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It’s a Wonderful Copyright

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From then on, NBC has held the exclusive right to broadcast the film, which is why it only airs on NBC on Christmas Eve. For anyone interested in more details, the Library of Congress created a helpful blog post a few years ago discussing the topic. Thank you for reading.

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Sounds, Colors, Scents, and Other Nontraditional Trademarks

Erik K Pelton

And it’s one of my favorite topics to talk about because there’s so many exciting and interesting examples of different non-traditional trademarks. The NBC chimes are registered. The following is an edited transcript of my video Sounds, Colors, Scents, and Other Nontraditional Trademarks. Shapes can be registered.

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Full Of Sound And Query, Signifying Something: Recent Noise Over Acoustic Trademarks

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3618321), and “[t]he NBC chimes sequence [, which] actually became the first ‘purely audible’ service mark to register with the USPTO in 1950.” NBC did not renew this mark, and the mark expired in 1992. In the US, other sound marks include Law & Order ’s ca-chung chung (as Reg. As noted (at 498, fn.