Boston Athletic Association (Baa) Registered the Name Term Paper

¶ … Boston Athletic Association (BAA) registered the name "Boston Marathon" on the Principal Register and sought to enjoin Sullivan's use of the name "Boston Marathon" on T-shirts Sullivan was selling. Sullivan argued that the Boston Marathon was sponsored by the BAA for the general public, which entitled him to use the name "Boston Marathon" on the T-shirts. However, when Sullivan became an individual vendor he ceased to be a member of the general public. He was not seeking to use BAA's service mark as a consumer, but as a vendor competing with the sale of BAA's official products. Because trade and service marks exist to prevent confusion about the source of products, Sullivan's competing use of the mark is prohibited under trademark law.

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for only $8.97. Fox used 27 seconds of James Brown footage without formally obtaining permission to do so when making the movie The Commitments, and sought a determination of whether doing so violated copyright law. There are certain situations where the general public is entitled to use portions of copyrighted material, but those situations do not apply when the copyrighted material is used for the financial gain of the user. Because of the financial gain, the fair use issue could only be resolved by looking at two issues: competition and creation. Fox was not competing with James Brown or his sales; instead, the footage used may have had a stimulating effect on Brown's sales. Furthermore, the footage was used to create a movie, which was not only a different work or art, but also a different type of art, than the footage used. Therefore, Fox's use of the Brown footage in The Commitments did not violate copyright law.

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