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Posted on June 17, 2021June 28, 2021 Copyright Law Internet Law

DMCA takedown backlash

The EFF is suing Viacom over their DMCA takedown notice for a Stephen Colbert parody clip on YouTube which EFF says is non-infringing. Viacom sent... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

Common Law Copyright Makes it On Broadway

The online New York Law Journal (registration with a credit card for at least a free trial required) reports as follows: ALBANY: In an unprecedented... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

Bag It

Remember Vuitton v. Dooney? It’s over. Reports the Shiny Style blog: A judge ruled in favor of Dooney & Bourke in the trademark dispute involving... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

The AP, copyright, and the bloggers

You can’t have missed the story, in all its agony. One weensy problem with the blogosphere: It’s so quick, so supple, so instantaneous, so plastic…... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

Organization for Transformative Works

This is very interesting: The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

Copyright in cease and desist letters? Not quite.

A law firm’s press release says: The US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects a lawyer demand letter... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

No joke

Noel Sheppard (via Insty) smells a rat: [T]he photo sharing website Flickr removed the Obama Joker picture that was later transformed into posters showing up in... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

ReDigi Redux: A Decision in Two Dialogues

There is a case so plainly inappropriate for a fair use defense, and this is that case. Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

Someone dropped in an extra zero, right? RIGHT?

It’s a month-old story, and how it got past us here notwithstanding, it’s not getting past us now.  Per the ABA Journal, remember the Bratz... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Fair Use

“We cannot allow our brand to be abused”

Originally posted on November 13, 2008: “We cannot allow our brand to be abused.”  What “brand” is that? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

A quick scan of the law regarding copyright and the public domain images

The story’s all over the Net, but here’s as good a take on it as any, from Mike Masnick at Techdirt: Derrick Coetzee, a software... Read more

Posted on June 11, 2021 Copyright Law

Copyright law is hard

But it’s hard to have sympathy for the MPAA about its being accused of infringement, since its insane shotgun appraoch to enforcement is so just... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Copyright Law

Ben Stein trips over IP

Walter Olson: With all his lawyer chums from Milberg-witness days, you’d think Ben Stein could have saved the makers of his creationist movie from stumbling... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law

Oh, bother!

The Supreme Court declined yesterday to get involved in the Winnie the Pooh litigation, despite the opportunity it presented for another swat at the Ninth... 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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