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RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use (Dennis M. Kennedy):
So your ability to continue to make copies of your own CDs on your own iPod is entirely a matter of [the RIAA's] sufferance.
Domain Name Containing Trademark Translation is Determined Confusingly Similar:
Interesting WIPO case (D2005-1085): Complainant (Saint-Exupery estate) owns "Le Petit Prince" in EU, US, and other countries. The translation of "Le Petit Prince" is "The little prince". Respondent registered 'thelittleprince.com'. Is such a domain name confusingly similar to the trademark? more...
WIPO Crowing Again About "Cybersquatting":
Most of us would be put off if a court issued a press release cheering the number of prisoners its judges had put behind bars or the number of tenants it had helped landlords to evict. That seems antithetical to the neutral adjudication of disputes, and ethical rules regularly decry such "appearance of bias." Yet WIPO seems to think it perfectly natural to crow about its arbitrators' favoritism for complainants against "cybersquatters" in UDRP proceedings. It issued a release that reads like a solicitation for trademark claimants' business, not a promotion of neutral arbitration services...