TorrentFreak

AUGUST 20, 2024

Advertising revenue that once kept digital publications online, later began to diminish. That was partly explained by the rise of browser-based ad blocking software, itself a response to the rise of aggressive and intrusive advertising. Popularity of free-to-consume digital versions had a tendency to cannibalize print sales.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

He found that many commercially-available products were not being sold as advertised and included fillers and even toxic substances mixed in. Perhaps the most damming evidence came out in a February 2022 feature published by Science Magazine. It was then that a formal investigation began.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

In recent first-instance rulings, copies of David by Michelangelo and Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci were prevented from being freely used on a board game, a magazine cover page, and an advertising commercial (see also DeAngelis/Giardini here ; Dore/Caso here and here ).

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Public Domain Artwork Copyright Marketing 132

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Courts in the Fifth Circuit consider: (1) the type of mark allegedly infringed; (2) the similarity between the two marks; (3) the similarity of the products or services; (4) the identity of retail outlets and purchasers; (5) the identity of the advertising media used; (6) the defendant’s intent; and (7) actual confusion.

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Blogging Social Media Television Fair Use 111

43(B)log

MARCH 6, 2024

1, 2024) NYU Langone sued Northwell for trade dress infringement, unfair competition and false designation of origin, and false advertising under the Lanham Act, as well as related claims under the New York GBL and New York common law. The court dismissed the complaint—the false advertising claims with prejudice.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 29, 2024

provides a remedy against “[a]ny person who uses a deceased personality’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services, without prior consent.”

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IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, a nationally-distributed newspaper with one of the largest circulations in Canada. million readers every issue in print and digital.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The High Court also noted that merely because the impugned mark’s advertisement occurred in Delhi, the courts of Delhi will not become eligible to adjudicate on the dispute. The Defendant was served with a copy of summons and it did appear in one of the hearings, but later stopped, thus causing the matter to proceed ex-parte.

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SpicyIP

JULY 4, 2024

The invention, belonging to the field of computer science, provides a method for creating and delivering interactive digital content for online advertising campaigns. This includes publications in academic journals, conference posters, newspapers, industry magazines, exhibitions, personal blogs, videos, and even recorded verbal statements.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Autocontrol and Asociación Española de Anunciantes (Spanish Advertisers’ Association or AEA) agree on the ethical standards that should be applied to advertising by influencers from January 1, 2021. My product was copied and I haven’t registered it. Final act: will the Supreme Court lend bullfighting a helping hand?

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Apple had accused Samsung of copying the features of the iPhone, like the rounded-rectangle shape, home button, and the grid icon layout. Its reputation across the globe and exposure of Indian consumers through advertisements in foreign magazines were taken note of by the court.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

Case Summaries Abbott Healthcare Private Limited vs Vinsac Pharma on 17 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Abbott Healthcare sued two defendants for trademark and copyright infringement, claiming they deceptively copied its well-known LIMCEE Vitamin C tablets by selling LIMEECEE with similar packaging.

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Trademark Patent Patent Application Copyright 59

LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

The Supreme Court narrowed its attention to the only issue before it, the use of the image in a magazine instead of Goldsmith’s photo, as opposed to as a series of paintings/lithographs. copyright law. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 11, 2021

In the absence of supporting evidence, we cannot find that Applicant has advertised extensively." Sausser Summers also claimed that it “has advertised in print magazines, social media platforms, internet ads, and various other sources across the U.S. that was under the firm name, not under the proposed mark.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Newspaper and magazine articles did not indicate whether they were addressed to Formula 1 fans only or to the general public. They also lacked information on the number of copies sold and their distribution among the general public or the number of online views.

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Art Brands Branding Branding 107

IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Cooper case, a work does not have to be entirely unique in order to be protected by copyright; rather, there needs to be some effort put into it and it cannot be a carbon copy of another person’s work. However, the Courts claimed that since Koons had seen the image in Allure Magazine. According to the Macmillan & Co.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 17, 2021

Plaintiffs sued for false advertising and false endorsement under the Lanham Act, violation of their right to publicity, deceptive trade practices under New York GBL Section 349, and defamation. 2021), which considered all these claims except for false advertising. The court was guided by Electra v. 59 Murray Enterprises, Inc.,

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Social Media False Advertising Advertising Advertising 45

The TTABlog

APRIL 25, 2023

Applicant argued that its proposed marks are not likely to be translated into English but would be would be perceived as trademarks, since the marks are displayed as such on labels and in advertising. Applicant's evidence of recognition from fashion magazines was not such direct evidence. Read comments and post your comment here.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Following Prince’s sudden and untimely death in 2016, the Warhol Foundation, successor to the copyright in the Prince Series, licensed to Condé Nast one of the Prince Series images for use in a commemorative magazine titled The Genius of Prince , which featured on its cover the image from the Prince Series. 5 (quoting Google , 141 S.

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CopyrightsWorld

JUNE 10, 2021

It is one of the best means of advertising your business. Do you want to get hired by a fashion magazine? Physical copy matters too! Whether you’re an entrepreneur looking to find photography clients, a freelancer struggling to get clients on UpWork, or a creative seeking employment, you need a portfolio website.

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Designs Design Art Business 98

43(B)log

MAY 22, 2023

May 19, 2023) Whereas the timeshare false advertising cases might be making law largely applicable to other timeshare cases, what’s going on in the strip club advertising cases might have somewhat broader implications. Several had appeared in magazines, advertising campaigns, television episodes, and films. 21-2149-cv, F.4th

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Social Media False Advertising Advertising Advertising 49

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Traditional advertising can change firsthand consumer impressions, both pre and post experience—telling consumers coffee isn’t bitter makes their impressions of bitterness change, etc. Expensive to show it by surveys; most show it by circumstantial evidence of advertising and sales.

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Copyright Business Brands Branding 69

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Industries: advertising, merchandising, movies/TV, and video games. Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content. Thus, intermediate copying for reverse engineering of software is now a rule.

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43(B)log

MARCH 31, 2023

Upon Darger’s death, the Lerners took control of his works under the allegedly false pretense that he had gifted the physical copies of his works and their associated copyrights to them.” Nimmer even uses a relevant example: “if author A submits a story to editor E at a magazine for consideration.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 18, 2022

WRB pointed to “promotions and features in magazines,” but at least one of those featured an image of the stump, hammer and nails with no reference to WRB or “Hammer-Schlagen,” “so it is as likely the flyer is evidence of generic use as of acquired distinctiveness.” Its advertising is in orange with block letters and a drawing of a hammer.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

at 997-98, Rogers limited the application of the Lanham Act’s prohibition on false advertising “to apply to artistic works only where the public interest in avoiding consumer confusion outweighs the public interest in free expression. ” Id. In VIP Products v. Jack Daniels Products , 953 F.3d 3d 1170 , 1172 (9 th Cir.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 10, 2025

GWA alleged that Grace copied GWAs patented combustion promoter technology and mounted a marketing campaign denigrating GWAs products to customers. The challenged claims were made in a trade magazine for the petroleum industry; on a blog post on Graces website; and, sometimes with greater elaboration, in direct outreach to certain customers.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sears/Compco said there was a right to copy things in the public domain; how did that go away? Farley: In JDI, examples were effective: Blatt said the survey should be relied on because we don’t want judges deciding these questions because judges don’t understand anything about whether panties are related to teen girl magazines.

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