Monday, December 07, 2015

is "this video has been removed for violating the ToS" commercial advertising?

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Darnaa, LLC v. Google, Inc., 2015 WL 7753406, No. 15-cv-03221 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 2, 2015)   Darnaa posted a music video, Cowgirl, to YouTu...

Court mashes up Dastar and commercial speech doctrine to protect book from Lanham Act

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Keel v. Axelrod, No. 15-1507, 2015 WL 7733973 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 1, 2015)   Political operative David Axelrod wrote a book, Believer: My Fo...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Reading list: commercializing fanworks in the US and Japan

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Nele Noppe, Mechanisms of control in online fanwork sales: A comparison of Kindle Worlds and Dlsite.com , 12 Participations 218, 231 (2015)...

EU public consultation on intermediary liability

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EU Delegation to the US, Public Workshop on the Digital Single Market Strategy, Consultation on Online Platforms, Cloud & Data, Liabili...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Amicus brief in visual meme case

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While I'm at it, Chris Sprigman and I filed a brief on behalf of IP professors in a case against Fox News for republishing a 9/11 meme ...

Amicus brief in karaoke case: Dastar revisited

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Mark McKenna (and I) filed an amicus brief  on behalf of IP professors in another karaoke case, dealing with alleged infringement that consi...
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Metaphor likening plaintiff to peeping Tom is opinion, not fact

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Right Field Rooftops, LLC v. Chicago Cubs Baseball Club, LLC, --- F.Supp.3d ----, 2015 WL 5731736, No. 15 C 551 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 30, 2015) ...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Verisign fails to enjoin XYZ's statements about .xyz versus .com domains

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Verisign, Inc., v. XYZ.com, LLC, 2015 WL 7430016, No. 14-cv-01749 (E.D. Va. Nov. 20, 2015)   Verisign is the industry leader in domain ...

informal representations to competitor's customers can violate Lanham Act

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Display Works, LLC v. Pinnacle Exhibits, Inc., No. WMN-15-2284, 2015 WL 7454084 (D. Md. Nov. 24, 2015)   The parties entered into a non...

Pairing map with EPA mileage claims can misrepresent real-world mileage

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Kim v. General Motors, LLC, 99 F. Supp. 3d 1096 (C.D. Cal. 2015)   Kim sued GM for misleadingly advertising EPA estimated mileage figur...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Transformative work of the day, Jenny Holzer edition

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The Toast offers us Baby Jenny Holzer .
Monday, November 23, 2015

ABA Blawg 100

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I'm happy to be there again , along with a number of other fantastic blogs still going strong (not to mention my favorite hall of famer ...

If only the last Trump would sound: Trump University case continues

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Makaeff v. Trump University, LLC, 2015 WL 7302728, No. 10cv0940 (S.D. Cal. Nov. 18, 2015)   Charlatan and budding fascist Donald Trump ...

court skips recent precedent, finds only anonymous communications are "advertising or promotion"

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Arandell Corp. v. Walker, 2015 WL 7308649, No. 14-C-1279 (E.D. Wisc. Nov. 19, 2015)   This case illustrates that lawyering matters a lo...

Court rejects recall when falsely advertising defendant already notified customers

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Riverdale Mills Corp. v. Cavatorta North America, Inc., 2015 WL 7295541, No. 4:15-CV-40132 (Nov. 18, 2015)   Riverdale makes welded wir...