DCAEV Inc., which runs the escort site date-check.com, argues that Intelius is violating its trademark with “DateCheck,” a mobile app that does a background search on, well, your date.
“With DateCheck you know longer have to rely on your intuition or what the guy tells you,” a YouTube ad for the mobile app DateCheck says. “Look up before you hook up.”
DCAEV also claims Intelius is cybersquatting and using deceptive trade practices.
The Las Vegas Sun offers a PDF of the court filing here.
Here’s the good news: Some news organizations are not letting up on legal cases to get records and information.
Here’s the bad news: Some are.
Tim Arango of the New York Times wrote an excellent piece about how Hearst and the Associated Press are continuing to fight for legal records, even if it costs them.
Unfortunately, he also writes that smaller news organizations — regional and local — have had to cut legal costs along with other costs. And the head of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press told him that she’s hearing about hard times for media lawyers.
I hope the Times continues to follow up on this issue. At a time when cost-cutting is the norm in the news industry, we must monitor how this cost-cutting is impacting journalism’s watchdog role.
I have a wonderful journalism student. She’s done everything she’s supposed to do.
Internships? Check. She’s had great internships at local newspapers and a regional magazine.
School work? Check. She goes above and beyond.
Hard worker? Absolutely. She’s a go-getter, no doubt about it.
The only thing she has not done is go to a journalism school with a top-tier national reputation.
The school where I teach is not Columbia or Missouri or Syracuse. It’s a good, small, public college in Upstate New York. And now that this stellar student is looking for jobs — or even internships — at larger publications, she’s finding it difficult to compete against the students with the J-School Name.
Last night this student came to me to ask what she can do. I told her to keep trying, that sometimes it’s about perseverance, luck and timing. I also told her that ultimately, she might want to consider graduate school at a top journalism school. I have no doubt she’d get in and thrive.
Dear Reader, what should I tell this student? Do you have any advice?
If you are buying a term paper off the Internet, you are probably not that concerned about whether someone’s copyright has been infringed upon.
But some of the people who wrote those papers are concerned about their copyrights, and their lawsuit has led an Illinois judge to order to one of these term paper companies to prove it has permission for the papers it sells.
According to USA Today, this might “be the first time a court has penalized a seller based on how it acquires papers.”
