BasBasBas.com: “Digiturk Causes Turkish Ban of Blogger/Blogspot“:

Digiturk asked Blogger to take several blogs or blog entries down containing links to pirated transmissions of the live games. Blogger did nothing, Digiturk went to court and under Turkish intellectual property law, they managed to get Blogger banned completely, effectively banning millions of websites that have nothing to do with Turkish football or pirating.

NY Times: In Cape Cod League, It’s Tradition vs. Trademark:

Now, Cape Cod teams are being forced to choose between maintaining a link with the major leagues and remaining true to their homespun heritage. In the case of the Chatham Athletics, homespun is winning out. The team has changed its name to the Anglers to sidestep a trademark dispute with Major League Baseball. The teams have a Nov. 1 deadline to abandon their names or purchase team uniforms and merchandise exclusively through licensed vendors.

The article reports that 1 in 6 major leaguers played in the Cape Cod League at one time.
Thequestion as to the extent to which a trademark owner, for example a franchisor, is able to obligate a licensee to purchase goods from a certain supplier, is an interesting one. If you’re aware of good articles on a ‘tying analysis’ of trademark license, please provide a cite in the comments.

Prof Lessing on the Op-Ed page of the NY Times: “Copyright and Politics Don’t Mix“:

After all, a 95-year copyright on “Wall-E” may encourage Pixar to make innovative movies, but we can be confident our presidential candidates don’t require any first-to-the-market advantages before they agree to debate, nor is there a need to protect their answers as though they were record albums or new technologies.

Prof Goldman: “Search Engine ‘Cache’ Function Covered by Implied License – Parker v Yahoo“:

This lawsuit squarely revisits the ground covered in the Field v. Google case, which Google won for 5 different reasons–including that anyone who posts content to the web knowing that search engines display cached copies impliedly licenses the search engines to do so. Here, the search engines apparently obtained the copyrighted works from Parker’s site (instead of from some third party infringing site), and Parker admits he knew of the cache function. As a result, Yahoo and Microsoft can claim an implied license for their cached copies.

IP Colloquium:
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