I employ trademark preemption analysis to mediate disputes between trademark and right of publicity laws.
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Third, recognizing trademark’s personality-based interests provides a partial explanation (and limiting principle) for some of its expansionist impulses.įinally, I contend that recognizing this broader vision of trademark law provides significant guidance as to how to navigate the identity thicket. Second, this understanding shores up trademark’s negative spaces, especially when truthful information is at issue. First, I suggest that recognizing a personality-based facet of trademark law suggests a basis to limit the alienation of personal marks in some contexts. And, as I demonstrate here, it turns out that the same is true for trademark and unfair competition laws, which have long protected a person’s autonomy and dignity interests as well as their market-based ones.Īfter documenting and developing this overlooked aspect of trademark law, I suggest a number of broader insights of this more robust account of trademark law both for addressing the identity thicket and for trademark law more generally. As I have documented elsewhere, the right of publicity has long been directed at protecting both the economic and the noneconomic interests of identity-holders. Part of the challenge for mediating these disputes is that both right of publicity and trademark laws are commonly thought of as concerned solely with market-based interests. Current jurisprudence provides little to no guidance on the most basic questions surrounding this thicket, such as what right to use a person’s identity, if any, flows from the transfer of marks that incorporate indicia of a person’s identity, and whether such transfers can empower a successor company to bar a person from using their own identity, and, if so, when. This creates what I call an “identity thicket” of overlapping and conflicting rights over a person’s identity. Increasingly, however, these rights are working at odds with one another and can point in different directions with regard to who controls a person’s name, likeness, and broader indicia of identity. "This game is going to set the standard for all future games.Both trademark and unfair competition laws and state right of publicity laws protect against unauthorized uses of a person’s identity. but can you track them down and stop them in time? Find out in this thrilling Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game! As the champion of the Lost Lands, you're the only one brave enough to face them. The horsemen are after a key that will allow them to control parallel worlds, and they'll stop at nothing to get it. They burn villages, freeze the water, and bring darkness wherever they go. Big Fish Editor's Choice! This title was chosen for its high standard of quality and amazingly positive reviews from our Game Club beta testers.Īfter several centuries of peace, a terrible new evil threatens the Lost Lands! Rumors are spreading of four mysterious horsemen cutting a path of terror throughout the land.
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