OBH, Inc. v. Spotlight Magazine, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding thebuffalonews.com to infringe and dilute the trademark, \The Buffalo News.\
• “Whether a particular domain name is entitled to protection under the First Amendment depends on the extent of its communicative message.”
• “[T]he Court cannot compare the two web sites in terms of superior or inferior quality.”
• “Thus, even if users will easily recognize, upon reaching defendants’ web site, that it is only a parody, the use of plaintiffs’ mark as the site’s domain name ... creates initial interest confusion”
• “[T]he national, and even international, nature of the Internet itself makes defendants’ use of plaintiffs’ trademark as a domain name a ‘use in commerce’ for purposes of the Lanham Act.”
• “Use of another’s trademark is entitled to First Amendment protection only when the use of that mark is part of a communicative message, not when it is used merely to identify the source of a product.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).