Author Archives: Laura Nastase

Skipping Starbucks: Stigma and Shame Surround Ubiquitous Luxury Trademarks during the Recession

By Laura Nastase | October 1, 2009

At the beginning of the recession, New York grand dames, fearful that their lavish spending habits might prove shameful in these difficult economic times, began scurrying out of Tiffany’s with baubles hidden in brown paper bags. One story holds that around Christmas last year, Kathy Fuld, wife of Lehman Brothers Dick Fuld, asked sales [...]

Posted in Trademark | Leave a comment

iPod for the Queen: The Inter-Continental Copyright Kerfuffle

By Laura Nastase | April 21, 2009

By: Laura Nastase1
President Barack Obama’s April 2009 trip to Europe has been exhaustively chronicled from political, fashion, and protocol perspectives. But commentators have skipped almost entirely over the fact that President Obama may have breached both copyright law and the iTunes licensing agreements by giving Queen Elizabeth II an iPod. True, these are [...]

Posted in Copyright, General | 6 Comments