Rick has blogged pretty extensively about BMG v. Cox Communications, including two about why the “Sony Betamax Rule,” as commonly understood, didn’t apply. Those ideas are now distilled into a single article over at Copyright and New Media Law (vol....
A PEDAL TAVERN by Any Other Name Would Still Be as Annoying On my way back to Nashville (from Los Angeles) last week, I found myself in the back of the plane with not one, but two bachelorette parties. It wasn’t quite noon (Pacific time), but several of the members...
Trademark Registrations Are Important, but Not the Way Many Markholders Think In my high school “health and guidance” class, I was taught that you can’t sober up a drunk with coffee. All you get, I was told, was a wide-awake drunk. Although now stimulated, the guy’s...
Today’s Lesson: Don’t Be a %$*!# A little bit of legal knowledge can be a most troublesome thing. Readers of The IP Breakdown know that implied copyright licenses1As opposed to express copyright licenses, where the terms of the license—the license’s terms and...
Swimming with the Shark Tank If you’re a fan of Shark Tank, one of the more interesting pitches was by Rachel Zietz in 2016, a (then) fifteen-year old lacrosse player and entrepreneur. She said she was tired of the lousy lacrosse equipment she had been buying from the...
