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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2020, @12:40PM
Just took someone else working it through that had the ability to do so.
Courts however usually look down on 'novel' interpretations of law. That is the courts job, and if you do it they start laying down disbarments. It usually takes years to get through the judges though. As someone will have to bring a case and stand up for themselves usually nearly bankrupting themselves in the process. Then life goes on with a more 'this is what the law means'. But until then...