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By Andis Kaulins

We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (c) The Law Blogroll - C:

Canadian Trademark Blog. e.g. ICANN Proposal to end Domain Tasting.

cearta.ie required reading: The Internet and the Project of Communications Law.

Charon QC In News round up? and a thought for Valentine?s day? we liked this statement "One does tend to meet unusual people outside pubs - smokers, over refreshed people? and sometimes the odd King".

Gung-Ho ?
China Law Blog had to move "Thanks to China's Great Firewall blocking us in China". Their most recent posting is How To Learn Chinese Law. Do Try This At Home. (what you hear is hysterical laughter).

China Business Law Blog ??????. We love the posting at Microsoft Falls One Step Behind in Protecting ?Windows?, as the CTMO (China Trademark Office) has opened the doors to the Windows for we spectacle carriers. We quote: "China Trademark Office (CTMO) dealt another blow to American software giant Microsoft in January 2008. Reportedly (here and here), it rejected Microsoft?s opposition of the registration of a trademark ?Windows?by a Ningbo eye glass company. The company successfully registered ???? (?Shi Chuang?, which means windows of vision) in 2001, and it later tried to register ?Windows? in 2003 for glasses (Class Nine)." Be assured, that in areas where Microsoft patents, copyrights and trademarks prevail, we are not so foolish as to apply "Windows" as a word to those things in our house that let the light in during the day to let us enjoy our viewed "Vista" - we call them "Gates". Branding.

The Chinese Law Prof Blog of Donald C. Clarke informs us about a Chinese protective car-part tariff that was too much for the WTO: "Beijing has a minimum local content requirement of 60 percent for home produced cars and if this is exceeded, it then levies the same tariff on the vehicle as it would if it was imported completely built." But is this any diferent than cultural protection laws? We quote the New Rules Project (a bit outdated): "Cultural protection laws are one way to keep national creations from disappearing. Thus many U.S. trading partners with open borders for everything from shoes to computers maintain strict quotas and tariffs on foreign audiovisual content. All European Union countries require at least 50 percent of television programming to be of European origin. Similar laws exist in Malaysia, Hungary and Poland. In Israel, Canada, France, Malaysia and elsewhere a certain percentage of radiocontent must be of local origin or in the national language. And countless countries impose quotas or levies on foreign films, including China, Korea, Venezuela, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Egypt and Taiwan".

Codigo-civil.net at La sharia y la ley inglesa: excepción de orden público? has a translation of Top judges in key ruling on sharia marriage, an article in the Observer by Mark Townsend.

cogito ergo teneo; an intellectual property blawg, is a "blawg dedicated to reporting on recent U.S. copyright, trademark, and trade secret law, as well as any other interesting intellectual property news." A case covered here in copyright law is Loretta Lynn v. Sure-Fire Music Company, 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 06-5358 (June 6, 2007) to which cogito writes: "Pertinent issue of Copyright Law: 1) Does federal copyright law automatically preempt any state claims over penned lyrics? Conclusion: No."

Comparative Law Blog has a recent posting on Vargas on Mexico's Legal System (Includes: 'Best Mexican Law Websites').

ConflictOfLaws.net (in association with the Journal of Private International Law, sponsored by Clifford Chance LLP) has e.g. a recent posting on Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2007: Twenty-First Annual Survey.

Conglomerate hits the nail on the head in identifying a blockbuster of a new financial headache, sovereign wealth funds, i.e. as the SEC has written, "the participation of government-owned commercial investment funds in the U. S. capital markets".

contentandcarrier covers European electronic communications and media law, like ?Keep law and form and due proportion?* - ECJ on IP-addresses for IP-rights.

CopyCense. See European Union Rejects ISP Filtering.

Copyfight, how about Like YouTube for Business Documents which is about Docstoc.com.

Corporate Governance Blog at Harvard Law School, a recent posting is On Being a Corporate Lawyer.

Counterfeit Chic, with Camelot, the sequel, a posting about Michele Obama at the Larry King Show (see the CNN Video).

CrimLaw. How about Who Wants an Unrepresented Defendant? by Ken Lemmers.

Customs Law. See News on Border Searches of Computers.

Full post as published by LawPundit on February 14, 2008 (boomark / email).