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U.S. web sites inaccessible for the
visually impaired, says Forrester

U.S. web sites inaccessible for the
visually impaired, says Forrester 12/30/2003 04:09 PM
InternetRetailer.com Dec 30 2003 3:08PM ET

Akamai blames inaccessible Web sites on
`international attack'

Akamai blames inaccessible Web sites on
`international attack' 06/15/2004 09:05 PM

Akamai blames inaccessible Web sites on
'international attack'

Akamai blames inaccessible Web sites on
'international attack' 06/15/2004 03:12 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 15 2004 6:38PM GMT

Substantial Non-Infringing Use

Substantial Non-Infringing Use 08/07/2004 03:25 PM
P2PCongress' plan to provide access to easy P2P distributed archives of Congressional hearings is both useful and a killer example of non-infringing use. Others?...

Sought for MGM v. Grokster:
Non-Infringing P2P Use

Sought for MGM v. Grokster:
Non-Infringing P2P Use 12/22/2004 01:40 AM
Slashdot Dec 20 2004 5:26PM GMT

Bush's iPod filled with infringing
goodness

Bush's iPod filled with infringing
goodness 04/13/2005 11:50 AM
Cory Doctorow: President Bush has a treasured iPod full of songs that were decanted into it by a media strategist. This makes him: a downloader, an INDUCEr, a Darknet user and an infringer. Who'd a figgered the prez for a copyfighter?

The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist in the 2004 campaign. Among them are "Circle Back" by John Hiatt, "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care" by Joni Mitchell and "My Sharona," the 1970s song by The Knack that Joe Levy, a deputy managing editor in charge of music coverage at Rolling Stone, cheerfully branded "suggestive if not outright filthy" in an interview last week.

Link (Thanks, Jason)

Update: To forestall more email on this subject: please read the quotation from the article reproduced above, with special attention to the boldfaced section. While the article states that Bush has a staffer load his iPod from the iTunes Music Store, it also says that he has his friend download music to it from his personal collection. The former, obviously, is not particularly radical, but the latter is exactly the kind of behavior the music industry characterizes as theft.

Infringing teenager's awesome They Might
Be Giants video

Infringing teenager's awesome They Might
Be Giants video 03/24/2005 11:30 AM
Cory Doctorow: Shawn sez, "Dave Logan is a high school senior who just finished his latest animation, which is a music video for They Might Be Giants' excellent song 'Bloodmobile.' This is a really excellent video, and I hope we can all appreciate a good science song. I think this is pretty in-fringe-ified, but I imagine it's just a matter of time before it's available on the Giants' site. What's the status of student work and fair use anyway?" Link (Thanks, Shawn!)

South Park-infringing trench art from
Iraq

South Park-infringing trench art from
Iraq 04/01/2005 12:24 PM
Cory Doctorow: I ran into gamer-theorist-turned-military-consultant JC Herz at the Emerging Technology conference last month and she gave me a print out of this underground bit of infringing trench-art that's being circulated among soldiers stationed in Iraq. I've scanned it and posted it on Flickr. Link
(Thanks, JC!)

Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of
Abuse

Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of
Abuse 05/03/2004 11:04 AM
Slashdot May 3 2004 2:57PM GMT

2nd Circuit opinion affirms fair use --
even when the source is infringing

2nd Circuit opinion affirms fair use --
even when the source is infringing 04/21/2004 02:08 AM
On Copyfight, Jason Schulz calls out to a recent Second Circuit opinion in which the value of fair use is affirmed, even when the material itself is taken from an infringer. This is the right decision: if I want to make a critical documentary about a Star Wars movie, and the only way for me to get my clips is by downloading them from Kazaa, my reuse of the material should be fair use -- even if the person who ripped the movie and put it on a P2P net is infringing.

"Fair use is not a doctrine that exists by sufferance, or that is earned by good works and clean morals; it is a right--codified in § 107 and recognized since shortly after the Statute of Anne--that is "necessary to fulfill copyright's very purpose, '[t]o promote the Progress of science and the useful arts . . . .'"

Link

Net 'Outcry' Spurs Review Of Patent:
Microsoft Ordered To Pay for Infringing

Net 'Outcry' Spurs Review Of Patent:
Microsoft Ordered To Pay for Infringing 11/13/2003 06:36 AM
Washington Post Nov 13 2003 5:25AM ET

Apple, Microsoft Infringing On Oniline
Software Update Patent?

