Monday, March 05, 2018

Falsity claim isn't the ticket for cancelled concert

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Universal Attractions, Inc. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., 2018 WL 1089747, No. 17 Civ. 3782 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 12, 2018) Universal, ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Article in Judges' Journal is opinion, not actionable under defamation or false advertising law

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Board of Forensic Document Document Examiners, Inc. v. American Bar Ass’n, No. 17 C 01130, 2018 WL 1014510 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 22, 2018) T...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

NY AG proceeds against Charter for throttling providers while boasting of internet speeds

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  People v. Charter Communications, Inc., No. 450318/2017 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Feb. 16, 2018) Charter allegedly defrauded New York consume...

Reading list: further on global mandatory fair use

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Tanya Aplin & Lionel A. F. Bently, Displacing the Dominance of the Three-Step Test: The Role of Global, Mandatory Fair Use , Forthcomi...

University-adjacent is not university-approved in supplement ads

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Obesity Research Institute, LLC v. Fiber Research International, LLC, 2018 WL 1001089, No. 15-cv-00595 (S.D. Cal. Feb. 21, 2018) Despi...

Crowning inglory: no trade dress in short-lived ads

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EZ Pedo, Inc. v. Mayclin Dental Studio, Inc., No. 16-cv-00731, 2018 WL 934552 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 15, 2018) EZ-Pedo sells “prefabricated pe...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Sanderson can't chicken out of false advertising claims

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Organic Consumers Assoc. v. Sanderson Farms, Inc., 2018 WL 922247, No. 17-cv-03592 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 9, 2018) OCA sued Sanderson, a poul...

claiming to provide services then referring out can be false advertising, but P must still show harm

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Larry Pitt & Associates v. Lundy Law LLP, No.. 13-2398, --- F.Supp.3d ----, 2018 WL 925011 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 15, 2018) The parties ar...

When an author's name isn't CMI

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Fischer v. Forrest, Nos. 14 Civ. 1304, 1307, 2018 WL 948758 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 16, 2018) This very outdoorsily named and themed litigation...

Conference: administrative law/private law interface in IP

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The Administrative-Private Law Interface in IP,  March 29, 2018 A conference co-organized by the Project on the Foundations of Private L...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

False endorsement: some bad questions to ask in a survey

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Gibson v. BTS North, Inc., 2018 WL 888872, No. 16-24548 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 14, 2018) Plaintiffs are professional models, actresses, and...

Zazzle injunction reversed: irreparable harm is hard to show

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Greg Young Pub’g, Inc. v. Zazzle, Inc., No. 16-cv-04587 (C.D. Cal. Feb. 8, 2018) After a jury trial finding Zazzle liable for copyrigh...
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The other Redbox case: the color may fade, but not the mark

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Redbox Automated Retail, LLC v. Xpress Retail LLC, 2018 WL 950098, No. 17 C 5596 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 20, 2018) Redbox sued defendant DVDXp...

Reading list: global fair use

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Lionel Bently and Tanya Aplin, Whatever Became of Global, Mandatory, Fair Use? A Case Study in Dysfunctional Pluralism The internation...
Friday, February 16, 2018

WIPIP concurrent 3 (most of it)

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Annemarie Bridy, Fearless Girl Meets Charging Bull: Copyright and the Regulation of Intertextuality DiModica (who made Charging Bull) ...