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11th Circ. rules in favor of MTV in the 'Floribama Shore' trademark infringement suit.
Court held that the “show's title was relevant to the content of the series as it refers to the geographic area and the southern, beach subculture the creators sought to portray.” And further noted that “the title is clearly not meant to reference the bar, which is located on the Florida-Alabama state line.”
https://www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit-sides-with-floribama-shore-creators-in-trademark-battle/
This profile of Elvin Jones, one of my all-time favorite drummers, is worth reading.
https://drummagazine.com/the-magnificent-life-of-elvin-jones/
Patagonia sues Gap for Trademark infringement.
Patagonia alleges that Gap copied its iconic pocket flap design: rectangular logo with a mountain silhouette above the pocket flap, introduced in 1989.
Patagonia claims that Gap’s actions “confuses shoppers into believing it made the jackets” or let Gap “use its trademarks.”
The similarities here are glaringly clear. But *ideas can’t be trademarked. So does this come down to the *idea of a pocket flap on the left side with a “mountain” logo?
“Kline had never before conducted a fitness hearing.’ Forty years later, he couldn’t remember the details of this one. But it wasn’t hard to imagine. Guy and Wright seemed like irresponsible teenagers from a bad neighborhood who had gotten their hands on a gun and done something terrible.”
—Jesse Barron for the New York Times
“The Judge and the Case That Came Back to Haunt Him”
https://tinyurl.com/yc3btde8
This is a great profile of author S.A. Cosby.
Even more, it offers insight on one writer’s pathway to published book author. A pathway where endurance and the “small breaks” ultimately add up to the “big break.”
“S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own”
by Dwight Garner for the New York Times
“…the first Black woman to direct a film for a major Hollywood studio, was introduced by Viola Davis and praised by Ava DuVernay. She addressed a film industry that had finally accepted that, as she put it: ‘Black and female is bankable.’”
—Lois Beckett for The Guardian
“‘With my camera I don’t shoot, I heal’: director Euzhan Palcy receives honorary Oscar”
“When monetary policy is too easy – either because the Federal Reserve sets the interest rate too low or because it increases money growth too rapidly – there will be an increase in inflation, as we are seeing now. This close relationship is grounded in economic theory and has been observed in practice in many countries around the world over many years.”
—John Taylor, interviewed by Melissa De Witte for Stanford News
“Failure to adhere to Apple’s and Google’s guidelines would be catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from their app stores and making it more difficult for billions of potential users to get Twitter’s services. This gives Apple and Google enormous power to shape the decisions Twitter makes.”
—Yoel Roth for the New York Times
“I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/opinion/twitter-yoel-roth-elon-musk.html
The 10 most regretted college majors.
“Of graduates who regretted their major, most said that, if they could go back, they would now choose computer science or business administration instead.”
—Jessica Dickler for CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/12/the-top-10-most-regretted-college-majors.html
“Imani Perry has won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for ‘South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.’“
Congratulations to @imaniperry, an exceptional writer, intellectual, and scholar.
New York Times Review by
Tayari Jones
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/books/review/south-to-america-imani-perry.html
