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...Ebert has been battling serious medical problems for the past two years and has been off the air since the summer of 2006. But his departure now stems from a dispute with Disney, the distributor for At the Movies, over the show's famous trademark thumbs-up/thumbs-down verdict on films. The rights to that trademark belong to Ebert and the widow of Gene Siskel, Ebert's original co-host. Ebert's departure from the show apparently comes after he and Disney could not come to an agreement on compensation related to the trademark...
...absolutely trilled," Harrington said in his trademark Irish brogue after his victory, before adding, characteristically, "I'm quite enjoying this [acceptance speech]. I don't think I'll get off the stage...
...sell a Wii remote control on a retailer's site and advertises it as a Wiimote, or if a customer posts a review of the Wii remote control and gushes, "I love the Wiimote," it's more than likely adding to the online deluge washing away the Weemote trademark. As a result, Amazon.com is among dozens of online companies receiving letters from Fobis this month asking them to erase Wiimote from their advertising, metatags and other marketing channels, overt or covert. If they refuse, Fobis may consider filing suits to make them comply...
...calls the postings of "third-party merchants" on its site, and the federal court's eBay ruling would seem to back up that argument. But even if the ruling says commercial sites like Amazon.com aren't required to police themselves, it does make it clear that if a trademark holder like Fobis discovers an infringement on one of those sites, it can play cybercop itself and demand that the site remove it. Still, companies like Fobis and Tiffany complain that merely having to pluck out the offending material is hardly the same as having to face punitive consequences that might...
...which, Edwards argues, not only diminishes the worth of trademark protection in the Internet age, but also discourages grass-roots entrepreneurship. "Our best inventions have usually come from the little guy," says Edwards. "I see this trend dissuading them." If she's right, it would be one more example of how the Internet promises us everything except accountability...