Circuit on Copyrightability of Digital Model
Plaintiff Meshworks was hired to make computerized, animated 3D models of several Toyota cars for an ad campaign. Faithfulness to what a ‘real’ car would look like was a ‘point’ of the model (which was used on web swites so that customers could manipulate the images (e.g. change color)). A dispute broke out, plaintiff sued
Goodnight Nobody
NY Times: “The Secret to Success in Publishing: Bash Bush, With Nods to a Classic“:
The cover of “Goodnight Bush” looks almost exactly like “Goodnight Moon — green and orange, with an image of a window and fireplace — and uses a similar rhyme scheme. But there the thematic similarities end.
The authors,
Asics v Steve Madden re Stripes
Asics Corporation and Asics America Corporation v. Steve Madden Ltd and Steve Madden Retail Inc
Case Number: 8:2008cv00638
Filed: June 10, 2008
Court: California Central District Court
Read this document on Scribd: complaint asics madden stripes
“AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge ReTort”
Workbench: “AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge ReTort“:
[Workbench is] currently engaged in a legal disagreement with the Associated Press, which claims that Drudge Retort users linking to its stories are violating its copyright and committing “‘hot news’ misappropriation under New York state law.” An AP attorney filed six Digital Millenium Copyright