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07/06/16

Axl Rose’s Big Issue: Singer files DMCA complaint with Google over unflattering pictures

Axl Rose, Guns N’ Roses frontman, has sought to employ the take down provisions of the US’s DMCA – or Digital Millennium Copyright Act – to demand Google remove certain concert images of him from their search engine. While it seems at least part of Rose’s motivation is removing unflattering pictures from circulation, he is...

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In 2003, Steve Carbon (‘Steve’), a blogger from Dallas, started a newsletter that leaked reports from the show the Bachelor and the Bachelorette that had not yet been aired, even revealing the finale of one of the show’s seasons. After some triumphant spills reaching an audience of millions, RealitySteve.com was born and dedicated to spoiling...

Tour promotors take note – the importance of work visas for touring artists

Popular US singer, Kina Grannis (‘Grannis’) and her touring band and road crew were recently detained in Jakarta for 100 days for visa fraud. Unbeknownst to Grannis and her crew, their tour promoter had reportedly not organised the correct visas for them to work in the country. Indonesian immigration officials allegedly approached the band onstage after...

Three’s a crowd – Tinder sues threesome App 3nder

It appears Match Group, the owners of dating app Tinder, have or are shortly intending to launch trade mark infringement action in the UK against new threesome rival app 3nder. Tinder reportedly issued a cease and desist letter to 3nder in December 2015 demanding that 3nder shut down its website and remove all references to...

Facebook and Instagram win UDRP dispute concerning confusingly similar registered domain names in China

On 10 May 2016, the Administrative Panel of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Panel”) made its decision in relation to complaints filed by Facebook, Inc and Instagram, LLC concerning alleged infringements of their respective trade marks. By way of background, Facebook is the registered owner of the trade mark “FACEBOOK”, which was first...

Brand protection – it’s not child’s play

Two children’s toy manufacturers have gone head to head in a trade mark dispute heard before the Federal Court of Australia. The dispute arose when Australian company Playgro alleged its PLAYGRO trade marks were infringed contrary to s 120(1) of the Trade Mark Act 1995 (Cth) by Playgo Art & Craft Manufactory and Playgo Toy...

The Power of the McTrademark!

Giant global fast-food conglomerate McDonalds has successfully opposed the registration of “McKosher” in Australia. Although McDonalds do not have a registered trade mark in Australia for “McKosher”, McDonalds argued that many of their registered and unregistered trade marks incorporate the prefix “Mc”, which are of the ilk, ‘McFood’ where the element ‘Food’ is variable...

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