LIFE WITH DICK AND DICK: RACE AND MALE PORNOGRAPHIC SELF-REPRESENTATION ON REDDIT

This paper broadly focuses on the sharing of male pornographic self-representation (PSR) on the Reddit forum, Massive Cock. Our previous study examined how gay-straight relations are recoded on the forum. Drawing on new data currently being collected, we focus on the operation and intersection of racialized masculinities as afforded by hybrid networked technologies, platforms, and screens. Based on preliminary data collection and analysis, we argue that Massive is a space of unmarked whiteness, with a paucity of racialized dick pics. We discuss the ways in which the less than 10 percent of posters of colour mark out their racialized identities, including through the mobilization of the problematic trope of the BBC (“big black cock”), with its roots in interracial pornography. We also examine the ways in which a much smaller number of racialized men, who are not black, mark out their racial/ethnic identity. Finally we look at the few white men who draw attention to their race through appropriation of the BBC discourse as BWC ("big white cock"). Taken together it is clear that Massive is a “fraternity of the [white] cock” (Waugh, 2004) but it is one that is disrupted and unsettled by the presence of racialized PSR.

Trademark protection of single-colour trademarks: a study of the Chinese Louboutin case

In December 2018, Beijing Higher Court released the final decision associated with Christian Louboutin's trademark registration of the famous Red Sole Mark, holding that the mark should be categorized as a single-colour mark applied to a specific portion of the good and it could be registered as a trademark in China. This decision is the first Chinese judicial opinion associated with trademark registrability of a single-colour mark applied to a specific portion of the good, and therefore it plays a significant role in future trademark protection of single-colour trademarks.

Colour and Sound Marks: A Brief Overview of Civil Protection in Light of Jordanian Legislation

There has been much debate regarding colour and sound marks, as to whether they should be registered as trademarks and therefore protected by law. Colours and sound, like words, letters, numbers and figures, can form an important part of goods, products, or services. This article critically examines the approach of Jordanian Law on the topic of civil protection for colour marks, as an example of visible signs, and sound marks, as an example of non-visible signs. It examines the definitions of colour and sound marks and of types of colour mark, questioning whether colours and single-colour marks are protected in Jordan under the Trademarks Law, Unfair Competition and Trade Secret Law, and Civil Law, and whether sound marks are protected in Jordan. What conditions are necessary for registering colour and sound marks? Finally, the article examines the protection of sounds under the Jordanian Copyright Protection Law, as the fate of sound marks is still fraught with uncertainty.