Re: Have Service Marks Gone too far?

On 8/3/99, Nick Zales <zales[_at_]execpc.com> wrote:
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> Can you register your name as a service mark? Apparently you can.

You've been able to for awhle; this is nothing new. Billy Joel, for example, has a trademark and service mark, as do many other artists.

And why not? If someone is selling knockoff Billy Joel tshirts in the parking lot outside the auditorium where he's playing, and looks for all the world like an "official" vendor, such that consumers believe that the tshirts (and the vendor) are endorsed by Mr. Joel, or that Mr. Joel will receive some portion of the proceeds from the tshirt sales, why shouldn't he be able to bring the Lanham Act crashing down on the perpetrators?

-Ari

Ari Kahan
<akahan[_at_]netcom.com>