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Watch Tower vs. McFree: Nonprofit Defends Critic’s Fair Use & Anonymity Rights

TorrentFreak

After reviewing McFree’s videos, last month a New York judge denied the Watch Tower application declaring that McFree’s use of Watch Tower clips was permitted under fair use. The nonprofit group has now stepped in to defend not only fair use but McFree’s right to remain anonymous.

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Best of 2010: An opinion to Di for

Likelihood of Confusion

First posted on May 5, 2010. The post Best of 2010: An opinion to Di for appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. I do a lot of bellyaching around here about how there are never any consequences for filing frivolous trademark and copyright lawsuits. What’s the.

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Harpic v. Domex:Product disparagement or nominative fair use?

IP and Legal Filings

Nominative fair use of a trademark is a legal doctrine that can be used as a defence in some types of trademark infringement cases. Following are the measures to be taken care of while taking nominative fair use as a defence – The use of the registered trade mark was bonfide. No sponsorship or endorsement.

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How Fair Use Helps Bloggers Publish Their Research (Cross-Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

[I published this post initially on the Association of Research Libraries blog in celebration of Fair Use Week 2022. Fair use is supposed to protect research bloggers in these circumstances. 2010 WL 4115413 (D. 2010), a blogger won a motion to dismiss for republishing 8 sentences of a 30 sentence new article.

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Best of 2010: Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010

Likelihood of Confusion

First posted on January 17, 2010. The post Best of 2010: Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010 appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list. One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and the links, by way of.

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Fair Use Shields Google in Its Copyright Battle with Oracle

The IP Law Blog

Finding Google’s copying a fair use, the Supreme Court ended Oracle’s decade-long attempt to recover copyright damages. At the time Google was developing the Android platform, many software developers were using Sun Microsystems’ Java programming language and its popular Java SE platform. However, the majority did not agree.

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“The Copyright Case of the Century”: Final Settlement between Google and Oracle on API Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

It started out in 2010 when Oracle sued Google for copying the application programming interfaces (APIs) of Java, a programming language developed and licensed by Sun Microsystems and later acquired by Oracle, in Google’s development of the Android operating system. The case meandered through constant reversals of judicial judgements.