[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions]
I just came back from seeing the new Pixar animated film Up .  It’s a charracteristically charming Pixar effort; all thumbs up!  Plus, I got these neat-o 3D glasses.  There’s a little IP angle to the film, though, and I want to use that to anchor this last of my guest posts.
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Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of … ah, you know the rest. Exploration and the idea of frontiers seem to capture an important part of the human experience. The possibility of finding something new, of entering uncharted territories excites people. And, although one may want to keep the secret of the Northwest [...]

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Yet another reason to simply laugh at the claims that porn is “under attack” in this country; it could hardly be more mainstream.

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Not exactly sure what the takeaway is supposed to be…

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It’s a fantastic blog.

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From Business Week:
This summer, the government agency is expected to issue new advertising guidelines that will require bloggers to disclose when they’re writing about a sponsor’s product and voicing opinions that aren’t their own. The new FTC guidelines say that blog authors should disclose when they’re being compensated by an advertiser to discuss a product.
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[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions]
This recent New Yorker piece about “Baselworld,” the annual watchmakers’ confab in Switzerland (Patricia Marx, “Face Value,” May 25, 2009) included a throwaway line that I found fascinating.  Baselworld is so large that it has its own police force and “a judiciary to settle trademark disputes.” Whoa. Huh?

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Slashdot reports that “The Wikimedia Foundation has resolved to migrate the copyright licensing of all of its wiki projects, including Wikipedia, from the GNU Free Documentation License to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Here is the WikiFoundation site explanation for the change:
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has proposed that the copyright licensing terms [...]

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[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions]
The world is again safe for trademark law, now that the National Rifle Association has put an end to efforts at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to name the university’s eagle mascot “Eddie.”
For 20 years, the eagle has been the mascot of athletic teams at UW-L. Only earlier this month, however, did [...]

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From here:

The Big Ten collegiate conference has eleven schools but they didn’t want to change their name. However, they used their logo to hide the numerical “11” in the name.
Many more at the source site.

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[Cross-posted in part from Concurring Opinions]
I posted earlier about the Virginia Law Review In Brief responses to Dotan Oliar’s and Chris Sprigman’s UVa Law Review article, There’s No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy, 94 Va. L. Rev. 1787 (2008).
In Brief just published Oliar and Sprigman’s [...]

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Following up on Ann’s post yesterday, and cross-posted from Concurring Opinions:
Yesterday, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University’s Washington College of Law and the Center for Social Media at AU’s School of Communication released “Remix Culture: Fair Use Is Your Friend,” a video that accompanies and explains the Code of Best [...]

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[Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions]
By popular request, I’m posting this link to my brief appearance in this morning’s New York Times.  (Well, the link is popular in certain quarters, and I did receive a request to post it!)   The story has to do with tomorrow’s mayoral primary, in which Pittsburgh’s young mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, front man for [...]

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From Stacey Jackson-Roberts at American University Washington College of Law:
American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and AU’s Center for Social Media, in collaboration with Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project, are launching a new video explaining how online video creators can make remixes, mashups, and other common [...]

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This. I’m guessing the product name is “merely descriptive” but will not be doing any empirical research on the question.

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