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17 Oct 2011, 3:01 am by John L. Welch
- ed.].Turning to the merits, the Board reviewed the history of Motown records, finding that Opposer has used the mark MOTOWN since 1959 in connection with musical recordings and performances. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 5:52 pm
Tonight's contestants on American Idol all will be singing Motown in honor of the record label's 50th Anniversary. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 9:32 am by Marty Schwimmer
Anyway, Mattel filed for MOTOWN METAL and UMG, owner of Motown Records opposed on confusion and dilution grounds, winning on both (decision below). [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 5:05 pm by John Holmquist
"    Motown had a number of different labels including Motown, Tamla, Gordy, Soul, and Rare Earth. [read post]
30 Aug 2009, 10:13 pm
The Board found confusion likely with the mark MOTOWN, registered for musical recordings and previously used for clothing. [read post]
10 Aug 2019, 1:18 am by Steve Lubet
Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" was released on the Soul label in 1966, a subsidiary of Motown Records it was backed by the Funk Brothers. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 10:58 pm by Steve Lubet
"I Heard It through the Grapevine" was written for Motown Records by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, without an artist in mind. [read post]
12 Mar 2022, 12:30 am by Steve Lubet
Smokey Robinson wrote "Get Ready" for the Temptations in 1966, making it the last song he wrote for them at Motown Records. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 4:41 am
We have recently gotten some of the key papers in a contested Philadelphia case involving a University of Pennsylvania student, Motown Record Company v. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 2:30 am by John L. Welch
Mattel, Inc., 100 USPQ2d 1868 (TTAB 2011) [precedential].The Board sustained UMG's opposition to the mark MOTOWN METAL for toy vehicles and accessories, finding it likely to cause confusion with, and likely to dilute by blurring, the famous mark MOTOWN for musical entertainment and musical recordings. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 4:01 pm
And that's got to put that record on a list of the best sound recordings ever made. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 9:48 pm
In what could have been a last-second shakedown effort, the RIAA has seen fit to ignore a judge's order preventing the use of names determined through the discovery phase of Motown Record Company vs. [read post]
15 Jun 2008, 12:00 pm
Blood-splattered videos for R&B singer-songwriter Ashanti's single "The Way That I Love You" sparked a protest by demonstrators in Los Angeles, prompting the artist and Universal Records to remove the clips from the Internet. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 8:23 am
It is the essence of bittersweetness, the quality that empowered Motown's most soulful recordings, a ballad that physically moves rather than gathering in a maudlin puddle of self-pity, its terrible sadness stirring into a kind of majestic defiance, utterly bereft and yet still reaching out for the silver-lining of hope.Ruffin died yesterday at the age of 78. [read post]
2 Apr 2022, 1:38 am by Steve Lubet
I think it is also remarkable for having charted in at least four different genres: Motown, hard rock, pop, and country (sort of, by Reba McIntyre). [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 9:37 am by Jonathan Bailey
Tune in every Wednesday evening at 5 PM ET for the live recording of the Copyright 2.0 Show or wait and get the edited version Friday right here on Plagiarism Today. [read post]