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Are you the keymaster?
The use of trademarks as keywords to serve up competitive advertising when someone uses the trademark as a search term is a hot topic. Recently Google sued Ame…
Elizabeth Rader
Non-Residential Fellow
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Townsend takes Pro Bobble case
Kudos to William Gallagher at Townsend for stepping up to defend the makers of Arnold Schwartzenegger bobble-head dolls, pro bono publico. Press Release.…
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Lose Yoursuit
How did I miss this? Obnoxious rapper Eminem has sued Apple for using his composition "Lose Yourself" in a commercial for iPod. In the Apple commer…
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"Neiman Carcass" is Amusing, Not Confusing
The Fund for Animals runs a website using the domain names neimancarcass.com, neimancarcass.org and, of course, neimancarcass.net. As the domain name suggests,…
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Pop goes the Lawsuit
LL Bean sued 4 companies in Portland, Maine today claiming that the companies deployment of pop-up ads using "LL Bean" as a trigger infringed its trad…
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Siva out of the Library
Last night I finally got to meet Siva, on tour promoting his cool new book The Anarchist in the Library, which he was kind enough to sign for me. I've bee…
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Public Knowledge
Public Knowledge…
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Parker Family Foundation Helps Out EFF's Patent Busting Project
I'm tickled to see that EFF has received a sizeable grant from the Parker family of Lexington, Massachusetts (not quite my home town) for the patent-busting…
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Election Over- Thank You for Playing
I just learned of the following incident from an online acquaintance who lives in Texas (no offense to Texas- this probably happens everywhere). Her husband w…
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Right of Publicity Asserted Against Speech Again
If the Rosa Parks case did not convince you that the Right of Publicity can be a threat to democracy, here's another. Governater Arnold Schwartzenegger…
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Court Rules Open Source Yoga Unity Has Standing
April 19, 2004- We just received Judge Phyllis Hamilton's Opinion and Order denying Bikram Choudhury's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. This was e…
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Case Management Conference Set
We've received an Order from the District Court setting a case management conference for May 19, 2004.…