- Amplify Your Voice is reporting the receipt of a cease-and-desist for posting a video of Derek Dye the Abstinence Clown. Dye’s clown work is apparently underwritten by Elizabeth’s New Life Center, an abstinence-only organization that received an $800,000 federal grant in 2007.
- The NYTimes is reporting on the continued “antagonistic” relationship between Apple and the major labels.
- The Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California will present a CLE “The Copyright Office Comes to California” on February 18 and 20, in L.A. and San Francisco. Presenters include: Marybeth Peters (Register of Copyrights); David Carson (General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office); Tanya Sandros (Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office); Maria Pallante (Associate Register for Policy & International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office); Linda Gill (Chief of the Performing Arts Division, U.S. Copyright Office); as well as a host of industry, academic and practitioner uber-lawyers.
- The NYTimes is running an article on fears over monopoly abuse in regards to Google Book Search.
- The EFF is reporting that it has reached a settlement for Savitri Durkee, an “activist concerned with preserving the character of Union Square and Union Square Park” who was running a parody website. The Union Square Partnership, a group “backing develpment in the area” had brought suit alleging, among other claims, copyright infringement.
- MacWorld is reporting that Nintendo has demanded the pulling of Lawl Mart’s Duck Hunt iPhone application.
- The Association of College and Research Libraries’ national conference will feature a panel titled “Thinking Critically About Copyright: Who Needs It (and Why?).” Presenters include Dwayne K. Buttler (University of Louisville), Donna L. Ferullo (Director, University Copyright Office, Purdue University), Kenneth D. Crews (Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University) and Janice T. Pilch (Associate Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The conference will be held March 12-15 in Seattle, Washington.
- San Francisco State University is requesting papers for a conference on “assertions of rights by insurgent groups, resistance to rights claims, and governmental efforts to suppress or promote rights.” (h/t Legal History Blog.)
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