Random Chatlines--Week of June 4th

  • The Seattle Trademark Lawyer is keeping tabs on the litigation over the publicity rights of Jimi Hendrix.
  • In a case involving libel, foreign judgments and personal jurisdiction, check out the Second Circuit's decision in Ehrenfeld v. Mahfouz.
  • William Patry discusses the Supreme Court's decision overruling Conley v. Gibson at The Patry Copyright Blog.
  • Ron Coleman at Likelihood of Confusion gives a good lesson on How Not to Build a Brand.  Got that cease and desist yet?
  • The New York Assembly has passed legislation that would, among other things, make it a class E felony to disseminate "violent and indecent video games" to minors.  According to the summary of the bill, the justification for the bill is that "[p]sychological experts have concluded that there is a connection between playing violent video games and violent behavior[.]"
  • People were talking about a Macmillan exec's rather lame attempt to "teach Google a lesson" by taking two of Google's laptops from the company's booth at Book Expo America in New York, which apparently was intended to reflect the exec's feelings about Google Book Search.  Lawrence Lessig, ars technica and others weighed in on the discussion.
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