David L. Clark

Commercial litigation and intellectual property attorney. I will post my thoughts about random pop culture, trademarks, IP laws, and funny legal cases here.

[David L. Clark @law_DLC]

Reminder: copyrights and trademarks are different things. 👍

[US Copyright Office @CopyrightOffice]

Remember, names are not protected by copyright law, however some names may be protected under trademark law. See Circular 33 "Copyright Protection Not Available for Names, Titles, or Short Phrases" for more: https://t.co/pPATIV8i1W

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Fun announcement to share: on Monday, July 27th, I will be joining the Houston law firm of Johnson DeLuca Kurisky & Gould (https://t.co/589RHkOHsB) as senior counsel. I will be handling commercial litigation matters and am excited to join the team.

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That was fun. Got to present to HIPLA a CLE on trademark law and the "failure to function" of all these COVID and CORONA*-related applications being filed with the USPTO. Even got to chat about ethics.

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I am giving a presentation to @hipla_houston tomorrow on COVID-19 and new trademark filings with the USPTO. I think you can still register at https://t.co/GpoHkx2MOv

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In response to the @THR and @TheAVClub, among others. The SPACE FORCE trademark story is not really a story. No one is losing rights to anything. https://t.co/oMxwnCAGzk

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I love you John Oliver, but this is not how trademarks work.
https://t.co/2eHedZzhAX

[Jed I. Goodman © @jedigoodman]

John Oliver responds to Dana White.
#lastweektonight

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Donald Trump tweeted a deepfake video last weekend. I wrote about some of the copyright implications and a possible fair use / parody defense (or is it satire!?). https://t.co/jucGemZPp1

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After reading the @BuzzFeedNews article on Grubhub last week... I had some thoughts. Here's a short article on Lanham Act implications from using alternate phone numbers on Google/Yelp. https://t.co/5Yx4M4x1th

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@everclay1 seeing it spelled as "copywrite" broke our collective brains for a bit.

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A few words and legal thoughts about Dr. Drew and his attempt to silence criticism of his bad coronavirus hot taeks via copyright laws. https://t.co/amdfS1s4WJ

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I wish the writers of @BetterCallSaul consulted with me before they ran with last night's "copyright infringement" plot point. (Because that's not how copyrights work.) https://t.co/3JbXdaTWCK

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@design_law I very much wanted to focus exclusively on copyrights coming out of law school in 2002, but I quickly learned that (outside 2-3 cities), this area of law does not pay the bills. I had to expand to other areas of "soft IP" law quickly.

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My annual re-posting of this detailed article on nominative fair use as it relates to the SUPER BOWL trademark. Yes, you can say the words and do not need to refer to "the Big Game." https://t.co/1bZiBqfQlA

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Once more for the morning crowd. On Prince, YouTube, copyright infringement, and live concert videos. https://t.co/KrNcTx2CYM

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I wrote a bit of a deep-dive into the federal Massachusetts court's copyright analysis of the Prince / YouTube / concert video case. https://t.co/KrNcTx2CYM

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Re-posting from 2 years ago: "Star Wars" and intellectual property rights. Disney may now control the most valuable IP in the world with this franchise. https://t.co/WBybm30m8v

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a quick thanks to @lexlanham and her Failure to Function law review article(s) for providing part of the backbone to this blog idea.

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I wrote a short analysis on some recent trademark filings based on "popular" internet terms. Few of these are actually trademarks. #failuretofunction https://t.co/SgwVLndNp9

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Taylor Swift owns the copyrights in her songs, but not in her sound recordings. How can that be? Here is a short analysis of that conflict. https://t.co/Xm8ILwDgJm

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Because the discussion of this topic by non-trademark experts is really starting to irritate me. https://t.co/bDrxIRSDNS