Misc.

3 Geeks and a Law Blog about social network policies for law firms.

I often wondered if farmers building corn mazes complied with copyright laws: well, they do.

Fashion law attorneys will need to brush up on their patent law skills if the trend of creating suits protecting its wearer against the flu takes off...

Travolta Dress

That is a beautiful dress designed by Castelbajac. Fashion, Right of Publicity, and John Travolta, some of my favorite things mixed together, things could not be better.

NB. John Travolta, as dressed in SNF, just like Dustin Hoffman in his Tootsies character, was digitally altered in the Los Angeles Hollywood issues that lead to Dustin Hofman suing the magazine for violation of his right of publicity (and losing). Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 255 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir. 2001.) Interesting how the right of publicity may protect one's image as one character(Tootsies, or say, Tony Manero, or as one person, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta.) The Castelbajac dress pictures John Travolta in his twenties, but not as a particular character though.

Protection de Boucles d’Oreilles par un Brevet Américain

Des boucles d’oreilles crées par Sonya Ooten sont protégées depuis cette année par un brevet américain, numéro D544,389. Ces boucles d'oreilles sont en métal crocheté et sont désormais protégées jusqu’en 2021.

Museum Blogging

A forthcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute will be named blog.mode:addressing fashion. Visitors will be able to use a "blogbar" to share their opinions about the exhibit. Curators will read comments daily and respond to them, engaging thus the dialogue.

The show will feature pieces recently acquired by the Costume Institute, and will include clothes and accessories designed by contemporary designers such as Helmut Lang, Donna Karan and Miguel Androver.

Will It Also Guard Python Shoes?

Via Boing Boing, this rather disconcerting bit of news (no pun intended.) Harrods hired a cobra to guard their shoe department... Even if it is for one day only, it leads to some (legal) questions. Again, I am a (traumatized ) recent bar examinee, and learned dutifully that one can not use deadly force in order to protect one's property.

A cobra kills, as attested in the beautiful book, The River, by Rumer Godden. A gem.