Apple, Microsoft Infringing On Oniline
Software Update Patent? 07/20/2004 08:03 PM

FBI Seizes Over $80 Million Worth of
Counterfeit and Infringing Software in
California and Texas

FBI Seizes Over $80 Million Worth of
Counterfeit and Infringing Software in
California and Texas 09/17/2004 12:43 AM
Microsoft Corp. today applauded the FBI in Los Angeles for its leadership following a two-year investigation undertaken in a significant partnership with Microsoft and other industry investigators that has resulted in the largest seizure of counterfeit Microsoft® software and components to date.

New Senate bill aims at companies making
copyright-infringing tools

New Senate bill aims at companies making
copyright-infringing tools 07/09/2004 12:06 PM

The Inducing of Copyright Infringement Act of 2004, or INDUCE , a recently proposed Senate bill, would enable lawsuits against manufacturers of software which support or invite copyright infringement. The law would combine intellectual property redress with an eye towards punishing solication of minors.

Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) explained his proposal:

it is illegal and immoral to induce or encourage children to commit crimes. Artists realize that adults who corrupt or exploit the innocence of children are the worst type of villains. In Oliver Twist, Fagin and Bill Sikes profited by inducing children to steal. In the film Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, the leering “Child-Catcher” lured children into danger with false promises of “free lollipops.” Tragically, some corporations now seem to think that they can legally profit by inducing children to steal – that they can legally lure children and others with false promises of “free music.”

Critics argue that the bill undoes the technology protections established by the US Supreme Court in 1984, when it ruled that the VCR, while allowing some infringement, was not entirely a machine of copyright violation and hence could not be sued. Moreover, other INDUCE opponents believe that the law could be applied to a great variety of technology and innovation , including portable music players . Defenders argue that digital networks are qualitatively different from the 1980s VCR, and that peer-to-peer trading, the bill's primary target , is overwhelming about copyright infringement.

Trademark vs. Search: Do you Soo...gle?

Trademark vs. Search: Do you Soo...gle? 09/08/2004 06:10 PM
Source: SearchDay - Does Geico's trademark lawsuit against Google have merit? How will the case be argued? What's the likely outcome of the trial? A mock court of trademark experts weighs in with their verdict....

The Trademark Blog

The Trademark Blog 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
The Trademark Blog .. Martin Schwimmer .. Marty

schwimmerlegal.com/blog
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Lindows can use its trademark (for now)

Lindows can use its trademark (for now) 02/11/2004 09:36 AM
But Microsoft won't give up

Web Ad Trademark Law To Be Retested

Web Ad Trademark Law To Be Retested 01/17/2004 10:57 PM

Web ad trademark law to be retested

Web ad trademark law to be retested 01/16/2004 01:01 PM
CNET Jan 16 2004 1:41AM GMT

Trademark Assignments on the Web

Trademark Assignments on the Web 12/15/2003 03:33 AM
The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced the Trademark Assignments on the Web System, available at http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/ . This search system allows you to find trademark assignments back to 1995 (before that you're going to have to check with...

Other News: GarageBand Trademark

Other News: GarageBand Trademark 01/07/2004 02:10 PM
Apple made a secret trademark deal last Spring to use the name "GarageBand".

Gmail Under Trademark Dispute

Gmail Under Trademark Dispute 08/14/2004 09:54 AM

SK Telecom's Trademark Dispute

SK Telecom's Trademark Dispute 05/20/2004 02:28 AM
Hankooki May 20 2004 6:20AM GMT

Microsoft Sparkle Trademark?

Microsoft Sparkle Trademark? 12/30/2003 02:40 AM
You be the judge....

Trademark Law Shouldn't Prejudice
Internet Ads

Trademark Law Shouldn't Prejudice
Internet Ads 02/19/2004 11:29 AM
Electronic Frontier Foundations Feb 19 2004 3:58PM GMT

Google's Trademark Gaffe

Google's Trademark Gaffe 08/16/2004 12:07 PM
Will the company be able to keep the name of its new email service?

SSC Trademark Threats vs
LinuxGazette.net

SSC Trademark Threats vs
LinuxGazette.net 12/02/2003 09:53 AM

Trademark wars heat up

Trademark wars heat up 12/05/2003 07:47 PM
So if you Google ``Acme Widgets'' and the results page contains an ad for competitor ``Brand X Widgets,'' does that violate Acme's trademark? ...

