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Nintendo vs. Garry’s Mod: Dissecting the ‘Fake’ Domain Behind All the Chaos

TorrentFreak

Nintendo has a reputation for taking action against content featuring its characters and artwork so removing it now is the right thing to do. Similar notices dated 2016 , 2017 , and 2018 , fail to raise any obvious red flags and since the first and last were processed by GitHub, people can be confident they received considerable scrutiny.

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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

Plagiarism Today

Wtf is a juice demon pic.twitter.com/OxYMWEuoCq — Eli Matthewson (@EliMatthewson) October 1, 2016. To answer that and other questions about Halloween costumes, we have to step back and look at how copyright and trademark law apply to costumes. They are part fashion, part artwork, part branding and part character.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

Besides Mariah, there were many other celebrity trademark stories this year, as more an more celebrities launch more and more brands. On November 7 th , Conde Nast sued Drake and 21 Savage for $4 million for false advertising and infringing Vogue’s trademarks. Past issues of Top Trademark Trends: 2021: [link].

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Evaluating the Constitutionality of Viewpoint-Neutral Trademark Registration Laws That Do Not Restrict Speech—Vidal v. Elster (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Elster is a trademark dispute at the Supreme Court focused on the issue of whether Steve Elster has a free speech right to register a political message (“Trump Too Small”) as a trademark for shirts. VIP Products (2023) opinion and its other trademark cases. Section 2(c) is a viewpoint-neutral trademark law.