{"id":4526,"date":"2003-08-12T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2003-08-12T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T22:10:10","slug":"unbalanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/12\/unbalanced.html","title":{"rendered":"Unbalanced"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’m not usually a big fan of Al Franken, all Fox News’ lawsuit against him — suing him for the title of his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right<\/i>, is just plain stupid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fox News registered “Fair & Balanced” as a trademark in 1995, the suit says.<\/p>\n

Which is ludicrous to have been able to do so to begin with (leaving aside the content on Fox News, it seems like far too generic a phrase to trademark — ethically, if not legally).<\/p>\n

Franken’s “intent is clear – to exploit Fox News’ trademark, confuse the public as to the origins of the book and, accordingly, boost sales of the book,” the suit said.<\/p>\n

Riiiight. Al wants people who watch Fox News to think that this is a Fox News book, and therefore buy it, because Fox News readers are not only big fans of Al Franken, but all of them would be interested in a book with that title.<\/p>\n

Now — exploiting the trademark? That’s called parody<\/i>, guys. And it was, last time I checked, fair use.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what Fox News (or their lawyers) thought something like this suit would accomplish — but what it will accomplish is plenty of free publicity for Franken’s latest tome.<\/p>\n

(via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’m not usually a big fan of Al Franken, all Fox News’ lawsuit against him — suing him for the title of his new book, Lies and the Lying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/unblogged-bits-wed-23-feb-11-1630.html","url_meta":{"origin":4526,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 23-Feb-11 1630)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Feb-11 4:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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