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Protecting Trademarks on YouTube: Balancing Rights and Remedies in the Digital Age

Intepat

While YouTube seeks to protect the IP rights of the trademark holder, they only provide a minimal investigation of the complaint. However, in addition to these limited measures, the trademark laws in India provide the following comprehensive remedies for trademark infringement.

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Second Circuit signals some minimal flexibility on Polaroid analysis in another strip club false endorsement case

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Appellants, current and former professional models, appealed their summary judgment loss on a variety of claims arising from the use of their images in social media posts promoting a “gentlemen’s club” operated by EIE. Several had appeared in magazines, advertising campaigns, television episodes, and films. 59 Murray Enters.,

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Resolving Conflicts Between Trademark and Free Speech Rights After Jack Daniel’s v. VIP Products (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Ramsey is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. She writes and teaches in the trademark law area, and recently wrote a paper with Professor Christine Haight Farley that focuses on speech-protective doctrines in trademark infringement law.] By Guest Blogger Lisa P. Ramsey [Lisa P.

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11th Circuit affirms Viacom's Rogers-based win for MTV Floribama Shore

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Chesney also performed on the Lounge’s beachfront stage at a 2014 concert broadcast as “Kenny Chesney: Live at the Flora-Bama” on Country Music Television (CMT), a Viacom channel. An online article used photos of the Lounge in its coverage of the series, and MGFB also submitted social media posts.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

Unlike trademark law, copyright is not a “use it or lose it” proposition. As always, let me know what you think, either in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. As the rightsholder, Netflix has the ability to dictate the terms on which fans can utilize its works for commercial purposes.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 24- April 29)

SpicyIP

The court agreed with the petitioner’s arguments and also found that the explanation of reverse deduction by the defendant, for the coinage of the mark, if accepted, will trivialize the trademark law. Delhi High Court restrains Calcutta Television Network from using CN Mark, holding it to be deceptively similar to CNN’s logo.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

Relying extensively on the rationale of the Single Judge’s order, the Division Bench held that Section 31D specifically deals only with Radio and Television Broadcasting. Social Media platform Humans of Bombay filed a case against a similar platform- People of India alleging copyright infringement and replication of their business model.

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