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Fair Use
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Are We Having Fair Use Yet?
Zippy The Pinhead on fair use, via Copyfight. Official Zippy site.
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Sweet Nominative Fair Use of Mine
FindLaw reports that a California federal court has rejected a motion for injunctive relief brought by Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, to prevent the use of the name HOLLYWOOD…
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Parody – Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Parody fact pattern. Assume that this work does not originate with the owner of the trademarks and copyrights in Miss Piggy (I don't know where it came from). A non-infringing parody…
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Fox Motion Against Franken Denied – Court Holds Claim "Wholly Without Merit."
Yahoo is reporting that District Court Judge Chin has denied Fox' motion for an injunction against the Al Franken book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," stating that…
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EBAY, GOOGLE, Paid Search and Nominative Fair Use
Because I'm writing an article on the application of trademark law to paid search, in connection with which I have looked at the trademark and relevancy policies of the search…
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FindLaw co-founder helps overhaul Stanford fair use site
The Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Web site today announced a complete redesign and update, overseen by Timothy Stanley, who earlier this year left FindLaw, the company he co-founded. The…
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The End to One BEANIE BABY Fair Use Case
The Supreme Court denied cert today in Ty, Inc.v. Publications Int'l Ltd ., 292 F.3d 512 (7th Cir. 2002) (Upholding fair use of BEANIE BABY marks in collectors' publications, Posner.,…
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Fair Use of SNAKEHEAD FISH for Snakehead Fish
Here's a guy who is attempting to use trademark law to build up some sort of snakehead fish monopoly. Let's be clear - I can sell t-shirts with pictures of…