Intellectual Property Law

Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

Posted on September 18, 2009
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WWF

Posted on September 16, 2009
Via. No Tags

Transformative Works and Cultures Vol 3 (2009)

Posted on September 15, 2009
Table of Contents Editorial Extending transformation HTML TWC Editor Theory The labor of creativity: Women’s work, quilting, and the uncommodified life Abstract HTML Debora J Halbert Sex detectives: “Law & Order: SVU”’s fans, critics, and characters investigate lesbian desire Abstract HTML Julie Levin Russo On productivity and game fandom Abstract HTML Hanna Wirman Praxis Sites of participation: Wiki fandom and the case of Lostpedia Abstract HTML Jason Mittell Identity and authenticity in the filk [...

Judging, On and Off the Court

Posted on September 14, 2009
Tennis fans are still buzzing about the unbelievable scene that unfolded late last night at the US Open tournament.  Kim Clijsters faced Serena Williams in one of the semi-final matches.  Clijsters was dominating Williams, to the latter’s enormous and obvious frustration...

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People Who Died Now Includes Jim Carroll

Posted on September 14, 2009
NYT obit here. below is an excerpt: In 1973 Mr. Carroll left New York to escape drugs. He settled in Bolinas, an artistic community north of San Francisco, where met and married Rosemary Klemfuss in 1978. The marriage ended in divorce. He is survived by a brother, Tom...

Another Win for Veoh

Posted on September 14, 2009
So, first of all, thanks to Mike et al. for inviting me to join the blog. Alas, my time for blogging right now is limited, but I did want to point out that the district court in UMG v. Veoh granted summary judgement to Veoh on Friday. Decision here, courtesy of Copyrights & Campaigns...

Housing Crisis in ?Toon Town

Posted on September 13, 2009
As a parent of youngsters, I spend a lot of my time being brainwashed by exposed to cartoons on Nick, Noggin etc.  It dawns on me that no one has yet noticed the apparent severity of the housing crisis in the world of cartoons.  For example, Wubbzy lives in a tree and SpongeBob lives in [...

IP, India, and Cultural Anthropology

Posted on September 12, 2009
Before anything, I want to thank Michael and the others contributors for inviting me join in this creative collaboration. For my first post to Madisonian.net, I’m focused on culture and norms and how they affect intellectual property policy. No doubt, this is prompted by being in Kolkata, India, where I was invited by a good friend, [...

Making Silly Putty

Posted on September 11, 2009
As a mom, I just love this recipe for (and history of) silly putty - from WikiHow.  (And just to be IP relevant, Crayola apparently owns the trademark…) No Tags

History, Literature, and ? Patents

Posted on September 10, 2009
First, let me thank Mike and his crew for having me here.  I’ve often read Madisonian and am honored to be among the new participants. I thought I’d start off talking about my increasingly inaccurately referenced “summer reading list”...

More Madisonian Expansion

Posted on September 10, 2009
The roster of contributors to Madisonian.net is expanding again by three. Please welcome the following three law professors to the team, all of whom have overlapping interests in intellectual property law, technology law, and other things: Jacqui Lipton, at Case Western Reserve, who also blogs at The Faculty Lounge, Bruce Boyden, at Marquette, who also blogs [...

CBS claims copyright in open mike tape of Assemblyman Duvall

Posted on September 10, 2009
In a story entitled “Recorded Sex Comments Cost Calif. Lawmaker His Job,” the Associated Press reports that California Assemblyman Mike Duvall resigned after his boasts about extramarital affairs were recorded by an open mike. The story mentioned that the tape had been posted to YouTube, and - like all dedicated academics with inquiring minds [...

Teaching and Learning in Law and Life

Posted on September 09, 2009
As expected, last weekend’s NYT op-eds with advice to college students attracted commentary that points out how legal education is like, and unlike, college education.  Paul Horwitz at Prawfsblawg offers characteristically thoughtful analysis; Danielle Citron at Concurring Opinions is pithier but no less on point...

More Python, Fair Use, and Attribution

Posted on September 09, 2009
So I had my iTunes open and on shuffle yesterday when Monty Python’s “Finland” came on. That was what prompted me to check YouTube for Python offerings. Now the Python chaps have offered their own channel. This video has the usual Python cheek as they talk about YouTube, being ripped off, and the open plea [...

?Just YouTube Me?

Posted on September 09, 2009
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Connectivity Panics: In the Cloud and on the Ground

Posted on September 08, 2009
The news media seem to be frothing at the news that the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, the single most vital ground transportation link in the Bay Area and a LANDMARK bridge, will be closed today. (There is a major crack in the bridge, requiring an immediate repair; the bridge was closed over the holiday [...

