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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 199

  Bri Van Til  |  July 28, 2020 2 min read

  Sportswear company Under Armour sued Uncle Martian in China for its confusingly similar logo and emerged victorious: the China’s Supreme People’s Court has affirmed t...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 183

  Bri Van Til  |  April 07, 2020 2 min read

  The Internet Archive has opened a National Emergency Library with access to over a million digital books.The Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton wants permission from authors ...

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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 # 156

  Bri Van Til  |  September 17, 2019 2 min read

  Nintendo's recent patent suggests it might start making foldable JoyCon controllers for the Switch. Meanwhile, Razer Asia Pacific recently filed a patent application for ...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #95

  Hannah Samendinger  |  July 03, 2018 2 min read

  - Bacardi has been enforcing their trademark rights since 1936, often using the slogan "It's your right" to assure consumers they should have Bacardi rum in their Bacardi...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #62

  Hannah Samendinger  |  November 08, 2017 2 min read

  CBS has sued a photographer for copyright infringement for publishing stills from a TV show.  ...

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