Lisa Ramsey on Nostr: This part of the Court’s holding harms free speech. SCOTUS was wrong when it said ...
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"content": "This part of the Court’s holding harms free speech. SCOTUS was wrong when it said that judges never applied the Rogers test to source-identifying uses of marks. Examples are the Punchbowl and Empire cases, where the accused infringers used words for their dictionary meaning: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/06/resolving-conflicts-between-trademark-and-free-speech-rights-after-jack-daniels-v-vip-products-guest-blog-post.htm",
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