Sat.Feb 24, 2024

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En Banc: Son of THE SLANTS Appeal Brief to the Federal Circuit

Likelihood of Confusion

We’ve got your First Amendment right here: Props to my partner John Connell and associates Darth Newman and, of course, the redoubtable Joel MacMull — who has now joined me at Archer & Greiner, P.C. and whose contribution to crafting the constitutional argument in the first round of CAFC briefing played a huge part in getting us […] The post En Banc: Son of THE SLANTS Appeal Brief to the Federal Circuit appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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‘Movie-Web’ Domain Shut Down By Hollywood Complaint

TorrentFreak

In recent months, Movie-Web has quickly gained popularity among a particular group of movie aficionados. The open source software, which is still available on GitHub, allows anyone to set up a movie search engine capable of streaming content from third-party sources. These external sources tend to have large libraries of pirated entertainment. Like Google Movie-Web’s developers are not oblivious to the legal ramifications but since they don’t host any files, they hoped to avoid legal

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TMSR Session 3: Private Actors…and their Machines

43(B)log

Introduction: Jeanne Fromer Private actors pursue their own interests. Focused on Amazon: free riding on gov’t mechanisms, particularly TM law, to communicate to gov’t not to regulate it—product liability, intermediary liability. It’s also cheaper, and Amazon is notoriously cheap. Affecting TM law (as set forth in new paper with Mark McKenna, which is excellent).