Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Characters are often protected by copyright, even if their fashion is not, but they are also routinely protected by trademark. The name Beetlejuice, for example, has multiple registered trademarks related to it including registration number 4863369, which covers the use in “Clothing for men, women and children…”.

Trademark 243

Trademark Copyright Cease and Desist Copying 243

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a result of this, the consumer start recognising the product due to its strong reputation and constant quality which helps the producer itself, this helps to determine the origin of goods or services provided by a producer or the service provider and functions as an advertising tool. Co Pvt Ltd.

Trademark 52

Trademark Registration Registering Trademarks Advertising 52

Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Blogging and Fair Use. The doctrine of fair use bears substantial importance for blogs since the question of plagiarism may sprout up at regular intervals. It is noteworthy to analyze a few examples that might or might not fall into fair use of copyrighted content: A parody can be made of a particular piece of work.

Intellectual Property 98

Intellectual Property Blogging Fair Use Registration 98

43(B)log

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I’m going to talk briefly about last term’s Jack Daniels case—a trademark infringement and dilution case—as well as Elster, argued last week, in which the Justices appeared inclined to reject a First Amendment challenge to the refusal to register the claimed mark “TRUMP TOO SMALL” for t-shirts.

False Advertising 75

False Advertising Advertising Advertising Trademark 75

43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

My former student Grace McLaughlin has written an excellent note about the fact that these putative trademarks don’t serve human trademark functions—it’s very hard to remember them or distinguish one random string from another random string in terms of knowing what you’ve seen before—and has proposed some possible responses from the PTO.

IP 94

IP Trademark Advertising Advertising 94

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Indeed, in recent years the Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized the multiple benefits of registration to a trademark claimant, including in the recent cases of Matal v. I’ve left out the parts specific to registered trademarks and the reference to treaties. None of those were branding uses. Then, in Lexmark v.

Trademark 59

Trademark Fair Use Registration False Advertising 59

43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

On Patrol: Live used the same two hosts and also features Curtis Wilson, who previously featured as a contributor on Live PD. REELZ allegedly told advertisers that the “working title” of the show was “PD Live,” and went so far as to announce that “REELZ ADDS #1 TV SHOW TO OUR PROGRAMS LINEUP” with “ALL NEW LIVE EPISODES.”

Social Media 59

Social Media Copying Fair Use Advertising 59

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

As I noted on Twitter , nothing in the opinion suggests that the display of parodies, jokes, or other messages on the surface of toys, T-shirts, or other types of expressive merchandise would, by itself, constitute a trademark use of another’s mark or trade dress. Redbubble, Inc. , Youngs Drug Products.

Trademark 100

Trademark Blogging Trademark Law Fair Use 100

Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

She would create a dataset of sound files consisting of Drake acapella vocals (stripped from the music tracks using a vocal separator) and run the data through software used to train the voice model. Artists also may own registered trademarks in their names for use as source identifiers.

Music 85

Music Copyright Copying Copyright Law 85

43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. What about fragmented literal similarity based on use of clips from the 2001 Documentary (no clips from the 2003 Documentary were allegedly used)?

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Trademark Copyright Editing 52

Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

The court agreed that the defense of fair use might be available in a given case to an individual user; however, the “activities of Wynk can never be termed as ‘private’ or ‘personal use’ or research,” and that it is selling/commercially renting the sound recordings.

Music 98

Music Licensing Television Copyright Infringement 98

IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2022

Trademark infringement may arise where an unauthorized party mints an NFT linked to the underlying asset, without the asset owner’s permission, and advertises, offers for sale, and/or sells the NFT using the asset owner’s registered trademarks. ” Legal Implications of NFTs in India.

Non-Fungible Tokens 40

Non-Fungible Tokens Intellectual Property Ownership Branding 40