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• Combating Fake Specimens, Trademark Clutter and Depletion: An Interview with NYU Law Professor Jeanne Fromer

  Alt Legal Team  |  January 11, 2021 7 min read

  One of the cornerstones of US trademark law is that in order to be registered, a trademark must be used in commerce in connection with the listed goods and/or services. N...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #217

  Bri Van Til  |  December 02, 2020 2 min read

  As part of its ongoing copyright battle and/or confusion, Twitch has banned several gamers for streaming videos of themselves playing a new game. In response to Twitch's ...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 172

  Bri Van Til  |  January 21, 2020 2 min read

  In case you're curious, a video recording of a Prince concert is not transformative enough to constitute fair use, even if the videographer chose the vantage po...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 165

  Bri Van Til  |  November 19, 2019 2 min read

  When Penn Law changed its Twitter handle to @careylawupenn, a Penn Law student used @PennLaw to create a parody account, but the University has reclaimed the handle....

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 154

  Bri Van Til  |  September 03, 2019 2 min read

  Basketball star LeBron James filed a trademark application for "Taco Tuesday" in classes related 9, 35, 38 and 41, all related to online media. Maybe he just wanted to gi...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #145

  Justin Wickersham  |  July 02, 2019 2 min read

  Rise of the Robots- Who owns the copyright to a classical symphony when Artificial Intelligence completes an unfinished work?- A new tech tool from MIT can detect when im...

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