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Category: Fair Use

Posted on December 25, 2022 Fair Use Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

Companies versus their fans

Walter Olson: The famous maker of candies and candy-dispensers is suing the owners of the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia in Northern California, claiming that... Read more

Posted on December 22, 2022 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use Free Expression Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

Jews for Jesus* v. free speech: update

Maybe if Steve Brodsky or the Whistleblower published pornography or scandalous charactures of Dick Cheney or were uploading music files the self-appointed guardians of free speech would have something to say about what's going on here. Read more

Posted on November 26, 2022 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use

More on toy models as trademark infringements

Ara Rubyan sends along this link to Boing Boing: Josh sez, “The folks at BMC (Black Mustang Club) automotive forum wanted to put together a... Read more

Posted on November 18, 2022 Fair Use

Best of 2008: The Long and Rocky Road

This was first posted on May 7, 2008. Irvin Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died yesterday. Here’s how much time has... Read more

Posted on November 1, 2022 Fair Use

MTA’s way or the highway

I’ve been watching these guys at the MTA and their IP enforcement program for a while now.  Once was for a client, who, regrettably, didn’t... Read more

Posted on October 24, 2022 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 August 4, 2022 Fair Use

What’s A Library, and What Is Google Going to do to It?

Discussed with intelligence and insight at the Derivate Work blog. Originally posted 2005-08-19 16:32:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on July 30, 2022 Fair Use

Grateful Defendant

The New York Law Journal reports online (registration required) that the Southern District of New York has, thankfully, put a rare brake on the copyright... Read more

Posted on July 12, 2022 Fair Use Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

Sealed with a fist

I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which really should both... Read more

Posted on June 19, 2022August 30, 2022 Fair Use

Nominative fair use: The Second Circuit names names

Nominative fair use — the “unauthorized” use of a trademark as a trademark specifically to invoke the trademark, as opposed to its “non-trademark” use to... Read more

Posted on June 8, 2022June 26, 2022 Fair Use

Unofficial, and in court

Mike Mintz reports about a lawsuit brought in California by Brian Kopp, the publisher of an unofficial guidebook for a computer game called World of... Read more

Posted on May 27, 2022 Fair Use

Best of 2009: The DMCA and the search engine

Posted on August 6, 2009. Traverse Legal: Mary Roach has a great post at CircleID on an area that we have talked about extensively, namely, copyright... Read more

Posted on April 17, 2022 Fair Use Trademarks and trademark law

Unfair use

More pain, very little gain — besides for lawyers’ college funds — in the roiling world of trademark fair use. Originally posted 2012-09-10 06:00:30. Republished... Read more

Posted on March 29, 2022 Copyright Law Fair Use Free Expression

Baseball been very, very good to lawyers

Do you remember the lawsuit by Major League Baseball over the use of — well, not statistics, exactly, but the rights of publicity in baseball... 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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