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  • Photo Attorney Blog Celebrates SEVEN YEARS!
    Today is the seventh anniversary of the Photo Attorney® blog! This blog is full of helpful information for the photographer's legal needs. With hundreds of blog entries on a variety of legal subjects that affect photographers, the best way to...
    by Carolyn E. Wright
    Posted: February 11, 2012
  • New look
    Depending on how you read the blog, you may have noticed that we have a new look. Since moving to WordPress I had been using the Atahualpa theme, and had been very happy with it. However, it is time to change things a bit, and I liked the look of the...
    by Andres
    Posted: February 11, 2012
  • Termination of Sound Recording Copyright Transfers
    Posted: February 11, 2012
  • Eps 227 - BTJunker
    It is Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. With Patrick on the road and unable to record last week, we have a lot of catching up to do as there's two week's worth of news to get through...
    by Jonathan Bailey
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • Friday's Endnotes - 02/10/12
    Hit record - Salon.com Editor-in-chief Kerry Lauerman reports on lessons his company has learned. Aggregation, staff cuts, and emphasis on churning out content - doesn't work. Focusing on originality, quality over quantity, and publishing less...
    by Terry Hart
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • Canada's Worst charity website contest - get a makeover
    London web developer rTraction (they did the new Harrison Pensa website) has just launched a contest that will result in a new website for a charity created for free by rTraction. Anyone can nominate a charity with a bad website. 10 finalists will be...
    by David Canton
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • 3 Count: Illegal Stream
    Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Appeals Lodged Against Optus Copyright Ruling First off today, in a move that will likely surprise no one, the Australian football (soccer) leagues NRL and AFL have...
    by Jonathan Bailey
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • Friday Fun Day!
    Rather than devote every post to some legal-y aspect of trademarks, I thought it'd be fun to devote Fridays to the lighter side of the trademark world. So... Welcome to Friday Fun Day! Today's post is dedicated to that fun-loving bunch -...
    by Shannon Moore
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • A new battleground of innovative and generic drug manufacturers?
    This Kat must admit a general ignorance of the law relating to access to government information, but Merpel insisted on knowing more after reading that the "Supreme Court opens trade secrets in Merck ruling." While Merck did lose its appeal...
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • How Should We Enforce Patents?
    Rizza Barnes of UC Irvine sent me a pointer to a new paper by Tomlinson and Torrance addressing this question. Bill Tomlinson is an Associate Professor of Informatics at UCI (and former colleague of mine from MIT days) and Andrew W. Torrance is a...
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • Reconsideration Motion Denied After Careful Consideration
    Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter d/b/a myVidster.com, No. 10 C 6517 Slip. Op. (N.D. Ill. Sep. 1, 2011) (Grady, J.). Judge Grady denied defendant's motion to reconsider its preliminary injunction, for the following reasons: The Court addressed...
    by R. David Donoghue
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • Friday fantasies
    Hurry -- for Gurry! Hurry for Gurry! Earlier this week the IPKat reported on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) survey, which provides a golden opportunity for people who use its services, or who are otherwise affected by its many...
    Posted: February 10, 2012
  • Teacher fired over Facebook post gets her job back
    Court invokes notion of "contextual integrity" to evaluate social media user's online behavior. Rubino v. City of New York, 2012 WL 373101 (N.Y. Sup. February 1, 2012) The day after a student drowned at the beach while on a field trip,...
    by Evan Brown (@internetcases)
    Posted: February 9, 2012
  • "Why has America stopped inventing?" or "It's not just Kats that rant"
    A very busy little book buzzed into this Kat's life a few days ago. It's called Why Has America Stopped Inventing? and its author is an energetic, indeed frenetic patent attorney by the name of Darin Gibby (his own website is here; his web...
    Posted: February 9, 2012
  • PissedConsumer.com: Ascentive v. Opinion Corp.
    I try to tread lightly with respect to blogging about cases I'm involved with, but there's not much question that the December 13, 2011 Eastern District of New York opinion in Ascentive, LLC v. Opinion Corp., 2011 WL 6181452 (E.D.N.Y. Dec....
    by Ron Coleman
    Posted: February 9, 2012
  • Global Intellectual Property (IP) Offshoring Panel Discussion - Trends and Challenges in IP Offshoring - 15 Feb 2012
    Andrew will speak about the IP issues surrounding outsourcing at a webinar sponsored by KPO Consultants (KPOC), a consulting and conference management company on February 15, 2012 at noon EST. The program is intended for: Buyers of legal outsourcing...
    by Andrew Berger
    Posted: February 9, 2012
  • Google Announces New Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
    Effective March 1, 2012, Google's new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service will go into effect. These changes are billed as simplifying and consolidating over 60 different privacy policies that apply to Google's library of services and tools...
    by Christina D. Frangiosa
    Posted: February 9, 2012
  • Going Wayback… and it's out of here!
    Originally posted 2007-09-05 13:13:55. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe TTABlog writes about a recent TTAB decision rejecting "Wayback Machine" data as evidence: The Board observed that the "Wayback Machine" suffers from a...
    by Ron Coleman
    Posted: February 9, 2012
  • Not my money
    Last June, blogging about my presentation to the Copyright Society on the Righthaven litigation, I wrote the following: This brings us to the issue of mass enforcement a la RIAA and MPAA Mass enforcement sweeps Complete de-linking from any concept of...
    by Ron Coleman
    Posted: February 9, 2012