Intellectual Property Law

A Rumble in the Wiki/Licensing World: Wikimedia Foundation Moves from GNU to Creative Commons

Posted on May 21, 2009
Slashdot reports that “The Wikimedia Foundation has resolved to migrate the copyright licensing of all of its wiki projects, including Wikipedia, from the GNU Free Documentation License to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License...

Sartorial Rules for Attorneys

Posted on May 21, 2009

Where Trademarked ?Eagles? Dare

Posted on May 21, 2009
[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions] The world is again safe for trademark law, now that the National Rifle Association has put an end to efforts at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to name the university?s eagle mascot ?Eddie.? For 20 years, the eagle has been the mascot of athletic teams at UW-L...

Do you think he licensed the rights to the song?

Posted on May 20, 2009
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Creative Logos Deconstructed

Posted on May 20, 2009
From here: The Big Ten collegiate conference has eleven schools but they didn?t want to change their name. However, they used their logo to hide the numerical ?11? in the name. Many more at the source site. No Tags

More on Comic Norms, and Virtual Symposia

Posted on May 20, 2009
[Cross-posted in part from Concurring Opinions] I posted earlier about the Virginia Law Review In Brief responses to Dotan Oliar’s and Chris Sprigman’s UVa Law Review article, There?s No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy, 94 Va...

Choppin? Wood

Posted on May 19, 2009
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Best Practices in Fair Use

Posted on May 19, 2009
Following up on Ann’s post yesterday, and cross-posted from Concurring Opinions: Yesterday, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University?s Washington College of Law and the Center for Social Media at AU?s School of Communication released ?Remix Culture: Fair Use Is Your Friend,? a video that accompanies and explains the Code of Best [...

On Being an Ambassador for Pittsburgh

Posted on May 18, 2009
[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions] By popular request, I?m posting this link to my brief appearance in this morning?s New York Times.  (Well, the link is popular in certain quarters, and I did receive a request to post it!)   The story has to do with tomorrow?s mayoral primary, in which Pittsburgh?s young mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, front man for [...

?Remix Culture: Fair Use Is Your Friend? is a collaborative project of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property?a program of AU?s Washington College of Law?and the Center for Social Media?a center of AU?s School of Communication?along with Stanford Law School?s Fair Use Project. It was funded by Google.

Posted on May 18, 2009
From Stacey Jackson-Roberts at American University Washington College of Law: American University Washington College of Law?s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and AU’s Center for Social Media, in collaboration with Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project, are launching a new video explaining how online video creators can make remixes, mashups, and other common [...

From the Department of Odd Products

Posted on May 18, 2009
This. I’m guessing the product name is “merely descriptive” but will not be doing any empirical research on the question. No Tags

Useful List of Patent Law Blogs

Posted on May 18, 2009
Here at PatentlyO! No Tags

Parody or Satire?

Posted on May 17, 2009
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Google Respects Colonel Sanders? Kentucky Fried Privacy

Posted on May 15, 2009
The people walking by, not so much. Via. No Tags

On Showing Up

Posted on May 15, 2009
[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions] My post on the challenges facing the law school Research Dean contained an implicit and unexamined assumption regarding a gap between the interest of the individual faculty member in producing and distributing research and scholarship, on the one hand, and the interest of that faculty member?s law school in the research and [...

Patent Law and Women?s Health

Posted on May 13, 2009
The ACLU has helped organize a lawsuit challenging a decision by the Patent & Trademark Office granting Myriad Genetic patent rights to two genes that are closely associated with increased risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer, and on the testing that measures that risk for individual women...

Copyright Debate at The Economist

Posted on May 12, 2009
The Economist is hosting an online debate on copyright law and policy.  The proposition at issue is this:  ”This house believes that existing copyright laws do more harm than good.”  Defending the motion is William (Terry) Fisher of Harvard; opposing the motion is Justin Hughes of Cardozo...

A Right to be Punished?

Posted on May 12, 2009
[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions]   From the Department of Paradoxes in Sporting Jurisprudence: Last Saturday night, at the end of the NBA playoff basketball game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Denver Nuggets, Antoine Wright of the Mavericks broke the rules...

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Posted on May 12, 2009
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?Irish student hoaxes world?s media with fake quote?

Posted on May 12, 2009
From Yahoo News: When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news...

The Law School Faculty as a Commons

Posted on May 11, 2009
[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions] What?s the connection between law professors and stand-up comics? My last post pointed to a recent short piece on comics and the relationship between ?anti-plagiarism? social norms that encourage comic creativity and the emergence of those norms in the context of commodified comedy...

At Co-Op This Month

Posted on May 11, 2009
I’m guest-blogging at Concurring Opinions this month and will cross-post here when it seems appropriate.   Here is my first (guest) post. No Tags

?This case stems from a dangerous, cruel, and highly indecent use of the internet for the apparent purpose of revenge.?

Posted on May 07, 2009
A unanimous three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit held in Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc. that a claim for promissory estoppel by an Internet harassment victim was not necessarily precluded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The plaintiff’s lawsuit alleged that her former boyfriend created a Yahoo account through which the plaintiff herself [...

Section 10, iTunes 8

Posted on May 07, 2009
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New Zealand sand artist Peter Donnelly

Posted on May 07, 2009
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Robin Malloy on Entrepreneurship, Property, and Markets

Posted on May 06, 2009
I recently wrote about the Creativity, Law and Entrepreneurship Workshop at the University of Wisconsin in which I participated. One of the speakers, Robin Malloy who is the E.I. Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law, emailed me and about the ideas he presented...

Code Cracking at the C.I.A. ? Maybe They Should Call the N.S.A.?

Posted on May 06, 2009

Extreme Tag

Posted on May 06, 2009
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Pharmaceutical company Merck paid an undisclosed sum to academic publisher Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles?most of which presented data favorable to Merck products?that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure of company sponsorship.

Posted on May 06, 2009
From Bioethics.net: The Scientist has reported that, yes, it’s true, Merck cooked up a phony, but real sounding, peer reviewed journal and published favorably looking data for its products in them. Merck paid Elsevier to publish such a tome, which neither appears in MEDLINE or has a website, according to The Scientist...

Facebook CPO for CA AG 2.0?

Posted on May 03, 2009
The post title isn’t a cryptic Star Wars reference.  Instead, what do we think of the following? Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly is thinking of running for Attorney General of California in 2010, when Jerry Brown’s term expires...

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