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Great Article About INTA (International Trademark Association)
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Negligent Drivers Face Motorcycle Accident Settlements
This is a blog from my friend Michael Ehline from Ehline Law Firm PC. He is a great tort lawyer, so read his guest blog below: Negligent drivers face motorcycle accident settlements, this is the motorcycle accident lawsuits that hold the driver accountable for their actions, when they have been carless or reckless. The motorcycle accident complaint will include compensation for the injuries the rider suffered, the lost wages, permanent disabilities, and other damages that were caused by this accident. The motorcycle accident complaint alleging the negligence of the driver, the experienced motorcycle accident attorney will have investigated the accident and the...
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Tupac Hologram Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues
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Most of you have probably heard about the Tupac hologram at the Coachella Music Festival in California over the weekend. If you haven’t…read the news, there was a Tupac hologram at the Coachella Music Festival over the weekend. Now that’s out of the way, why is this important? First, it was a great post-mortem performance along side Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg which can be seen here. Second, in addition to the incredible technical feat of the hologram, which was a collaboration pushed by Dr. Dre and done by Digital Domain Productions and AV Concepts, Pandora’s box blew up with speculation...
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The Velvet Underground Sues Andy Warhol Foundation for Trademark Infringement
Issues of copyright and trademark ownership can become tricky when an artist makes a work for hire. This is currently the case with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and 60’s rock band The Velvet Underground. Many people would recognize the Andy Warhol stylized print of a banana as the Velvet Underground’s unofficial logo. Many of the same people would also know that the banana was created by Warhol, who often collaborated with the band. But who owns the rights to the iconic print? The banana print was never properly trademarked through a trademark attorney, neither was the copyright. The...
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Yahoo Patent Infringement Dispute with Facebook
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As Facebook readies itself for an initial public offering this spring, tensions are running high in Silicon Valley. A bit too high, perhaps. Yahoo has just sued Facebook for patent infringement over 10 patents that involve methods to advertise online. A similar suit occurred in 2004, when Yahoo sued Google just prior to its IPO. Yahoo has recently come under the management of a new CEO, and it looks like he means business. After initially becoming the internet’s main source of networking and online searching, Yahoo has fallen in recent years to Google and Facebook. A Facebook spokesman recently told...
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Pinterest Walking a Copyright Infringement Tightrope
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The content sharing mega-site “Pinterest” is rapidly gaining online momentum. The site features a virtual “pinboard” where users can post photos they find online and arrange them into albums, sort of like scrapbooking. The site is hugely popular to women under the age of 35; Pinterest’s Facebook page is “liked” by 97% women. This site has been rapidly hailed a demographic marketing super-success, and with good reason. But the site has also drawn an increasing amount of criticism and scrutiny. Pinterest is coming under intense legal pressure; the copyright infringement issues seem glaringly obvious. Unlike Facebook, Youtube, and other very...
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Apple iTV Trademark Infringement
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Apple has been cooking up a new TV-like product for a while, and it’s been coming closer and closer to fruition. Steve Jobs announced “iTV” a while ago, although it has not been launched, only hinted at, and talked about internally. No doubt, consumers will be eager to jump on the iTV bandwagon, as soon as it arrives, and it is rumored to be on schedule for a Christmas 2012 launch. Last week the New York Post reported that Apple was in communications with cable content providers to provide Apple users with some kind of cable-like service. The only issue is...
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Copyright-Infringing Artist May do Hard Time
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Is it possible to do jail time for copyright infringement? If you destroy and falsify discovery information during your federal trial, the answer is yes. You are probably familiar with the iconic Obama posters from the 2008 election. The hugely successful posters were created by Los Angeles artist Shepard Fairey. Fairey based the image off a copyright-protected image, owned by the Associated Press. In 2009, perhaps in a preemptive move, Fairey sued the Associated Press in Federal Court, seeking a declaration that the poster constituted “Fair Use.” The AP countersued. Fairey claimed he had used a certain image of Obama...
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Michael Jordan Trademark Issue in China
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Michael Jordan can certainly relate to Apple’s trademark nightmare in China. Jordan recently filed a law suit in China against the Chinese company Qiaodan for using his name without permission since 2000. Qiaodan means “Jordan” in Chinese, and that name is synonymous with basketball there. Qiaodan has actually filed trademark applications with a trademark attorney for many Jordan-related themes, even names of his children. According to Michael Jordan: “It is deeply disappointing to see a company build a business off my Chinese name without my permission, use the number 23 and even attempt to use the names of my children.” Qiaodan has over 100...
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Newt, SOPA, and the Cybersecurity Act of 2012
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Much of the hoopla regarding SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” has died down during the past month and half. Why? The huge outcry by just about everyone ranging from Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, petition drives, (one by Google claiming it received 7 million signatures), and on and on, has effectively drove the message to Congress that SOPA was something that people were not happy with, even my buddy Newt and his GOP comrades were all against it. (The exceptions were with many of the large entertainments studios and some other surprising SOPA proponents). Towards the end of January, Reuters reported that...
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