Peter Brownlow of Bird and Bird, our correspondent at the House of Lords. writes to tell us of a decision handed down this morning which appears to contradict the Court of Appeal decision in the Arsenal case, which Peter analyzed here yesterday.

“The House of Lords handed down a decision in the criminal …

Esme Smith of Jones Day will be interim GC while a search is conducted, more details here. 

Good to see that Actual Malice is blogging regularly again.  Too many good items to single out one.  Just click here and scroll down.

A sports fan at Bird and Bird writes:

“Judgment was handed down yesterday by the Court of Appeal in Arsenal Football Club PLC -v- Matthew Reed

In summary they overturned Mr Justice Laddie on his finding that:

1.      the ECJ decision was not binding on him in all respects; and

2.      that on the facts …

This really is a Seventh Circuit case as to whether there can be a binding oral assignment of copyright in fake novelty teeth.  Plaintiff made Austin Powers’ teeth.  The decision offers numerous insights into a hitherto misunderstood product.

Ben Edelman has released a preliminary report on Gator, which monitors users’ visits and provides targeted pop-up advertising.  Ben has devised a method for discerning which third-parties may be using Gator to target a particular website.  Ben describes his report as follows:

“I today released “Documentation of Gator Advertisements and Targeting,” a report

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Producers of Prosciutto di Parma ham and Grana Padano cheese prevailed in the European Court of Justice as the ECJ upheld laws requiring purveyours of products bearing those appellations of origin to perform certain processes (in this case slicing the ham and grating the cheese) in the region of origin.  Parties to the cases (including Wal-Mart’s ASDA…

Prof. Lessig is soliciting support to introduce a bill into Congress re amending the Copyright Act re: copyright terms.  Details here.