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In a pair of cutting-edge First Amendment cases, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that school officials cannot discipline students for ridiculing their principals on MySpace during their hours away from school.

There can be significant economic efficiencies realized by moving to the cloud. However there are also potential risks involved if an entity does not adequately consider the information governance implications, especially those involving electronic discovery.

The organization that governs the Domain Name System, ICANN, voted late last month to launch the new application process for an unlimited number of new top-level domains, despite lingering doubts and objections from trademark owners and others.

Trademark infringers have preyed on the fertile software marketplaces opened by companies like Apple and Google by offering apps for download under names that are identical or confusingly similar to other well-known brand names. These online trademark bandits are effectively engaging in a form of "i-piracy," whereby they attempt to profit from the goodwill associated with established trademarks by pirating those marks for use in their own knock-off apps.

Members in Expos' When Music Act Gained Success Own Common Law Rights to Name
Right of Publicity and Trademark Rulings on "Dillinger Tommy Guns" in Videogames

A Finnish record company's claim that pop music producer Timbaland and pop star Nelly Furtado plagiarized its music was thrown out of court by a Miami, FL, federal magistrate in the Southern District of Florida.

The following article takes a general intellectual-property approach to trademark infringement from the perspectives of both trademark holders and product importers, while providing much useful, technical information for entertainment industry professionals.

The Tennessee Court of Appeals, at Nashville, reversed and remanded a trial court ruling against Clint Black in the country artist's suit against his former business manager. This case is notable not only for statute-of-limitations issues, but also involves business-management partnership liability, as well as the line between accounting and business management services.