Thursday, March 26, 2009

Hernando de Soto on property and the financial crisis

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I thought this article in the WSJ was really interesting. De Soto argues that a lack of a recording system for derivatives is a key compon...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Public Citizen's guide for citizen-bloggers

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Public Citizen explains the guide as follows: This is a guide for bloggers and non-profit organizations about writing with libel considerati...

Dastar bars express misattribution claim

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Pot Luck, L.L.C. v. Freeman, 2009 WL 693611 (S.D.N.Y.) A very interesting case in which Dastar was used to bar what I would have thoug...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Announcement: Fordham Symposium on Law in the Information Society

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Intermediaries in the Information Society March 27, 2009 PANEL DISCUSSIONS Content and the CDA Immunity When do—and when should—intermed...

Hofstra Conference on Energy and the Environment: Empowering Consumers

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A Threat to Consumer Empowerment: Greenwashing Me: I’m interested in how consumers understand advertising claims in general. The claims w...
Friday, March 20, 2009

IP/Gender: Save the Date

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Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property April 23 & 24, 2009 American University Was...

Salad days for defendant who altered "best when purchased by" dates

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United States v. Farinella, -- F.3d --, 2009 WL 615408 (7th Cir.) A Posner opinion can be expected to entertain; if you’d rather read t...

Amy Adler on moral rights

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Amy M. Adler, Against Moral Rights , 97 Cal. Rev. 263 (2008). An excerpt: This essay seeks to undermine the foundations of moral right...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Who's the patron saint of disappointed postulants?

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Hoyle v. Dimond, 2009 WL 604899 (W.D.N.Y.) Defendants operate the not-for-profit Most Holy Family Monastery (MHFM). Hoyle entered the...

Supplier turned competitor faces false advertising and trademark claims

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Irwin Industrial Tool Co. v. Worthington Cylinders Wisconsin, LLC, 2009 WL 606218 (W.D.N.C.) Irwin does business as BernzOmatic. It su...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Google Book Settlement at Georgetown

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Last week, Georgetown held a symposium on the Google Book Settlement. I was unable to attend, but Siva Vaidhyanathan and James Grimmelmann ...

Reading list: trademarks as false advertising

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J. Shahar Dillbary, Trademarks as a Media for False Advertising I saw this paper presented a few weeks back . Here's the abstract: ...
Monday, March 16, 2009

The seven dwarves of menopause

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Dave Wieneke pointed out that images of Disney's Seven Dwarves are circulating along with an apparently popular meme naming the seven d...

Conference announcement: Gender on the Frontiers

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Columbia Journal of Gender and Law presents its Triennial Symposium: April 10, 2009 9:30 am- 5:00 pm Room 107 Jerome Greene Hall ...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Organization for Transformative Works membership drive

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In its first year, the OTW has done a number of wonderful things: built Fanlore , a fan-run wiki; launched a journal, Transformative Works a...
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