Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Finally, it points out Viacom is the owner of three valid trademark registrations for the KRUSTY KRAB mark and 400 copyright registrations covering “creative aspects of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise,” including episodes from the animated television series, movies, drawings, and stylebooks featuring artwork from the franchise.

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43(B)log

MAY 22, 2023

May 19, 2023) Whereas the timeshare false advertising cases might be making law largely applicable to other timeshare cases, what’s going on in the strip club advertising cases might have somewhat broader implications. Several had appeared in magazines, advertising campaigns, television episodes, and films. 21-2149-cv, F.4th

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

A&E Television Networks, LLC v. On Patrol: Live used the same two hosts and also features Curtis Wilson, who previously featured as a contributor on Live PD. Media critics allegedly readily observed that the new show was “a clone of A&E’s Live PD,” and that “On Patrol: Live is Live PD.” 7411 (KPF) (S.D.N.Y. I’m confused.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The court also credits the self-serving claim by the successor licensee that it considered fair use by comparing the works and evaluating if the works were being sold commercially or for other purposes. Signal 23 Television v. Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation, 2021 WL 4482608 (S.D.N.Y. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Memes utilize pop culture content, such as movies, television shows, and other various forms of media, often in a parodic way. Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] By: Taylor Bussey.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

On November 16, 2021, film and television studio Miramax, LLC (“Miramax”) sued Tarantino and his company Visiona Romantica, Inc. 26] The defendants denied many of the allegations in the complaint, and asserted several affirmative defenses, including that the NFTs fell under the fair use exception to the Copyright Act. [27]

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

vs Acko General Insurance on 10 November, 2023 (Delhi High Court) The dispute pertains to the use of the plaintiff’s artistic work “Humanity” by the defendant in one of its advertisement hoardings. The defendant argued that since the plaintiff’s work was exhibited in public its reproduction will fall under the ambit of fair use.

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