One Museum of Tolerance, which is a copyrighted name, already exists, in Los Angeles.
Turnage said he was consulting lawyers about possibly suing Norsigian for using a copyrighted name for commercial purposes.
Welcome to the joyously preposterous world of Penny Dreadful, a show that delights in dropping well-known, out-of-copyright names from the the gothic A-list almost as much as star Josh Hartnett's breeches.
"She was, like, 'I told Dad we should copyright my name!
"I didn't know you could copyright a name," he said.
She focuses her practice on domestic and international trademark, copyright, domain name, Internet, advertising and unfair competition law.
Case in point: Wolkoff tried (but failed) to copyright the name "5Pointz" to use on the forthcoming development.
Between Beyonce's Twitter record-breaking pregnancy announcement at the 2011 VMAs to those lurid prosthetic baby bump rumors, a motion to copyright the name "Blue Ivy" and instantly awwwed-after accessories (tiny gold Marc Jacobs flats y'all!), hip-hop's royal child has already made quite a splash in her first year of living.
But you can protect yourself and your online business but setting it up correctly by checking you are not breach anyone else's copyright idea, name, terms, policies.
For example, many celebrities will copyright their names, such as the recent lawsuit regarding the battle between Spike TV and Spike Lee on the use of the name "Spike".
