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Fox News' Cease and Desist Letter to Faux News
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posted by scubacuda
on Tuesday June 24, @05:17PM
from the educating-the-moron-majority dept.
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Agitproperties: Fox News has written a "cease and desist" letter to the folks at Agitproperties for selling merchandise "bearing the Fox Copyrights and Trademarks, without Fox's permission." Agitproperties' response:Our Bill O'Reilly Hitler Youth Tee doesn't even have the word "Fox" or "Bill O'Reilly" on it, yet according to Mr. Silvestri, "The T-shirt 'O'Reilly Youth Tee', in addition to the infringements described herein, shows incredibly poor taste on your part, is highly offensive and clearly demonstrates your bad faith use of the Fox Copyrights and Trademarks." Now isn't that a hoot: to be accused of "incredibly poor taste" and being "highly offensive" by a representative of the network responsible for such benchmarks of good taste such as "Temptation Island 3", "Joe Millionaire" and "Stupid Behavior Caught On Tape". (Note: URL only diplays on IE. For Mozilla, you must highlight the text. With Opera, you must highlight, then copy/paste into another application)
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday June 24, @06:57PM (#815)
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I agree, Murdoch and his network should be the one questioned on taste.
However, from a legal standpoint, I can understand how the question of trademark infringement could be raised, as the logo of Faux news, could be close enough to the Fox News logo. Not knowing any better, could a legitimate claim be made by Fox?
It also seems as if the O'Reilly Merchandise has disappeared from the site. There is also a disclaimer on the home page stating the intent of the site as being one of parody.
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Isn't the test for trademark that of confusion? I don't think anyone with a straight face could claim this could cause confusion in the marketplace. Maybe another case of using law to intimidate, never expecting a court battle. Also, if I remember correctly, trademark doesn't have an exclusion for parody as copyright does...perhaps it's time for one.
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Friday June 27, @06:02AM (#820)
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It is possible, considering the I.Q. level of the majority of Fox news "sponges", that the word "FAUX" could be considered yet another Euro-ization of an English word; much like the trendy "banc", and thus mistake it for a -let's say - FRENCH affiliate of Fox (yeah right). It is also possible that the majority of those who regularly view Fox and lap up it's pabulum, might not understand the actual meaning of the word "FAUX". In view of the vast numbers of those who might fall into that category, it is possible that many people might be misled into thinking that this is an affiliate of Fox. But is anyone in America really stupid enough to believe that? I sure hope not. KEEP FIGHTING GUYS!
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