Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log

Via Zach Schrag, Inside Higher Ed reports on what appear to be deliberate misrepresentations by some schools to improve their reports on un...

Lapine v. Seinfeld, 2009 WL 2902584 (S.D.N.Y.) Missy Chase Lapine sued Jessica Seinfeld and her publishers for copyright and trademark ...

Pfizer Inc. v. Sachs, 2009 WL 2876255 (S.D.N.Y.) Roughly a year ago, Sachs towed a rocket through Manhattan to promote a business, JetA...

Stayart v. Yahoo! Inc., 2009 WL 2840478 (E.D. Wis.) Beverly Stayart searched her own name and “didn’t like the results.” She got lin...

Star-Brite Distributing, Inc. v. Kop-Coat, Inc., --- F.Supp.2d ----, 2009 WL 2840723 (S.D. Fla.) Star-Brite’s StarTron competes with Ko...

And, vitally, comments on materials that have been taken down, according to the NYT . This is full DMCA compliance, just a different way of...

Locked down, crippled, and difficult .

American Traffic Solutions, Inc. v. Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc., 2009 WL 2714017 (D. Ariz.) The parties compete to sell and operate t...

The most noticeable thing for me about this ad, featured in the NYT story on NYC's new anti-obesity campaign , was the familiar (registe...

Federal Trade Commission v. Trudeau, 2009 WL 2615822 (7th Cir.) In a mixed ruling, the court of appeals upheld a contempt finding again...

FTC v. Lane-Labs USA, Inc. (D.N.J. Aug. 11, 2009) Liability under the Lanham Act and the FTC Act is strict. What about liability unde...

One of the most interesting pieces I've read in a while: Lawrence Liang, Piracy, Creativity and Infrastructure: Rethinking Access to Cul...

Meatwater .

In the future, everyone will monetize their 15 minutes . Google, what happened to "don't be evil"? Is this the world you rea...

NSFW. It's a sex toy; it sparkles . Some of the promo text: The Vamp [has] a deathly pale flesh tone reminiscent of the new moon's...