Google Changes Trademark Policy

Google Changes Trademark Policy 04/11/2004 06:25 PM
Search Engine Journal Apr 11 2004 11:06PM GMT

God violates Intel trademark

God violates Intel trademark 07/21/2004 07:20 AM
The Register Jul 21 2004 12:08PM GMT

An R-Rated Trademark Dispute?

An R-Rated Trademark Dispute? 04/19/2005 04:16 AM
The MPAA really does get a little crazy when it comes to over-reacting on intellectual property issues. Their latest move is to send out cease-and-desist letters to sites that host fan fiction -- not because those made up stories use characters, places and themes from real movies -- but because they use the (trademarked) MPAA movie rating system. That's right, if you happen to label your story as rated G, PG, PG-13, R or NC-17, you'd better watch out, the MPAA might come after you. Of course, they seem to ignore the fact that this system has become common around the world, is hardly taking anything away from the MPAA's own system (if anything, it enhances it), and also is useful in keeping age-inappropriate stories off the screens of those who shouldn't see them.

Axa sues Google over trademark

Axa sues Google over trademark 04/27/2004 11:35 AM
Insurer Axa is to sue Google in a dispute over trademarks which could threaten the web search firm's advertising revenues.

Microsoft Trademark List

Microsoft Trademark List 02/11/2004 01:19 AM
Check this seven page list for a good synopsis of all Microsoft's trademarks. Some of them I've forgot, such as Actimates.

New Google Trademark TrustRank

New Google Trademark TrustRank 06/05/2005 11:28 PM

The story of a trademark lawyer and RSS

The story of a trademark lawyer and RSS 02/01/2005 10:01 PM
OK, for a perfect example of the absurdity of not looking before legaling: Lawyer writes a blog about trademarks. Lawyer...

Should Google Have Anything To Do With
Ad Trademark Questions

Should Google Have Anything To Do With
Ad Trademark Questions 05/04/2004 03:09 PM
Google keeps running into lawsuits concerning companies who buy advertisements based on the names or trademarks of their competitors. We've already explained why should be perfectly legal under trademark law (which doesn't prevent all use of a trademarked term - just any use that is seen to be confusing people into believing one company is another company). However, this NewMediaZero piece points out that, even if it is a trademark violation, it makes no sense to go after Google, who is simply the publisher. If they must go after someone, the complaining companies should go after those who they are accusing of misusing their trademarks: the competitors buying the ads. Of course, what this article leaves out is that the complaining companies are upset that Google appears to be profiting off of their trademark by selling the ads. I wonder what would happen if Google set up a "compromise" position where a portion of the money that an advertiser paid for advertising on a trademarked keyword went to the trademark owner?

Trademark protection at its mightiest

Trademark protection at its mightiest 01/22/2004 04:31 AM
Microsoft continues to press its case against a 17-year-old Canadian high school student named Mike Rowe because his web site is mikerowesoft.com and he refused their offer of $10. Ten dollars! I know it sounds cheap, but you have to remember that these are ten American dollars. You have to sympathize with Microsoft: Tons of people are going to end up on Rowe's site by mistake simply because they typed every letter after the "i" wrong. By the way, I just registered www.mykrowzoft.com. (I would have taken mykrowsoft.com, but someone in Hawaii already owns it.) Bring it on!...

Another Apple Trademark: Numbers

Another Apple Trademark: Numbers 06/17/2005 03:35 PM

By Ina Fried, CNET News.com

Mozilla Trademark Policy Finalised

Mozilla Trademark Policy Finalised 06/17/2005 07:23 PM

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StarGeek: Layering it On To Find Your
Users

StarGeek: Layering it On To Find Your
Users 02/04/2003 08:40 AM

Stargeek.com: Making Search Engines Love
PHP

Stargeek.com: Making Search Engines Love
PHP 12/30/2003 09:40 AM
Most PHP coders know how to get the job done and create that "perfect script" that all the world needs to know about. So, you post it out there on a website and wait for the kudos to come rolling in. So, you wait...and wait...and wait...and, well, you get the idea. You need to find a better way to get the search engines to sit up and take notice of you. That's where this new article from Stargeek.com comes in.

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