Your web browsing history is exactly as safe from surveillance by the federal government as it was yesterday. Which is to say, not wide open, but not wildly safe either. The Hype Yesterday afternoon a vote took place in the United States Senate. Headlines emerged...
Folks in Louisville already know this, but the rest of the world might be surprised – DERBY-PIE is a registered trademark. Not only is it a registered trademark, the owner of that trademark, Mr. Alan Rupp, is known to be a vigorous enforcer of his rights. All things...
Songwriters: The Ninth Circuit Might Actually Have Heard You When the Blurred Lines verdict was reached—and again when it was upheld, twice—there were many stories about how the decision cast a pall on songwriting. What if I, a songwriter, accidentally wrote the...
A Layer Cake, or a Tower of Babel? Toward a General Theory and Test for Selection and Arrangement in Copyright Law One of the most bedeviling copyright concepts is… well, it has lots of different names. In the recent “Stairway to Heaven” decision, it was called...
Wherein Some Bad Old Mistakes Are Fixed, but Led Zeppelin Need Suffer No Longer The last couple of times I blogged about the “Stairway to Heaven” case, I was defending the Ninth Circuit’s decision to send the case back down to the trial court for a re-do, even though...
There’s little doubt that STELLA ROSA wines are popular. I’ve never tried them, but I am assured by wine critic Patrick Comiskey that they “resemble wine, they’re reminiscent of wine, but no one who drinks wine regularly would mistake it for wine.” It is, however,...
