Apparently women walk around naked at the Burning Man Festival, held annually in the Nevada desert.  Someone filmed some naked women there in order to sell a video.  Now the organizers of the festival are suing the video’s producers under, among other theories, invasion of privacy.  It’s interesting that someone can walk around naked…

You have another three days to see Greenpeaces’s use of this parody of Exxon’s ESSO logo , which use was enjoined by a French court, according to this Findlaw article. 

Bret Fausett if the ICANN Blog has penned an essay, “If I Were Stratton Sclavos,” (CEO of Verisign, domain name registry and registrar).  It’s longer than the essay I would have written which would have been “Stick to digital certs.”

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Today’s Wall Street Journal quotes a study by FutureBrand (a branding consultant), indicating that the NEW YORK YANKEES is the most valuable brand in sports, valued at US$333.8 million, followed by the DALLAS COWBOYS at $300.5 m and the LOS ANGELES LAKERS at $272.5 m.  Last year, a Future Brand study of sports franchises put…

New York Court of Appeals decision holds that publication on a website constitutes a single publication under the single publication rule of defamation.

I don’t know why lawsuits like this get filed.  Alanis Morrisette (who owns and uses alanis.com) sues Russ Smith over alanis.net  (which, he alleges, he has been warehousing).  More damages accruing to society because NSI turned the .net TLD into a sandtrap for silly litigation (but that’s a rant for another day).

Instead of making…

Craig Mende of Fross Zelnick, famous trademark litigator, writes in to report his latest victory before the Second Circuit.  Times Mirror published FIELD AND STREAM magazine for about 100 years and sold some items related to hunting and fishing.  Field and Stream Licenses Company had been selling all sorts of goods and services, including items related…