Ruling: Amazon Can’t Own ‘.Amazon’ (The Wall Street Journal)
ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee recommended against Amazon taking control of the ‘.Amazon’ domain, perhaps in part because of objections from Latin American countries served by the Amazon River.
Why Startups Are Sporting Increasingly Quirky Names (The Wall Street Journal)
With about 252 million domain names currently registered across the Internet, short, recognizable dot-com Web addresses have long been taken, prompting startup companies to come up with misspelled, made-up, and mashed-up names.
Google, Amazon.com Win Appeal to Toss Internet Patents (Bloomberg)
Google and Amazon won a U.S. appeals court ruling in a case of a former university researcher who claimed his patents covered some of the Internet’s most basic interactive functions.
Charts: How Spotify is Killing Music Piracy (paidContent)
Online music service Spotify published a report that shows that piracy in the Netherlands has gone down just as Spotify has become more popular in the country.
Is Flipboard a Partner or a Competitor For Publishers and Content Creators? Yes (paidContent)
With the launch of a web version, Flipboard highlights how far it has evolved from its early days as a standalone app, and how it is both a partner and a potential competitor for content companies.
Keith Kupferschmid is General Counsel and SVP, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement at SIIA.