commercial-use

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1263 Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. v. Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete architectural-design commercial-use copyright-law fair-use intellectual-property transformative-use Whether the fair use doctrine under copyright law permits commercial appropriation of an architect's proprietary house plans without compensation or c…
23-228 Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. California 2023-09-12 Denied Response Waived advertising brand-logos celebrity-persona celebrity-rights commercial-speech commercial-use lanham-act motion-picture trademark-infringement Does the Lanham Act prohibit the unauthorized use of a celebrity's persona in advertising third party brands with logos in a commercial motion picture…
22-148 Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC Ninth Circuit 2022-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (30) brand-recognition commercial-speech commercial-use dilution-by-tarnishment first-amendment lanham-act noncommercial-use trademark-infringement Whether humorous use of another's trademark as one's own on a commercial product is subject to the Lanham Act's traditional analysis, or instead recei…
21-6 Lawrence Marano v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response Waived attribution commercial-use copyright-fair-use copyright-infringement fair-use licensing-market statutory-factors transformative-use Whether The Metropolitan Museum of Art's commercial use of a photograph was sufficiently transformative to warrant fair use
19-630 Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore Lake was not an 'area' where a fee was charged,…