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Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute

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We are pleased to bring our readers a guest post by Abhijay Srekanth and Vivek Basanagoudar on interaction of trademarks with free speech. Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute. Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute.

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Metaverse: Fashion Trademark Battles to Watch

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The new gems being mined are the non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are already at the center of several trademark battles. Therefore, it is essential for anyone interested in the business of trademarks to pay close attention to the following first cases on the matter. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Nike, Inc.

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Role Of NFTs In The Fashion Industry: An Overview

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Recently, a new trend of merging of blockchain technology with creative intellectual property via non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) had taken place. The idea has spread across all market sectors, and now luxury fashion retailers have joined the tokenization bandwagon. Introduction. What are NFTs?

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 23 – 29)

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and the socio-legal opportunism of the defendants’ arguments for condonable trademark infringement, set in the backdrop of the ongoing global pandemic. s copyright and registered trademark by thrusting its deceptively similar goods and flooding the high-in-demand but low-in-knowhow market, with its imitation products.