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Supreme Court Rules “That Dog Don’t Hunt”: Bad Spaniels Toy’s Use of JACK DANIELS Marks is a Poor Parody and Dilution Act Applies

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The District Court rejected VIP’s contentions and enjoined VIP from manufacturing and selling its Bad Spaniels dog toy holding that when “another’s trademark is used for source identification,” the Rogers test does not apply and the test is whether the use is likely to cause confusion. 58 (2007)). [14] 1125(c)(3)(A). at 2, 5).

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Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We are aware, however, that Brazilian courts have recognized human rights-based exceptions to copyright that can operate like an open, general exception like fair use, See. 964.404 ES (2007/0144450-5). More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.

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Web Scraping and Intellectual Property Rights

IIPRD

These goods and services present online that form the bread and butter for business are a protected product/content that is categorized as intellectual property and is protected under the Intellectual Property laws through copyright, trademark , design , etc. Modak & Anr on 12 December 2007. [4]

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled, however, that making and displaying thumbnail images to facilitate an image search engine was a fair use. See James Gibson, Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law , 116 Yale L.J. Amazon.com, Inc. , 3d 1146 (9th Cir. 3d at 1160. 3d at 1168.) 882 (2006).