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Who Wins in the Battle of Vogue, the magazine, (David) versus Vogue, the pub (Goliath)?

IPilogue

Typically, the name “Vogue” evokes the highly popular fashion and lifestyle magazine or the song “Vogue” by Madonna. However, for Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue the magazine, having a pub called “Vogue” was an issue. Graham helpfully pointed out that the pub predates the magazine and the village is even older than the pub.

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Dry Cleaning Magazine In NJ Must Pay $8.2M For Defamation

IP Law 360

million verdict by a New Jersey federal jury on Friday on claims that it ran a yearslong defamation campaign in its magazines against a dry-cleaning supply business and its competing trade publication. A dry-cleaning industry publication was hit with an $8.2

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Are Ads in Old Magazines Protected by Copyright?

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magazine between 1918 and 1962. The magazine itself was copyrighted, but the ads do not contain any copyright markings, so my understanding is that the ads would have entered into the public domain. It's true that the 1976 Copyright Act expressly requires that advertisements in magazines have separate copyright notices.

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Showtime Beats Magazine's TM Suit Over UFO Docuseries

IP Law 360

A Wyoming federal judge has thrown out UFO Magazine's trademark suit against television network Showtime over a four-part docuseries centered on extraterrestrial phenomena, ruling Thursday that the network's use of the title "UFO" is protected artistic expression.

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The Bizarre Case of the Serial Lit Mag Plagiarist

Plagiarism Today

Recently, pseudonymous author John Kucera has become the bane of literary magazine editors for his flagrant and ongoing plagiarism. The post The Bizarre Case of the Serial Lit Mag Plagiarist appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TTAB Says Wired Magazine Is 'Not Famous' In Mixed Ruling

IP Law 360

The publisher of the tech magazine Wired can block a woman's trademark application on the name for clothing, but not fitness boot camps, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has ruled, finding that the publication is not famous enough to risk dilution.

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Mad Magazine Operator Drops TM Claim Against Widow

IP Law 360

A federal judge in Miami agreed on Monday to let a publisher voluntarily dismiss its counterclaim against the self-represented widow of a Mad magazine cartoonist, after the Eleventh Circuit refused to give an opinion on her case because the judge hadn't yet closed out the counterclaim.