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  1. The Boys Light Up: Australian Crawl Trademark dispute -
    'James Reyne and Simon Binks, two of the founding members of veteran pub rock act Australian Crawl, have issued a statement addressing a nascent trademark dispute with former member Bill McDonough.

    The statement notes that on Thursday, March 12th, the band's founding members filed an application to the Australian Federal Court challenging McDonough’s acquisition of Australian Crawl trademarks.

    McDonough had previously acquired these trademarks back in 1990 for matters relating to “Entertainment services including artists' agencies, sound recording, radio and television programme production, theatre or cinema productions and amusement centres and parks," while he acquired the trademark for matters relating to “Clothing, footwear and all goods” in 1994.

    However, the band contends there was never any consultation or agreement with any members of Australian Crawl in relation to registering the trademarks, and "As such, the founding members do not recognise Bill’s ownership of these assets."'
    themusic.com.au/news/australia
    #Australiancrawl #auslaw #trademark

  2. Vegadelphia Foods sued Beyond Meat (BYND.O) for trademark infringement, and a jury awarded $38.9 million for infringing Vegadelphia's trademark on the phrase "Where Great Taste Is Plant-Based" through Beyond Meat's use of the slogans "Great Taste, Plant-Based" and "Plant-Based, Great Taste" to advertise a meatless sausage breakfast sandwich.

    reuters.com/legal/litigation/b

    #slogan #trademark #infringement #jury

  3. NFT Marketplace Magic Eden Joins D3 to Bid for Web3 Domain Names - NFT marketplace Magic Eden, a prominent player in the Web3 space, and D3 Global have anno... - cryptonews.com/news/nft-market #blockchainnews #magiceden #trademark #nfts

  4. This new #EFF (@eff) brief has the important goal of striking down the #DMCA #anticircumvention clause in the name of #FairUse and #FreeSpeech.
    eff.org/press/releases/licensi

    But the principle that "Pseudo-#IP Rules Shouldn't Block Free Speech" has the nice side effect of highlighting what's wrong with this otherwise unrelated effort:

    "Jewish Americans Try to Trademark Pro-Palestinian 'River to the Sea' Slogan"
    newsweek.com/jewish-lawyer-wan

    #Copyright #Trademark