The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has again successfully fended off an attempt by an advertiser to prevent publication of an adverse adjudication by means of an injunction. The ASA last month upheld a complaint against a TV commercial for Debt Free Direct (“the claimant”) whom it then notified in the usual way that it proposed … Read more
An application by Holly Johnson, the former front man of controversial 1980’s popsters Frankie Goes To Hollywood, to register FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD as a trade mark has been rejected following opposition by the band’s other former members. The Facts In April 2004 Mr Johnson applied to register FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD in respect of … Read more
This Court of Appeal case concerned the rights in performances by Jimi Hendrix contained on live recordings made in the late 60s in the UK, Sweden and the US. The judges in the initial trial and in an earlier related trial found that Hendrix’s estate, Experience Hendrix, could enforce rights in the performances so as … Read more
The claimant (Andrew Knight) in this passing off action created a series of books, television pilots and television programme proposals relating to the investigation of myths by reference to the term “mythbusters”. He claimed that by virtue of these activities he had established goodwill in the term “mythbusters” when used in relation to books and … Read more
