Is It Legal For A Clothing Company To Show President Obama Wearing Its Jacket?
One of the trickier and more recent "intellectual property" (and I use the term loosely) rights out there is the "right to publicity" which was an odd sort of invention designed as a way for certain...
View ArticlePETA Vs. Pokemon
It feels like it should be a strange dichotomy, my love for animals coupled with my absolute disdain for PETA, but it isn't. It essentially boils down to this: PETA has a good premise, anti-cruelty to...
View ArticlePETA Goes After Assassin's Creed For Its Depiction Of Whaling; Ubisoft...
I'm not sure why it is that PETA feels it needs to pick fights with video games, but it continues to do so even after its last couple of efforts (vs. Pokemon [catch ALL the fake animals!] and Cooking...
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Monkey See, Monkey Sue... Defendants Ask Judge To Toss Out Ridiculous Monkey...
So at the end of September, we wrote about the absolutely insane lawsuit in which PETA -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- bizarrely claimed to be representing "Naruto" (whose name we...
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Judge In Nutty PETA Monkey Copyright Trial Skeptical Of PETA's Argument, But...
As you know, we've been covering PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)'s absolutely insane lawsuit claiming to represent the monkey who took this selfie: We'd been covering the story of...
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Will PETA Now Sue To Control The Copyright In These Cat Selfies?
As noted recently, PETA isn't giving up in its quixotic quest to argue that it can represent the interests of an Indonesian selfie-taking monkey, and further that the photos in question have a...
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