During the 2008 presidential campaign, you could barely go anywhere without seeing the Obama “Hope” image on a poster, t-shirt or bumper sticker. Since then, the iconic image has become the focus of an intense debate about fair use in copyright law. Critics of artist Shepard Fairey’s work call it mere theft, while supporters commend [...]
The ringing in of the New Year marked not only the end of a decade, but also the end of an era for New York landmark Tavern on the Green. January 1st marked the expiration of the operating license for the Leroy family, who had operated the restaurant since the 1970s, and had successfully maintained [...]
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 [...]
Live Blog of the Fordham Center for Law & Information Policy “Third Law & Information Society Symposium” — Intermediaries in the Information Society
Panel, “Why is Tiffany Blue? 3rd Party Liability and the eBay Cases”
Moderator: Susan Scafidi
Panelists: William R. Engles, Jr.; Frederick Felman, Joseph C. Gioconda, Randi W. Singer, James B. Swire.
[Blogged live by Jason Lunardi, [...]
By Amanda B. Agati
There is something palpably wrong about the current state of copyright protection for fashion design, or lack thereof. To illustrate, Steve Madden, a brand notorious for copycatting, sunk to a new low in the Fall of 2007, when its graphic designers stole not only the design, but the actual photograph of Christian [...]
By: Tom Fawkes
“I still find it amusing how Tivo’s lawyers get [angry] when you use their name as a verb. (A couple of years ago, I got a nasty note from them for doing it, and it pretty much happens all the time.) The fear is that the general public will just think of “Tivo” [...]
By: Jeffrey Dicker
The Lanham Act provides that a trademark is infringed when it is used in commerce. 15 U.S.C. § 1125. With the rise of e-commerce and internet business, defining how something is used in commerce has become more difficult. This problem becomes even more difficult when dealing with a trademark used in a domain [...]