St. Petersburg Times discussion of dispute between Pernod (distributor of HAVANA CLUB outside the U.S.)  and Matusalem, over its use of SPIRIT OF CUBA for rum.

See you next week.

LA Times article on Google’s use of third-party news for its Google News service.  Of interest: AP is asking Google to license its content.

I’ve been thinking some more about group annotation of legal texts and I think that substantive law-oriented groups such as The Copyright Society, or the practice committees of the various bar associations would be naturals to experiment with (and coerce members to contribute to) wiki-type annotation and linkification technology.  See here for more details.

I’m late to the game on this but here’s an interesting ITConversations audio from November 2004 on intellectual property issues raised by MMPORGS and other forms of online gaming.

Article on REDSKINS case.  I concur with IPKat that as troubling as any other aspect of this case is the team’s determination to fight so hard to retain a name that identifies a race of people by the color of their skins, for the purpose of a game.  In an effort to move licensed…

Products that purport to monitor the text of keyword advertising so as to police trademark infringement: Roitrax and Adgooroo.  Note: I’m reporting, not endorsing.

Should companies that make models of military aircraft pay royalties to defense contractors for the use of their creations?  Via the Rutland Herald.