MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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He wants to trademark a brand name that sounds like the F-word. The Supreme Court is listening.
By artappraiser on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 5:28pm |By Robert Barnes @ WashingtonPost.com, April 13
[....] the Supreme Court’s next case. Iancu v. Brunetti is a trademark dispute in which Los Angeles artist Erik Brunetti sued the government, saying it violated the First Amendment by refusing to register the trademark for his “subversive” clothing line: FUCT.[....]
“Giving offense is a viewpoint,” wrote Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. “We have said time and again that ‘the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers.’ ”
Brunetti is challenging a neighboring provision in the law, which prohibits the registration of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks. And his odds look good [....]
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