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Minnesota State Fair’s officials asked Michele Bachmann and her running for Congress campaign to desist

using its logo in a television ad that began running this week.  The media will often use corporate logos

and/or trademarks in stories under the assumption that they are protected by “fair use”.

The Minnesota State Fair logo is trademarked and the Minnesota State Fair does not see it as fair use.
Michele Bachmann’s Congress campaign did not ask for permission to use the Minnesota State Fair logo.

The issue is that the State Fair can not endorse any candidate running for political office, so the inference

could be hazardous.

Consider that one of the rights accorded to the owner of a copyright is the right to reproduce or to

authorize others to reproduce the work in copies.

The fair did not give this permission.

This right by the holder is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the copyright

law (title 17, U. S. Code).  Through much litigation, these sections have come to define “fair use” as it

applies to the law, and this situation.

ICANN is searching for applicants from the Internet user community to occupy a seat on their Board of

Directors.
They hope to fill this position with those who may be interested in helping to develop policy, and are able to

serve on ICANN’s Board of Directors.

If you are reading this, you may qualify. Here are the requirements: you must be an Internet user who does

not represent a particular government, corporate or non-profit entity.

You will be the voice for the average everyday Internet user and try to represent the view of individuals who

often simply feel they don’t have a voice in policy formation.

You should have a broad international perspective and a background in Internet users’ interests, consumer

policy and/or civil society worldwide.

If you are interested, you can obtain more information by writing ICANN’s Board Candidate Evaluation

Committee at BCEC-Request@icann.org. The deadline to apply for the “At-Large Board seat” is September 6,

2010.

Just think, soon after taking your new position at ICANN, you may have to help out the US Government.

The White House has asked ICANN (and other entities) for a meeting to discuss illegal online pharmacies.

In an arbitration battle this week, Take-Two Interactive lost its fight for Bioshock.com to professional domain name purchaser, Name Administration Inc.

Name Administration is a Cayman Islands based company, that makes money from trading in and displaying advertisements on its massive network of domain names.

Normally, this type of business is not the expected winner in an escalation case.

Consider that Bioshock.com was acquired by Name Administration in December 2004. Coincidentally, this acquisition ocurred a shortly after rumors of Bioshock the game began circulating in October of that year. 

Name Administration made sure to note that the term Bioshock is wanted by more entities than Take-Two; Johnson & Johnson applied for the name at one point for their skin cleanser, and some companies nutritional products.

Perhaps most confusing is that Take-Two holds the trade mark registration for the Bioshock, but it was filed almost a year after the actual domain name was registered.

This fact assured that the TM could not serve as prior trade mark right to the domain name in this case.
Factor in that earlier this year, Take-Two’s lawyers acted to have the website transferred away from Name Administration. 

Algorithms are in the news this week and as far as that goes, this year.

In a surprising change, Yahoo and Bing are partnering up to take on Google.
Bing, to those who remember, used to be called “Live Search” and as part of the new deal is now going to power Yahoo searches.

Yahoo and Microsoft have been conspiring to take more of the market that Google has seemingly dominated  in recent memory.

This new partner ship between the two search engines, is projected to capture 31 percent of the market share, while Google maintains an approximate 85 percent share.

Despite this change in services, Yahoo insists that search functionality will not change.

For example, webmasters will still be able to use the “Build your Own Search Service”, Yahoo! Query Language, and Site Explorer.

In a less popular change, developers will now have to pay for utilizing the tools which used to be for free.

This deal only covers the search results portion of Yahoo services; other services will not be affected by the change except one; The only real casualty will be Yahoo SearchMonkey.