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		<title>PIRATES NOT LIABLE FOR VIOLATING PUBLICITY RIGHTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal recently removed a weapon from the arsenal available to artists fighting video pirates.
In Jules Jordan v. 144942 Canada et al., the court reversed a multi-million dollar jury verdict in favor of adult film star Jules Jordan on claims that a distributor selling bootleg copies of Jules Jordan videos violated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=826</link>
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		<title>TIKI IS THE BARBER OF CIVIL [LAWSUIT], FIGARO!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although once idolized for his feats on the football field and later respected as an affable, Cheshire-grinned news and sports correspondent, these days Tiki Barber is making a lot of folks very unhappy. The short list presumably includes:
1. Ginny, Tiki&#8217;s wife of 11 years whom he allegedly left for a twenty-something year old intern while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=818</link>
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		<title>ELECTRONIC ARTS IN HOT WATER AGAIN OVER PUBLICITY RIGHTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has long been a debate regarding whether or not student athletes at the college level should receive financial compensation beyond their scholarships. Major universities make tens of millions of dollars from their athletic programs, but the athletes who generate all of that revenue get none of it. While there are numerous arguments on both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=814</link>
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		<title>RACHAEL RAY LASERS DELAYED INDEFINITELY: AN UPDATE ON THE STATE OF CYBERSQUATTING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like we&#8217;re all going to have to wait a little while longer to purchase our Rachael Ray lasers. At the very least, we&#8217;re not going to be able to order them online any time soon.
Cybersquatting is a practice as old as the Internet. It generally involves one party, the squatter, using the trademark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=810</link>
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		<title>WORLD CUP SPONSORSHIP SCANDALS SURE TO TAKE ATTORNEYS INTO EXTRA TIME</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For weeks now, soccer fans have been captivated by the World Cup, tuning in at odd hours to cheer for their respective teams. But given the ridiculous amounts of money involved in professional sports, stories of athletic prowess and come-back victories have been sharing the headlines with stories of the legal and business aspects of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=805</link>
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		<title>A GUIDE TO THE LAWS OF SELLING CELEBRITY SEX TAPES: WHY KENDRA MUST HAVE CONSENTED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s imagine that you and your eighteen-year-old girlfriend get bored one day and decide to make a sex tape. Let&#8217;s further imagine that your ex-girlfriend eventually breaks up with you but (thankfully) forgets to demand that you destroy the tape. Six years later the ex-girlfriend becomes a reality show star, and the sex tape sitting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=802</link>
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		<title>CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED INK?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently heard arguments in a case brought by a tattoo artist against the City of Hermosa Beach (a Los Angeles beach community) claiming that the City&#8217;s ban on tattoo parlors violated his free speech rights under the First Amendment. The artist, Johnny Anderson, asserts that his tattoos are visual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=798</link>
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		<title>TROUBLE FOR BREAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL LAWS?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Mother&#8217;s Day this past weekend, some may be comforted to know that they probably can&#8217;t be held liable — at least not in a Court of law — for insulting their mother-in-law no matter how offensive their insults. As was reported in the news, in March of 2009, comedian Sunda Croonquist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=786</link>
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		<title>EXTORTING CELEBRITIES 101: A HOW TO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this is not actually an instructional guide on extorting celebrities. I just found the title catchy. But as I was reading the recent story of &#8220;David Boreanaz and the Case of the Mysterious Mistress,&#8221; it struck me that some are either still ignorant of the nature and dangers of extortion claims, even in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=792</link>
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		<title>GIZMODO FACES LIKELY CRIMINAL AND CIVIL CHARGES OVER IPHONE EPISODE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now everyone knows what occurred last month regarding Gizmodo&#8217;s decision to purchase an Apple prototype iPhone: Gizmodo posted several offers to access unreleased Apple products so it could post the information on its tech gossip website. Shortly thereafter an Apple employee carelessly left a next generation iPhone prototype at a bar where he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kwikablog.com/?p=779</link>
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