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Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates

posted by martyb on Thursday April 09 2020, @11:31PM   
from the ip-is-ip-is-ip dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Cascade:

Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides To Abuse Trademarks To Shut Down Pirates:

Kerry Culpepper, Hawaiian IP attorney, [decided] to register a bunch of trademarks for piracy related terms and [is] then going around and shutting down accounts for "pirate" services on social media sites.

[...] The idea I suppose is to try to claim that 42 Ventures is suddenly and recently using these marks in commerce, the only way it would have a valid trademark. That, however, is bullshit. The terms and actual content creators were already long using those marks, as were the holders of the social media accounts 42 Ventures is busy taking down. In other words, Culpepper appears to be perfectly willing to abuse trademark law in his efforts to enforce copyright law. That isn't exactly a consistent respect for intellectual property now, is it?

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Original Submission

• Perfectly consistent Perfectly consistent (Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Thursday April 09 2020, @11:47PM (1 child)

  by Immerman (3985) on Thursday April 09 2020, @11:47PM (#980689)

  Seems like a perfectly consistent respect for anything that will make them money to me.

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• Re:Perfectly consistent (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2020, @03:03AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2020, @03:03AM (#980727)

  Don't be so hard on him. With all the ambulances running around these days he's confused and doesn't know which one to chase.

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