Hey, you, authors! You do NOT have a right to prevent the reading-aloud of your works. Copyright protects the copying, recording, public performance, or distribution of your works. None of that is going on in the Kindle electronic text-to-speech function. Text-to-speech is like reading aloud to your kids, friends, or family members - which is NOT a ( Read more... )

US Trademark law has rules against allowing people to use primarily geographically descriptive terms as trademarks. Part of the test is that the term has to be a "name of a place known generally to the public"

So company tried to register "BAIKALSKAYA" as a name for a brand of vodka manufactured in Irkutsk, near Lake Baikal. It translates directly ( Read more... )