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Letter from AmeriKat II: Viacom v YouTube – The Viacom Appeal

January 11th, 2011 · No Comments

Willfull Blindness cannot save you nowViacom argues that, even if Section 512(c) excludes from liability those that do no not have URL-specific knowledge of infringement, the district court erred by finding for YouTube where the evidence showed that it…

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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks

Letter from AmeriKat I: Viacom v YouTube – The Viacom Appeal

January 11th, 2011 · No Comments

The past three Sundays the Amerikat has found herself engaged in many battles. First she was battling London Heathrow’s snow incompetency, which delayed her flight home by four days. Then she was left battling a furiously stubborn cold, and then final…

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Tags: Copyright · Design rights · Trade marks

Google / LVMH Battle over Trade Marks in adwords

March 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Google and LVMH are back in court this week over the use of trademarked terms in when used in adwords. Google’s current stance in the UK is that trademarked terms can be utilised as a search term to generate the display of competitors’ adverts, but cannot be used within the text of the advert itself. [...]

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Tags: Trade marks