Full text of statement:
SAN JOSE and CUPERTINO, California—February 21, 2007—Cisco and Apple® today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the “iPhone” trademark. Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the “iPhone” trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted, and each side will dismiss any pending actions regarding the trademark. In addition, Cisco and Apple will explore opportunities for interoperability in the areas of security, and consumer and enterprise communications. Other terms of the agreement are confidential.
Another Perez Hilton Lawsuit
THe Smoking Gun: Lawsuit Over Topless Aniston Photo.
India: INTEL v. INTEL
Zee News: “Intel’s Namesake (sic) Restrained From Using Its Trademark”
“The Delhi High Court has restrained a local company from using Intel Corporation’s registered trademark ‘Intel’ and asked it to give compensation to the global chip maker for the infringement. ”
NHL Policy On Use Of Videos
New Tee Vee: “Is NHL Putting YouTube On Ice?”
“The NHL, which gained nearly universal praise for its decision to allow widespread use and sharing of highlight clips on YouTube, seems to be putting the practice of allowing embedding on ice, with some NHL clips on YouTube now sporting the line Embedding disabled by request in the embed code field.”
Settlement In Keyword Purchase Case
Discussion of settlement in keyword purchase case by Prof Goldman.
Viacom Goes With Joost: Copyright Protection As Selling Point To Suppliers
Reel.com: Viacom to put clips on Joost, Rebuffs Youtube:
“Just three weeks after pulling their content from YouTube, Viacom is expected to announce today a broad licensing agreement with Joost, a P2P video platform which was only recently released into beta. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says the decision was made because Joost promised to protect Viacom’s copyrights.
Viacom’s decision to go with Joost is a very public rebuff to YouTube’s irksome decision to only deploy filtering technology after a company signs a distribution agreement.”
Content Recognition Software As Anti-Piracy Tool
NY Times: “New Weapon in Web War Over Privacy“:
“The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips.”
Stanford/California v. The NFL
More about The Big Game here. Background about the NFL’s published application for The Big Game here.
Accused Plagiarist Uses DMCA To Remove Video Accusing Him Of Plagiarism
This is only the second time I’ve used the word ‘chutzpah’ in 5 years of blogging, but, if the facts are as they appear, the use is justified.
Voicing an apparently widespread belief, comic Joe Rogan accused Carlos Mencia of stealing jokes. Rogan showed up at Mencia’s act at the Comedy Store, and films a confrontation in which he accuses Mencia of plagiarism. Rogan uploads the video to YouTube. Mencia then uses the DMCA to remove the video that accuses him of plagiarism.
Rogan’s website and Google Video still show the video.
UPDATE: A reader writes to advise that Rogan was onstage, made a remark about Mencia, then Mencia took the stage. More from Rogan about the protection of stand up comedy material, or lack thereof, here.
