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Are Memes Dangerous?

LexBlog IP

But wait, shouldn’t the Fair Use Doctrine imputed under the First Amendment apply to an obviously parodied creative work? Table of Contents: Fair Use Under the Copyright Act How much risk are we talking here? Yes and no. All meme-like images in this article are properly licensed. What about meme generators?

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TIL: “Texas Tamale” Is an Enforceable Trademark–Texas Tamale v. CPUSA2

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

” But the trademark registration was over 5 years old, so it had become “incontestable.” Still, there should be many circumstances where descriptive fair use permits the defendant to use the term “Texas tamale” in the ad copy. ” The right answer should be “no one.”

Trademark 101
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Inside Donald Trump’s Super-Secret Copyright Defense

Copyright Lately

For someone accused of treating classified documents with about the same care as old CVS receipts , Donald Trump is going to great lengths to keep his deposition testimony in a long-running copyright infringement case confidential, redacted, and permanently under seal. I don’t know. What was the purpose of this Tweet or Retweet?

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. The registrant counternoticed each time. per sticker set.

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Spring Cleaning: Decluttering From Recent Intellectual Property Detritus & Dusting Off Old Posts

LexBlog IP

It has been noted as to the US Supreme Court’s requirement that it render before its summer break decisions in all cases argued in the current term and dispose of as many cert. ” Then, as I noted , the US Supreme Court decided a few days later, “in Google v. at 7-9) were transformative.,” ’ (Op.