Miller’s Ale House: How Not to Name Your Restaurant It’s always astonishing to me that businesses will invest countless dollars in every aspect of their operations while relying on a name that will only bring legal issues. Case in point: Miller’s Ale House, Inc. v. Boynton Carolina Ale House.
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Is it the Super Bowl or The Big Game?
January 31, 2013
Is it the Super Bowl or The Big Game? The NFL playoffs are over, the AFC and NFC championships have been decided, and you know what that means: lots of advertisements about “The Big Game!” Which Big Game? The Super Bowl, of course. Everyone knows it’s called the Super Bowl. Why do advertisers and businesses large and small use the codeword “Big Game?” Can we all just use the term “Super Bowl” after all?
Myspace Relaunches, Encounters Copyright Issue
January 25, 2013
Myspace Relaunches, Encounters Copyright Issue Remember MySpace? Well, it’s back – this time, as Myspace. Maybe the newly private, scaled-down business couldn’t afford the capital “S.” The site relaunched last week and immediately ran into a copyright infringement issue.
Judge Rules News Agencies Can’t Use Twitter Photos Without Permission
January 18, 2013
Judge Rules News Agencies Can’t Use Twitter Photos Without Permission In a landmark social media law case, a Federal judge in New York ruled this week that news agencies can’t publish photos found on Twitter without the photographer’s permission. Neither the fact that the photos were certainly newsworthy – they portrayed images of the devastating earthquake in Haiti – nor that Twitter allows anyone to reproduce the photos (via re-Tweeting) were enough to overcome the photographer’s rights under copyright law.
