The Wall St. Journal, the NY Times and MSNBC are reporting tensions between Rosie O’Donnell and Gruner + Jahr, her co-venturer in publishing ROSIE Magazine (the re-named re-positioned McCALLS (see background)).

If the parties’ can’t resolve their differences, bu someone wants to continue the magazine, what should it be named?  This illustrates an unplesant…

The blogosphere had this coming.  As Justice Thomas once said: “I can’t define obscenity, but I know it when I buy it.”  Ok, he didn’t really say that.

More on linking, or in this case, sites which prohibit linking.

Here is Green Turtle Bay’s Sun design, here is Kellogg’s SUNNY logo, here’s the Aztec Sun Calendar, here’s the article on the dispute (now apparently dropped) between Kellogg and the Green Turtle. 

Todd McFarlane created the Spawn comic book, movie, tv show, etc.  A hockey fan, McFarlane admittedly named a character, a bad guy, Anthony ‘Tony Twist’ Twistelli, after a real-life hockey player.  Merely the name was used, not likeness or biographical data. In other words, other than the fact that both are violent, the character was…

Not a ground-breaking decision, but allow me this indulgence of linking to a STOP decision where I represented the prevailing party.

An account of a rights dispute involving Disney over Winnie the Pooh from LAMag.com.  Thanks to Bag and Baggage for this.

I just got an email from my friend, emailharvest@email.com, offering to sell me software for $40 which will harvest 100,000 email addresses in an hour.  However, just so I don’t get this company wrong, there is a disclaimer: “We are strongly against continuously sending unsolicited emails to those who do not wish to receive…