entertainment

Trademark Lessons from "Jersey Shore"

February 25, 2010 14:09

At the risk of giving the readers of this blog the wrong impression about my tastes in entertainment, I have to mention the MTV show Jersey Shore. In just a few months, this reality television series about a group of proud New Jerseyans (or Jersyeites?) living at a beach house in the Garden...

"Attractive Nuisance" or "Acoustic Nuisance": Trademark Challenges and Rock Band Names

February 22, 2010 14:45

I learned early on in my "musical career" (I love saying that!) that if I was willing to just play rhythm guitar, I always had a place in the band. That's me in the blue hat, playing with my law school band at the late, lamented King Louie's in St. Louis, before it was the...

"Musical Prozac" -- The Angel Band Project

Pete Salsich III
February 01, 2010 23:23

Sometimes you get lucky and get to work on something that you just feel good about.  That's the case right now.  We're helping some good friends with an amazing project that's all about turning horrible grief into something lasting and uplifting.  Please check out The Angel...

Media & Communications Briefing Highlights Privacy Issues

January 15, 2010 15:11

The fifth edition of Hogan & Hartson’s Media & Communications Briefing, whose editor-in-chief is Hogan Partner Winston Maxwell, has arrived!  (Winston also is a member of the privacy and data security practice group.) This quarterly...

Magic Image

December 07, 2009 04:01

Laura Sanders wrote an interesting article, titled “SPECIALIS REVELIO!  It’s not magic, it’s neuroscience,” in ScienceNews. Here are some excerpts. * * * Skill in manipulating people’s perceptions has earned magicians a new group of spellbound fans: Scientists seeking to learn how the ey...