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Speaking of sports:  In Texas, as you know, everything’s mu-u-u-uch bigger.  That includes NCAA-power-school IP thuggery, explains Eric Johnson, as well as the standard of what is and isn’t chump change: UT has been very aggressive about trademark issues. So with all that, how many millions of dollars has UT actually brought in...

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Originally posted 2006-07-19 19:54:53. Republished by Old Post Promoter The end is near for Leo Stoller.  UPDATE:  Now it’s getting really silly! The hammer drops ©, ....

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I was going to skip it this year, honest.  But it really does get even better, not worser.  So, as I started out last year’s Super Bowl post: Every year around Super Bowl time I post an item about the NFL’s overzealous efforts to impose a gridiron grip on all aspects...

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Originally posted 2007-02-06 01:14:35. Republished by Old Post PromoterNegotiate your browser in the direction of Blawg Review #94! Cutting the baby in half ©, ....

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Originally posted 2008-01-15 11:57:25. Republished by Old Post PromoterWe all love loopholes. Concurring Opinions writes here about the Seinfeld defamation lawsuit, and asks:  How broad, really, is the “opinion” loophole? Having read a few cases in this area, I’ve been worried by some judges’ willingness to take every...

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Originally posted 2007-02-18 13:48:59. Republished by Old Post PromoterBut it’s hard to have sympathy for the MPAA about its being accused of infringement, since its insane shotgun appraoch to enforcement is so just plain bad. Now as Boing Boing says, the movies people are ripping off other...

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Remember the silliness over the attempt by a certain attorney to secure trademark rights for CYBERLAWYER?  The notable part about how that went down was that the foolishness was abated by virtue of a cacophony of webby mockery, a completely virtual beclownment of the first order. So how you figure this ”intrepid”...

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Originally posted 2005-03-11 15:40:00. Republished by Old Post PromoterVery amusing colloquy at Balkinization arising from Jack Balkin’s prediction that the Supreme Court will “split” on the Decalogue case in a decision per Justice O’Connor that “upholds five, strikes down five.” One interesting bit: A commenter called “Farnsworth” (author of...

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Originally posted 2006-10-06 16:15:10. Republished by Old Post PromoterMy old friends at Kaye Scholer (link fixed!) give you the skinny on the new Trademark Dilution Act.  Bottom line:  Good for big companies.  Not so good for defendants.  New law of trademark dilution ©, ....

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Originally posted 2007-01-24 16:18:46. Republished by Old Post Promoter Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the countrys sprawling, unruly online population. . . . Hu, a strait-laced...

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Originally posted 2009-03-14 23:59:47. Republished by Old Post PromoterCORY DOCTOROW: Obama administration: releasing details of secret copyright treaty endangers “national security”. Er, what? Good question, Instapundit.  Click through — the original story is here, at Wired.  But you can really see all you need to see by reading...

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Here’s some of what you’ve missed lately from other smart folks via @roncoleman on Twitter if you’re still pretending that if you draw the shades and turn out the lights it will all just go away: Whence happiness? “A person’s wealth of social relationships.” (That’s relationships. Not “followers.”) RT @InternetLaw: “Addressing Search Engine,...

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Originally posted 2005-05-23 15:19:00. Republished by Old Post PromoterOutgoing New York Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent writes about 13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did. A favorite, via Best of the Web Today: Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing...

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Originally posted 2009-03-09 12:11:57. Republished by Old Post PromoterConsider the other side of the aggrieved vandalism promoter Shepard Fairey, of HOPE poster fame: Gawker: “Obey” Trademark Law: Some guy in Pittsburgh sells little baby Steeler mascots with the phrase “Obey Steeler Baby.” Shepard Fairey demands that he stop infringing on...

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Originally posted 2005-02-15 14:44:00. Republished by Old Post PromoterThe ultimate branding device is a person’s name, although the oft-stated truism that “every man is entitled to do business under his own name” is far from absolute. Still and all, how about every man’s right to do business under someone...

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The wheels of justice, they say, turn slowly.  The fact that they say this does not, however, in any way assuage clients, though it does seem to relax certain judges even more than they, unfortunately, are already relaxed regarding the motions, applications and other prayers gathering dust before them. On the...

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Originally posted 2009-01-14 21:45:14. Republished by Old Post Promoter Ryan Gile reports that it’s Trixy out there. How’s Trix? ©, ....

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Originally posted 2008-06-18 15:50:57. Republished by Old Post PromoterYou can’t have missed the story, in all its agony. One weensy problem with the blogosphere: It’s so quick, so supple, so instantaneous, so plastic… that it is also reactive, and in its own way, reactionary.  Its reactions have the tendency,...

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Well, I told you I had some serious questions… Franchise quality control finds its own level ©, ....

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Originally posted 2006-01-03 12:39:59. Republished by Old Post PromoterWe’ve blogged on graffiti before. Wordsmith to the stars Jane Genova reports on a little commercial free speech applied a bit too freely — as in, on other people’s walls: Seems Sony contracted with local graffiti artists to plaster urban...

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