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Author: Dave Wieneke is an interactive marketing manager at Thomson CompuMark inNorth Quincy, Mass.

Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Trademark Law

Recent Posts from UsefulArts.us

Beating Censors With the World’s Only Whiteboard Based Blog
In Monrovia, Liberia, there’s a guy taking the matter of a lopsided, state-run media and reshaping it into a free-of-charge, independent news-aggregator—all accomplished with a whiteboard and couple of markers. (No Internet required!) Each morning,…
Pay for Play Raises Concerns from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant to Paris Hilton’s Twitters
Discussions of regulating digital marketing were just below the surface at New York Ad:Tech. My last post gave an overview of efforts to regulate digital marketing. Now, here’s an interview at Ad:Tech by reporter David…
Regulation is Headed Toward Digital Marketing. Do Something
Nobody Has Noticed, But Regulation is Nearer Than You Might Imagine Earlier this year, the FCC signaled its intent to regulate the Internet. States such as Massachusetts have considered a prohibition against tracking users between…
Ad-Tech New York Kicks Off on Full Strength
My colleague Dan Slagen and I arrived to find sprawling lines of digital marketers waiting to get into the Javitz. I think that’s a good sign for the industry, if not a sign of increased…
Hitler Schools Constantin Films on Copyright and Viral Marketing
Brad Templeton, chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has produced his own “Downfall” parody video, making fun of the fact that Constantin Films has issued DMCA notices to remove all of the…
Teen Burglars Use Tabloid Smarts to Rob Celebrities
In a season where teen vampires are all the rage, can a drama following a real-life band of teen burglars looting celebrities be far behind? (For Halloween, I’ll be dressed as them!) The Net was…
Website Competitive Intelligence: Don’t Manage to Bogus Data
How can you determine the size of a blog or website’s traffic? Finding reliable website competitive intelligence benchmarks is hugely important, and a real challenge on the web. Too often people buy-in to bogus measures.…
Peter Quinn & How Microsoft Smeared Its Way to Winevitability
The InformationWeek cover story had two elements. First was the illustration, which featured a compass with Windows 7 at true North, the headline “Winevitable,” and the question of how you will get there. That’s the…
Design For Obama: The Website and Book
I’ve written about “Brand Obama” previously; now, here’s a huge installment. RISD grad Aaron Perry-Zucker hoisted a website called Design for Obama, where artists up- and downloaded Obama poster designs during and after the election.…
Superhero Law: Every Geek Lawyer’s Specialty
“Give me your superhumans, your technological geniuses, your mutated masses yearning to fight crime.” What geek can resist a blog dedicated to considering how US laws would be applied to superheros? After all, Superman is…