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“P” Logo Trademark – Pinterest and Path Clash


“P” Logo Trademark – Pinterest and Path Clash Pinterest, the popular photo-sharing app, has run into copyright issues before during its brief life (a few of my posts on the topic can be found here and here.) Now it seems that they’ve found themselves in the middle of a trademark fight. This one concerns the first letter in their name, which they share with Path, a photo-sharing social media competitor.

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NLRB Addresses Employees’ Use of Company Logos and Trademarks


NLRB Addresses Employees’ Use of Company Logos and Trademarks For the last few years, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has been issuing rulings that tend to broadly interpret employees’ rights when it comes to company social media policies. What about company logos and trademarks? Can a company’s intellectual property be used by an employee even when the use is arguably against the company’s interest?

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Words With More Than Friends?


Words With More Than Friends? Zynga, the producer of a variety of online and mobile games – including Words With Friends (which, let’s be honest, is a bit like Scrabble) and other games in the “With Friends” family – has filed suit against the developers of an adult relationship-oriented application with the charming name Bang With Friends (“BWF” from here on out.)

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Judge Rules News Agencies Can’t Use Twitter Photos Without Permission


Judge Rules News Agencies Can’t Use Twitter Photos Without Permission In a landmark social media law case, a Federal judge in New York ruled this week that news agencies can’t publish photos found on Twitter without the photographer’s permission. Neither the fact that the photos were certainly newsworthy – they portrayed images of the devastating earthquake in Haiti – nor that Twitter allows anyone to reproduce the photos (via re-Tweeting) were enough to overcome the photographer’s rights under copyright law.

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