The Register: ‘In the Wake Of Registerfly, Is ICANN Taking Flight?” (Attempting to causally link ICANN’s recent contemplation of a change in legal status, to its recent dis-accreditation (decreditation? removal of accreditation?) of registrar RegisterFly.)
Urban v. Urban Update
Tennessean.com: “Keith Urban countersues Keith Urban”
Group Rankling Caused By Utah Law
Information Week: ‘Utah ban on Trademark Keywords Rankles Groups”
Here’s The Argument Against Buying Counterfeits
You can get trapped in the basement of a store for two hours when the place is being raided.
From NY One:
“Hours after breaking up an alleged counterfeit ring operating out of a Chinatown store, police were surprised to get a call late Tuesday afternoon from shoppers trapped inside the store’s basement.
Police say during a raid of a store on Centre Street Tuesday, the owners herded 12 shoppers into the basement and held them there for more than two hours.
“That’s outrageous – even for New York,” said one New Yorker.
Unaware of the customers trapped in the basement, police arrested five people on trademark counterfeiting charges and collected hundreds of knockoff bags, sunglasses and wallets.
About two hours later, the trapped shoppers contacted police on their cell phones and said the shop owners had herded them into the basement when officers first showed up and told them to wait. ”
Domain Name Prices To Go Up A Little
InternetNews.com: “Domain Name Fee Increase Set” (Verisign can raise $6 registry fee to $6.42 in October).
IMPORTANT – SAFETY RECALL
Mid-Hudson News: “Car Delaers Settle With State AG For False Advertising:
” . . . Poughkeepsie Chevrolet mailed thousands of fliers to Hudson Valley owners of General Motors cars with a headline that read “IMPORTANT – SECOND NOTICE – SAFETY RECALL,” complete with a recall number, warning consumers that their vehicles “may be at risk” and to call their “designated safety recall center” and schedule an appointment to address the recall. In reality, the recall, including the recall number, was fictitious. The phone number listed on the flier was actually Poughkeepsie Chevrolet’s service center, for which the dealer hoped to increase business.”
You Can Own the PONY EXPRESS Trademark
Eccomerce law: “Pony Express Marks Being Auctioned Online.”
The Games That Must Not Be Named
Note the symbol behind those Olympic, I mean, Winter Games figure skaters in ‘Blades of Glory.” I took the fam to see the Will Ferrell movie Friday (Trademark Blog review: Goofy fun) and because I cannot leave the work at the office, I noticed the ‘not supposed to look like the Olympic symbol’ symbol, and the use of the term ‘Winter Games’ rather than the games that must not be named. Of course if you read the reviews, they use the term ‘Olympics.’
I Heart Dispute
WSJ.com: “We Heart Trademark Disputes Involving People Named Stewart” (re I Heart NY and the KATONAH matters).
“Hoping To Move Guitar Notations Into The Legal Sunshine”
NY Times: “Hoping to Move Guitar Notations Into The Legal Sunshine“:
” . . . about 2 percent of the songs in the company’s catalog have licensed guitar tablature associated with them.
For the remaining songs in Famous Music’s catalog — and the vast majority of the music publishing industry’s collective catalog — there is insufficient demand to justify the costs of publishing tablature.
As a result, guitarists who want to know how to play less mainstream songs have gone to sites where amateurs post tablature. Under this agreement, MusicNotes, publishers and artists will essentially earn money from an army of volunteers, who are creating content that the publishers are not creating on their own.”