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• And the Most Pirated Movie Award goes to …

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
  According to today’s NY Times, the most pirated movie of 2009 was the popular Star Trek prequel. The award for “most notorious film piracy”, however, goes to X-Men Origins:  Wolverine which made it to illegal file-sharing avenues on the Internet one month before being released in the theaters. Other ...
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• Best of 2009: “While my guitar gently weeps”

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  This was first posted on March 31, 2009.One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® was about Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d 1911 (M.D. Tenn. 2004), and the question of whether “only a Gibson guitar can make a Gibson-looking guitar.” Not long after that decision came [...]
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• Star Trek the most-pirated film of 2009

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 166
  Paramount’s worst fears are confirmed: “Star Trek” was the most pirated film of 2009, according to a new report.In October, the studio told the Federal Communications Commission that “Star Trek” had become a hot commodity in piracy circles. Illegal file-sharing had advanced from “geek to sleek,” ...
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• Best of 2009: “Intellectual property and its digestion”

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  This was first posted on February 20, 2009:Back and forth in in social networking space — once Facebook, I digest some key ingredients of intellectual property as it applies to famous burgers (reprinted with Ivan’s permission):Ivan Kevin AlexanderToday at 10:35amHi Ron,I had an interesting IP question/hypo ...
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• Star Trek Jingle Bells

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
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• Sherlock Holmes and The Sparks

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
  Here’s just a little free association for what I hope are ongoing happy holidays for everyone. Sherlock Holmes opens on Christmas Day and is a front runner for holiday films I want to see. I happen to think that Robert Downey Jr. is in a great groove. I loved his acting in Chaplin and am quite pleased to see that ...
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• It’s a Wonderful Copyright Mess

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 793
  Why is the beloved film, aired year-round on several channels a couple decades ago, now only on NBC twice a year?
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• Condé Nast Sues over Hacked GQ Pages Leaked by Anonymous Blogger

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  Condé Nast has filed an infringement lawsuit in hopes it will learn the identity of an anonymous hacker who stole online GQ content before the magazine hit newsstands. The material found its way to the blog FashionZag, published by an anonymous blogger, Women’s Wear Daily reports. The blog published the ...
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• So shoe me!

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  Staci Riordan reports on the big shoe-vs.-shoe design lawsuit everyone’s talking about — invoking copyright plus one Lanham Act and two New York law varieties of “unfair competition” that seems to fold in a trade dress claim (huh?) — between a couple of shoe designer guys, such as they are.  Regarding ...
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• Best of 2009: “Adverference?”

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  This was originally published on January 22, 2009:Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured out what was going on with banner ads on my Internet browsing. It raises an interesting question about Internet-related copyright and trademark law.We use a ...
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• Mandatory vs. Permissive Copyright Exceptions and Limitations

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
  [ H/T here to the IPKat, and particularly the AmeriKat. ] In this recent post I pointed to the recent statement of the United States at the WIPO meeting considering an proposed international treaty governing copyright in works for persons who are blind, visually impaired or have other disabilities . Earlier in ...
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• Copyright 2.0 Show – Episode 134

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 425
  It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. It was a busy week for copyright news last week as copyright holders, courts and judges begin to wind down for the year and clean off their plates for the holidays and the new year. However, not all of the action was in ...
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• 3 Count: Avatar Oops

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 425
  Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: No Decrease in Illegal Downloading, says BPI First off today, A survey conducted for the British Phonographic Industry reports that, in the UK, illegal file sharing is on the rise, even as more legal downloading alternatives come ...
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• Will Copyright Kill eHealth?

  
  Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets — Authority: 457
  Pages:  1 2 There is a metric ton of cash that’s being poured into eHealth initiatives , and to date it doesn’t appear that governments are recognizing the relationship between copyright law and eHealth. That makes a lot of sense in some ways – when most of us think ‘medicine’ and ‘doctor’ we ...
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• 4th International Plagiarism Conference

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 425
  I’m a bit late in reporting this, but I wanted to let everyone know that the 4th International Plagiarism Conference is scheduled for June 21-23 at Northumbria University in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. I attended and spoke at the 3rd conference in 2008 and it was a great conference with a lot to see and do. ...
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• 3 Count: French Toast

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 425
  Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: Fine for Google Over French Books First off today, Google has suffered a setback with its Google Book Search project as a court in France has ordered Google to pay 300,000 euros (approx $430,000) to French publisher La Martiniere ...
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• Rapidshare Goes The Legal Lane - Partners With Warner Bros. Planing Launch Of Movie Download Site

  
  Megaleecher.Net - Making technology work for you... — Authority: 469
  In an somewhat unexpected news top file-hoster Rapidshare has entered into an partnership with Warner Bros. and is planning to launch a legal paid movie download website, in preparation of the upcoming paid downloading service the company has already started providing legal trailer downloads of movies to its ...
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• Lucasfilm Loses to Stormtrooper in U.K.

  
  Slaw — Authority: 592
  The Court of Appeal for England and Wales has ruled against Lucasfilm in its breach of copyright suit against Andrew Ainsworth, the British designer who produced the Stormtrooper costume for the Star Wars films. ( Lucasfilm Limited et al. v. Andrew Ainsworth [2009] EWCA Civ 1328 ) Ainsworth had been selling a few ...
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• Obama Administration Serious About Jobs, Creators

  
  The Copyright Alliance Blog — Authority: 411
  Three cheers to the Obama Administration for hosting Tuesday at the White House a key jobs summit, one involving the jobs of creators and their collaborators in creation. The Associated Press quoted the host of the event, Vice president Joseph Biden, as saying of copyright piracy: “This is flat unadulterated ...
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• More on New Moon and Copyright Piracy …

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
  Further to my recent post on the issue of the women jailed for recording a few minutes of the Twilight sequel, New Moon , it has been announced that the charges against her have been dropped and she has been released from custody.  A news story here contains interesting statements from both the producers of ...
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