Geekview July 2011 IP Recap
Interesting IP issues are so common, that I've decided to start providing installments of Geekview -- a (usually weekly) review of the wonderfully wacky world of IP. Since I was…
Tit for Tat, Lawsuit for Tattoo
On Saturday my friend, Duane Peterson, e-mailed me a link to a New York Times article about a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Mike Tyson's tattoo artist, S. Victor Whitmill…
Loving the MIT Media Lab Logo
MIT Media Lab recently announced an awesome new logo, which consists of three colored searchlights that can be altered to create 40,000 different shapes, with 12 different color combinations. Each…
Betty Boop’s Bubble Bursts
Betty Boop was created by Max Fleischer in 1930. Fleischer sold his rights in the Betty Boop cartoon and character to Paramount Pictures (Paramount) in 1941. In 2006, Fleischer's heirs…
Bad Debt Hurts Brand Image (or does it?)
Hollywood, Esq. (formerly THR, Esq., when or why the change, I'm unsure) reported today that George Clinton's "former law firm," Hendricks & Lewis, seeks to garnish the performer's wages to…