IP Nuggets

In Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., 1995, the US Supreme Court held that a colour alone could be registered as a trademark. [1]

Earlier this year, the Italian Parliament passed a law legalizing the sharing of degraded music for non-commercial purposes thereby legitimizing a large fraction of P2P sharing although the law does not seem to have come into force as yet. [2]

Links:
[1] 33 Law and Social Inquiry 173 (2008); web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/trademark/
[2] arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080201-whoopsitaly-inadvertently-legalizes-some-p2p-music.html