Riches, McKenzie & Herbert LLP (Canadian Trademark Blog) Canadian Private Copying Collective and Best Buy resolve private copying dispute (Michael Geist) 200,000 pirated DVDs confiscated in GTA mall raids; Industry group behind 2-month operation suspects 'hard-core' retailers are linked to organized crime (ContentAgenda) After successfully battling Kraft before Supreme Court, Euro-Excellence settles with Kraft in copyright battle over parallel importation of chocolates… [read post]

(Laura Empson of Cass Business School gave a particularly nice presentation on this at lunchtime Thursday, positing that useful ways of thinking about partnership might be as analogous to The Three Musketeers, to Henry V's famous "band of brothers" speech before the Battle of Agincourt, to a buccaneer pirate ship, or, at last, to "Gone With the Wind. [read post]