The Guardian: “Google is named world’s most powerful brand by Millward Brown research“:
Google, GE, Microsoft, Coke, China Mobile.
Droste Effect Packaging
Discussion of the Droste Effect, packaging that contains a depiction of the packaging.
Against Cyberproperty (and CyberTrespass)
Michael Carrier and Greg Lastowka: “Against Cyberproperty”
Ever since cyberproperty burst onto the legal scene a decade ago, courts and scholars have assumed that it is inevitable. This Article shows that it is not. Scholars have examined one element of the link between cyberproperty and property in asking whether cyberspace is the correct
Shel Israel and Shel Israel Puppet
Those of you not put off by the blogging ‘inside baseball’ aspect to this post will be interested by the dispute between blogger/author/interviewer Shel Israel, author of ‘Naked Conversations,’ and the naked Shel Israel parody puppet. As noted by TechCrunch, the parody show seems to be doing better than the original, which does not please
“YouTube’s Filtering Issues Still Not ‘Moot'”
News.com: “YouTube’s Filtering Issues Still Not Moot“:
A year ago Wednesday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt delighted an audience of TV and radio broadcasters when he promised to roll out a system that would mean the end of piracy at YouTube.com
“We are in the process of developing tools which are called ‘Claim Your
Former Bank Members’ Use Not So Chic
Internetcase.com: “Former band members’ use of service mark is not so Chic:”
Rogers v. Wright, No. 04-1149, 2008 WL 857761 (S.D.N.Y. March 31, 2008)
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has issued a permanent injunction restricting the use of the service mark CHIC in connection with musical performances
“Still, We Should Run As If It Was Godzilla”
Godzilla sues Subway for use of Godzilla in ad. Complaint here. Clearly defendants did not take sage advice from Austin Powers.
Text Of Petition To Cancel FACEBOOK Registration
Aaron Greenspan, a college classmate of Mark Zuckerberg, has filed a petition to cancel Facebook’s first registration for FACEBOOK, on three grounds: (1) prior rights; (2) genericness; and (3) fraud on the PTO.
InfoLaw discussion here.
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Read this doc on Scribd: petition to cancel FACEBOOK
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Documentary on Counterfeiting – 8 PM Tonight on PBS
National Geographic show tonight, Illicit:
The world is under threat from a new kind of international crime wave: illicit trade in everything from knock-off Prada bags to bogus medicines, from dangerous weapons to humans themselves. While smuggling is nothing new, globalization has made it larger and far more ominous. The global value of this
The Wall Street Journal Sincerely Regrets The Error And Hopes That No One Was Inconvenienced
This is a real correction from today’s WSJ:
Thirteen billion golf balls, lying end to end, could go around the earth 14 times. An article in the April 7 Golf report incorrectly said nine times.