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Tag: Overreaching

Posted on May 28, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Fair Use Trademarks and trademark law

Zombie on zombie action

The Escapist (via Punning Pundit): In a battle that refuses to die, publisher Capcom filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against the Dawn of the Dead film... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

Best of 2008: “The Color Purple” (April)

This was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Copyright Law

Holding Caulfield

I could have linked to a million stories on this, but Publishers Weekly seems appropriate*: Finding that author J.D. Salinger is “likely to succeed on the... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Diversion Trademarks and trademark law

The second time as farce

On the occasion of the S&L Vitamins v. Australian Gold trial, I reposted what I wrote here six months earlier about the first of these... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Buildings and IP

No copyright in the fact of your existence

Whether someone else’s movie includes your building in Times Square (a properly defunct trademark claim) or, as Marty Schwimmer reports, your pinball machine in the... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 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

Bulls Eye
Posted on May 28, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

Web 2.0, but nothing’s changed

Remember the silliness over the attempt by a certain attorney to secure trademark rights for CYBERLAWYER?  The notable part about how that went down was... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

The color purple

Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to the use of the color purple in association... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

Tail wagging dog?

Or maybe not. Evan Brown reports about a lawsuit by a high-end computer manufacturer, Alienware, over one of those “free laptop” promotions that it claims... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Copyright Law

RIAA lawsuit decision matrix

BBspot finds the Rosetta Stone of the RIAA’s litigation strategy. This “explains” a lot.  Hat tip to Boing Boing. Originally posted 2012-07-23 14:01:33. Republished by... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 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 May 28, 2021 Uncategorized

Unilateral copyright law

Eugene Volokh joins the pile–on regarding a website that claims to exempt its contents from the liberating effects of the fair use doctrine.  The North... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

European trademark law swinging from vines

Unlike in the good old U.S. of A., Tarzan’s yell doesn’t cut it in Europe — at least not as a trademark: Tarzan’s distinctive yell... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

Major League Baseball – SDNY Balks?

A potentially troubling (from the teams’ point of view) thought from the Southern District of New York in a case brought by Major League 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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