Will the real Sarah Palin please standup?: Interplay between Right of Publicity and Trademark
OR, What’s in a Name? Personal Names as Trade Names REMIXED. By Barry Neil Shrum, Esquire (with Ashley Trout) “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” You may know this quote from William Shakespeare’s classic play Romeo and Juliet or from the more “pop-culture” [...]
TIVO v. ECHOSTAR
Editors Note: The following is a research paper from one of the students in my Entertainment Law & Licensing class I teach at Belmont University’s Curb School of Music. By G. GRANT GUINANE On July 30, 1998 Tivo Inc. registered a patent for their multimedia time warping system that allows a user to store selected [...]
Hey, what’s the big idea? Protecting your ideas when submitting them to a third party.
One question clients often asked me is whether an idea can be protected. The question frequently arises when a client has an idea for a screenplay, or an outline for a story, or a unique title for a song or book, and wishes to submit or “pitching” that idea to a major movie house, publisher [...]
What's in a Name? Personal Names as Trade Names
By James H. Harris III* More than just occasionally, entertainers adopt stage names. They do so because they believe the new name will add a luster and specific identity to their careers. Thus, Harold S. Jenkins became Conway Twitty. A stage name, of course, is a type of mark that an entertainer uses to identify [...]
