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Tesla — Master of Lightning

Too bad Nikola Tesla didn’t use a good intellectual property law firm, says a US law firm in their advertisement. Do you know who Tesla is? Think radio. Think electricity. Think transmitting electricity over long distances. Think - Not on friendly terms with Edison. Tesla is a Serbian inventor,...

Economy Class Travel

Let me tell you™, I have been travelling economy class all my life, since my first flight as a one month old baby on the trip from Belgrade, Serbia to Pula, Croatia. I imagine myself on my number one flight looking at a first class baby happily kicking across her...

Creative Commons

From now on krug2ke is not going to reserve all rights to it’s articles. Instead, we are moving to a more flexible copyright license created by Creative Commons. This copyright license reserves some rights to our articles, not all. What “some rights reserved” in our copyright license means is that...

Bourdin vs. Madonna

Madonna, known for her unprecedented fight against copyright infringement, (remember “what the fuck do you think you are doing?” ), is now being sued for the same. Samuel Bourdin, son of the famous French fashion photographer, sued Madonna for copying his late father’s images in a set of videos for...

Jury duty

I came convinced that I will not be selected. I heard they usually skip lawyers. It was just two days after my return from Europe. Powered with the latest issues of “Hello”, “OK”, “Politika”, Serbian Intellectual Property Gazette and lots of positive energy, I was ready. Ready not to get...

Origins of Copyright

It happened in Ireland, around 500 AD. An Irish monk St. Columba borrowed a then famous book from a monastery and copied it without permission....

21st Century Female Attorney Defined

21st Century Female Attorney = she does not work at a big firm. she is a woman first, and then an attorney. she has a balanced life. she occasionally wears red nail polish. she has a self-imposed policy of minimum six weeks vacation a year....