IP Update

Protecting Artists' Work by Using the Lanham Act

January 22, 2008

Brett Heavner in Finnegan's Trademark and Copyright Practice Group, discuss how publishers have been more active in policing artists' and authors' works by taking out offensive and potentially reactionary material before the work is published.

Many artists are now asking what they can do to legally protect the integrity and meaning of their works. Heavner reviews how the Lanham Act protects artists and discusses two cases, Gilliam v. American Broadcast Co., and Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp, that are particularly instructive on the scope of protection that Section 43(a) provides against the editing of artists' works without their authorization.

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