Trademark owners may howl at the artistic and humorous use of their marks by someone else, but that use might be protected as fair use. Trademark owners’ ears perked up at an appeals court holding last year that parody is a...more
Creators of works based on another’s copyrighted work have often relied on a defense to copyright infringement known as fair use. Fair use may apply, for example, when a creator takes the work of an earlier creator and...more