‘The SneakerDon’ under fire over trademark infrigment

The popular sneaker marketplace The SneakerDon is currently facing problems with respect to their trademark application made back in August 2015.

The pending trademark application which aims to register the below mentioned trademark lookalike across United States has been opposed by the Paramount Pictures Corp. The Paramount Pictures which owns various intellectual property rights in the iconic film, including a “family of trademarks,” has opposed the pending trademark registration on the basis that the picture/logo too closely resembles the logo for the Oscar-winning film The Godfather.

 

IFP Copyright Infringements: case of copyright licensing going wrong

This is an interesting case with regards to copyright infringement by company that specialises in production of various entertainment packages for its clients.

A group of record companies and music publishers that included MG Recordings, Capitol Records and Universal Music Publishing Group brought a claim for copyright infringement against IFP. The henceforth mentioned plaintiffs argued that IFP failed to obtain and secure appropriate copyright licences for its entertainment packages. IFP as producer of these packages, supplied its products to many house hold airlines such as American Airlines and United Airlines used as in-flight entertainment. IFP created the packages by copying the digital and CD tracks into internal hardware. These files were later encoded and further distributed back in United States for further sale to above-mentioned airlines. (UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. v. Global Eagle Entm’t, et al., Case No. CV-14-3466-GW (JPR)) These actions did not go unnoticed for a long time and claims for infringement of the right to reproduction and distribution under  s.106 of the US Copyright Act 1976, and the further importation rights under s.602(a)(1) US Copyright Act 1976 were brought up by affected parties.