Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log

This story about using ringtones as self-expression is another illustration of how copying serves the production of individuality in modern...

Pfizer Inc. v. Superior Court , --- Cal.Rptr.3d ----, 2006 WL 1892581 (Cal.App. 2 Dist.) This was a follow-on class action based on Pfi...

I have a post up at the Georgetown Law Faculty Blog about child custody and the First Amendment, discussing a recent article by Eugene Volo...

This story discusses JFJ's conflict with the New York MTA over JFJ's use of subway symbols in its ad campaign. You can see the rev...

Keith R. Fisher, Toward a Basal Tenth Amendment: A Riposte to National Bank Preemption of State Consumer Protection Laws , 29 Harvard J. L. ...

That's the title of this post by an author about a bad review, and the thoughts about inability to control interpretation it inspired.

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, L.P. v. Merix Pharmaceutical Corp., 2006 WL 1792856 (3rd Cir.) Glaxo makes Abreva, an OTC pharmace...

Cobras in the Cockpit : based on a "fictional movie" (as opposed to an actual movie?), you play the snakes. While the idea is so ...

The U.S. Copyright Code, in verse . A for effort, B for rhyme. Best stanzas: 302 A copyright lasts seventy years After you're dead Or ...

The Trademark Blog discusses the role of trademarks in the virtual reality game Second Life. ( Other takes ; see also Counterfeit Chic o...

Eric Goldman discusses reports of oral argument in the Kinderstart v. Google case; the judge's comments about misleadingness hint that...

Ken Jennings, famous (?) for multiple Jeopardy wins, has a blog on which he discusses how to write a trivia book that won't infringe c...

Arrow Rock International, Inc. v. Dex Media Inc., 2006 WL 1793554 (D. Idaho) The parties compete in the market for telephone directorie...

Higgins v. Superior Court , --- Cal. Rptr. 3d ----, 2006 WL 1740931 ( Cal. App. 2 Dist.) Homeowners invited five orphaned siblings to...

Jones v. Ground Zero Entertainment, 2006 WL 1788949 (S.D.N.Y.) Plaintiff, publicly known as Lil’ Kim, used to be a member of the rap gr...