Trademark, Copyright & False Advertising Newsletter

In This Issue:

• Ninth Circuit Curtails Cybersquatting Remedies
  
• The NFL and the Baltimore Ravens Win Another Round in Their Fight Over the Application of the Fair Use Doctrine to the Ravens’ Old “Flying B” Logo
• Financial Research Service’s Distribution of Copyrighted Recording of Earnings Call Was Fair Use, Says Second Circuit 
• First Amendment Bars “Freeway” Ricky Ross’ Right of Publicity Claim
• Seventh Circuit Holds that “Brand Marketing” Ad Constitutes Commercial Speech and that Michael Jordan Can Pursue Right of Publicity and Lanham Act Claims
• Ninth Circuit Holds that Washington’s Publicity Rights Statute Applies to Sale of Goods in Washington, Even If Decedent Was Domiciled in New York
• Cases of Interest Pending in the US Supreme Court