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One of the ornaments that grace our living room coffee table is a small lamp that features Betty Boop playing the ukulele underneath a palm tree. Because of a case from the Ninth Circuit this week, now I wish I had kept the original box and could tell what company manufactured it. This case (Fleischer [...]
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Copyright and Football
Now there’s a combination most people don’t think about together. Recently the NFL sent cease-and-desist letters to a number of New Orleans t-shirt manufacturers, claiming that the shirts, which depicted the New Orleans Saints “Who Dat” slogan and the team’s fleur-de-lis emblem, violated the league’s copyright and trademarks. Irate fans and merchants protested. Louisiana politicians [...]
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