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Category: Copyright Termination

Posted on February 28, 2022 Copyright Termination

Best of 2009: I can’t stands no more!

Published on January 6, 2009. The Popeye copyrights are now in the public domain in Europe. That’s copyright, not trademark.  As Mark Owen, an IP... Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on June 2, 2021 Copyright Termination

Detective work: Hunting down the copyright victory (of a “cop”).

If you want to read an article about an important development in copyright news, but you don’t want to be distracted by a lot of... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 Copyright Termination

I can’t stands no more!

The Popeye copyrights are now in the public domain in Europe. That’s copyright, not trademark.  As Mark Owen, an IP lawyer at the UK firm... Read more

Posted on October 13, 2019 Copyright Termination

Lawyers of steel

This story is all over the everywhere; I’ll let Eriq Gardner sum it up, as he does so very nicely: Warner Bros. has won a... Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on November 16, 2015October 18, 2016 Copyright Termination

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: BOSTON* just got real (Boston 3)

*Preliminary note: I know that the band BOSTON is not a party to Ahern v. Scholz, but all the same I like thinking of this... Read more

Posted on June 16, 2014June 16, 2014 Copyright Termination

The Seventh Circuit solution

Matthew David Brozik wrote here about the December 2013 Holmes copyright expiration decision out of the U.S. District of Illinois shortly after it came out.... Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on March 21, 2013October 18, 2016 Copyright Termination

But It’s Not a Good Feeling.

I’m sorry. “More Than a Feeling” is the only Boston song I’ve ever heard—or even heard of. For a while, in fact, I was fairly... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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