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Intellectual Property Rights for Social Media Influencers

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A Social Media Influencer is someone who creates unique material that keeps people interested on multiple social media platforms, causing them to return for more high-quality information. One of the most significant methods to safeguard material on social media is through copyright. Make intangible assets.

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Federal Court of Canada Issues Default Judgment to Stop Online Infringement

LexBlog IP

Kaira has registered the AMUL trademark in Canada for use in association with milk products. Kaira also owns common law design marks which are displayed on the websites www.amul.com and www.amuldairy.com. First, Kaira provided evidence of the goodwill that the AMUL brand and designs have acquired globally and in Canada.

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Artistic Expression or Crass Commercialism? Drawing the lines in Right of Publicity, Lanham Act, and Commercial Speech Cases

43(B)log

I’m going to talk briefly about last term’s Jack Daniels case—a trademark infringement and dilution case—as well as Elster, argued last week, in which the Justices appeared inclined to reject a First Amendment challenge to the refusal to register the claimed mark “TRUMP TOO SMALL” for t-shirts. Trademark: In Jack Daniel’s v.

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USC IP year in review, TM/ROP

43(B)log

But even if the n-word isn’t unregistrable because it’s scandalous or disparaging, it may still be unregistrable because it already has so much expressive meaning that it’s simply incapable of adding a trademark function. failure to function can be significant in ordinary cases with uncontroversial subject matter.

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