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Tag: Fair Use

Posted on December 28, 2022 Damages

Righthaven – Media Bloggers Association files amicus brief

I’ve written a little bit about the Righthaven lawsuits before.  Now, as reported in the Las Vegas Sun, on behalf of the Media Bloggers Association... Read more

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Posted on December 1, 2022 Blogging

Worth a thousand words

How much use is fair use — i.e., permissible use — when it comes to graphics and photographs you “find” on the Internet? Not too... 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 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 8, 2022 Copyright Law

See Dick Win. Pay, Defendant, Pay.

By now you must have heard about the dustup involving Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The irony for me is that not long after I... Read more

Posted on September 28, 2022 Domain Names

Beyond fair use

We’re a little obsessed here with the rights of “unauthorized” resellers to use the trademarks that describe the stuff they’re reselling.  So this UK domain... 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 1, 2022 Culture Clash

Good Deed for the Day: Helping Old Producers Cross Agents

In far-off Hong Kong, the Motion Picture Association has created a Boy Scout merit badge on copyright [original link lost, sorry — RDC]: Boy Scouts in Hong... 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 22, 2022 Buildings and IP

The Sound of silence

Michael Atkins is beside himself with intellectual-property-enforcement frustration about the use of an image of the Seattle Space Needle — a tall pointy building what... Read more

Posted on February 27, 2022March 4, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

More fair use follies: copyright infringement by court filing?

Evan Brown reports (links added): The parties in the matter of Shell v. Devries, a case from the U.S. District Court for the District of... Read more

Posted on November 29, 2021December 8, 2021 Copyright Law Internet Law

Best of 2009: “Adverference?”

This was originally published on January 22, 2009: Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured... Read more

Posted on November 22, 2021 Gripe and Review Sites

The unbearable dumbness of threatening

I’ve made a career here of tut-tutting the impolitic and brand-negating utterance of baseless cease and desist and other threatening letters based on IP infringement,... 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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