The New York Stock Exchange is lame.

From TPM:

The New York Stock Exchange now claims that you have to get their permission (express or implicit) before you use images connected to the New York Stock Exchange.  So if you find a wire photo of the trading floor and use it to illustrate a story on Wall Street, you’re violating the NYSE’s trademark because they’ve trademarked the trading floor itself. 

TPM is represented on Media and IP matters by extremely capable specialist outside counsel.  And we’ve been advised that the NYSE’s claims are baseless and ridiculous on their face.  But this is yet another example of how many large corporations have given way to IP-mania, trying to bully smaller companies into submission with inane and legally specious claims of intellectual property rights.