Milberg Weiss is the leading plaintiff’s law firm in shareholder suits.  It is finding that other firms are copying its court papers, then under-bidding it for business.  It is now putting copyright notices on its papers and filing for copyright registration.  Now it is sending out demand letters to those law firms, according to this…

Defendant Coalition for Arizona opposed the expansion of tribal gambling casinos in Arizona thorugh a “Joe Arizona” advertising campaign.”  It used Plaintiff’s ENERGIZER BUNNY in advertising without authorization.  It’s common to allege both infringement and dilution as alternative pleadings, however strict text book definitions of the two torts suggest that they aren’t likely to simultaneously occur…

Via AmLaw, a complaint in which a free-lance writer sues a newspaper for including her articles in an online database.  She alleges direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement.  No permalink, so as time goes by, you’re on your own.

Respondent’s brief in the Nike v. Kasky (commercial free speech) case, via the Goldstein Howe firm (a Supreme Court boutique).

The National Review says enough is enough re copyright term extensions.

I went to the Law Blog conference at Yale today.  Instapundit and several others were blogging as the conference progressed, and began commenting on their blogs about each other’s blogging in real-time.  At some point live blogging during conferences begins to resemble passing notes in class.

I wonder if the typo in this headline from the Vanouver Sun will be corrected by the time you read it.

Here is a UDRP decision in which the panel found complainant guilty of Reverse Domain-Name Highjacking and attempting to use the UDRP as “crowbar to pry away the domain name” WINDSOR.COM There appears to have been some falsified evidence as well.  There are no sanctions for this so the only recourse is for us to…