IP and Legal Filings
OCTOBER 28, 2022
While NFT platforms are not yet specifically regulated, they are subject to the provisions on Electronic System Providers (“ESPs”) contained in several regulations, as follows: • Law No. 11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.•
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 26, 2021
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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Erik K Pelton
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Besides Mariah, there were many other celebrity trademark stories this year, as more an more celebrities launch more and more brands. One example was the November release of the Her Loss album by artists Drake and 21 Savage which included a fake Vogue magazine cover as part of the album artwork, as well as a fake version of Vogue magazine.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 26, 2024
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.
IP and Legal Filings
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
NFTs may be represented in the form of memes, artworks, or videos. In 2016, the USPTO rejected Bitcoin’s trademark application. However, the UK and Spain Patents and Trademark office granted trademark protection to the ‘Bitcoin’ mark and its logo (Registration number: M4046141).
Patently-O
JUNE 8, 2023
The holding is that the First Amendment does not require any special scrutiny in cases where the accused activity is “the use of trademarks as trademarks.” ” Rather in this use-as-a-mark situation, standard principles of trademark law apply.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
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.
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