There’s something missing in this BBC story. A man leaves a cellphone containing nude pictures of his wife, in a McDonalds. Someone posts the pictures on the Internet. The man sues McDonalds. What the article doesn’t report is what theory the man came up with as to why this is McDonalds’ fault.
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I received a solicitation today to become a UK solicitor from these folk. I’d rather ‘take silk’ and become a barrister so that I can wear the robe and the horse hair wig. I could use the wig. The trips to court might be onerous.

. . . I was tempted to add “and Mindless.” In any event, here is a discussion of how well designed the Drudge Report is.

User entries on social networking cites are potentially discoverable. HT RC.

Washington Post: Spam Reduced 66% Worldwide After One Company Shuttered”
DomainNameWire: “ICANN Cuts EstDomains, Spam Down 75%”

God Bless Our Country.

Brian Berlandi: “What State Am I In: Common Law Trademarks On The Internet“:

This essay explores the interaction between common law trade-
marks and the Internet—a relationship that has yet to be scrutinized by
the intellectual property and Internet communities. More specifically, it
strains to identify a common law mark’s territorial zone of

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