Smart Choices

Posted on September 08, 2009
From the NYT: A new food-labeling campaign called Smart Choices, backed by most of the nation?s largest food manufacturers, is ?designed to help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices.? The green checkmark label that is starting to show up on store shelves will appear on hundreds of packages, including ? to the surprise of many [...

On Fidelity

Posted on September 05, 2009
(Lots of interesting details are omitted from the anecdote below; in time, as circumstances permit, I may flesh them out!) Ah, the perils of teaching timely topics.  Among the scenarios that I ran by my Trademark Law students at the beginning of this semester is a pending Intent to Use application to register a trademark...

The NY Daily News Needs A Factchecker

Posted on September 04, 2009
Because it turns out that this is a tall tale. No Tags

Some Weekend Music

Posted on September 04, 2009
I fully laud Dave Hoffman’s encouraging folks to listen to Nina Simone’s Sinnerman. As the long weekend is upon us, I offer another tune to help get you pumped up, the B-52s’ Private Idaho (Rock Lobster may have been a great fit for beach goers but I could not find a good stream)...

Copyright Irony, Of Royalty Boards and Google Book Deals

Posted on September 04, 2009
Earlier this week Live365 filed a law suit arguing that the Copyright Royalty Board is unconstitutional. Today is the deadline for authors to opt-out of the class in the Google Book Settlement. The idea that this Settlement ought to approved is more than suspect...

Thought Police at the RIAA?

Posted on September 04, 2009
The Recording Industry Association of American thumped music downloader Joel Tenenbaum at trial, and now the RIAA wants him to act the repentant sinner?  Michael Vick volunteered to do penance by helping with the anti-dogfighting campaign of The Humane Society of the United States, but if he hadn’t done so, would he have been back [...

Tiny (Or Rather Shiny?) Bubbles: Apple Trademarks Dialogue Bubbles?

Posted on September 03, 2009
As Don Ho (and others) have sung: Tiny bubbles In the wine Make me feel happy Ah, they make me feel fine Those tiny bubbles Make me warm all over With a feeling that I’m gonna Love you till the end of time The little charming talk bubbles all over the Internet communications have a similar warm effect...

Thoughts on Beatles Rock Band and the Economics of IP

Posted on September 02, 2009
“The Beatles: Rock Band” is due for release a week from today, together with a newly remastered set of  CDs of the Beatles’ albums.   That’s news to just about no one in the entertainment field, whether on the consumer side, the producer side, or the observer side...

?A new study conducted by Wikimedia Foundation suggests that only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women.?

Posted on September 02, 2009
This won’t surprise anybody who actually pays attention to the climate of the editing discussions on many wikipedia pages. This blog post notes: According to the The Wall Street Journal, the survey took place in November of last year, with results being presented last week at a conference in Buenos Aires...

Twits, As In The NFL Management Folks and Twitter

Posted on September 01, 2009
Although I despise those who twitter as a general matter (and will thus likely embrace the odd medium any day now), it has moments where it is useful. Short bursts of information updates for natural disasters, airport shut downs, and possible revolutionary mayhem come to mind...

Madisonian Expands

Posted on September 01, 2009
Our list of contributors (column at left) has recently expanded by three colleagues who write and blog about IP and technology law.   From time to time you will see posts from the following: Mike Carroll, now on the faculty at American University Washington College of Law, who also blogs on his own at Carrollogos...

The Google Book Search Settlement Goes Meta

Posted on August 31, 2009
Geoff Nunberg at Language Log has a great and passionate post about flaws in the Google Book Search program that aren’t usually part of the IP/privacy debate. Nunberg’s basic points are that (i) there is basically one chance to do this book scanning thing right; (ii) Google is screwing it up;  and (iii) one major way [...

A Terrible Towel Trademark Tale?

Posted on August 30, 2009
As the NFL season gets underway and the Pittsburgh Steelers set off in pursuit of a seventh Super Bowl title (Pittsburghers used to say “One for the thumb” and now, fans call the city “Sixburgh”; what slogan comes next?), the local press is searching for feel-good fan stories...

The Google Book Search Settlement and its Implications

Posted on August 28, 2009
My attention wandered for a moment and I failed to post a link to the second of Pam Samuelson’s excellent Huffington Post analyses of the Google Book Search settlement:  “Why is the Antitrust Division Investigating the Google Book Search Settlement?” This also seems an apt moment to observe that the real import of the GBS settlement [...

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