Rosa Parks v. Laface Records

How courts have described this case

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

• remarking that a celebrity has an economic interest in his identity that is akin to that of a “traditional trademark holder”
• remanding the case where issues of fact remained for trial as to the first prong, “the artistic relevance prong,” of the Rogers test
• finding that the Second Circuit rejected the alternative avenues test in Rogers
• defining “likelihood” in the Lanham Act context to mean “a ‘probability’ rather than a ‘possibility.’”
• quoting, B.F. Goodrich Co. v. U.S. Filter Corp., 245 F.3d 587, 593 (6th Cir. 2001)
• rejecting an approach that “would needlessly entangle courts in the process of” deciding “whether a title is ‘necessary’ to communicate [an] idea”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).