Legal action against the police would be tossed out of court quickly. If the intellectual property is not being used in commerce, there is not a whole lot that the owners of the trademark can do about people using the trademark.Īnd, aside from the happy pilfering of society via civil asset forfeiture, not to mention police unions that aggrandize the danger of the average cop in order to continue siphoning tax money to buy better weaponry toys, policing is just a racist enterprise, not a commercial one. This means that the intellectual property is being used in commerce. A trademark, simply put, is a mark that is used in trade. The key problem with enforcing the use of the trademark with police officers, though, is found in the word trademark itself. However, while many fans would love for Marvel to tell the cops that they cannot use the trademarked skull logo of the Punisher, Marvel is likely stuck without a whole lot of legal recourse for achieving a ban like that. These imbeciles seem to take great pleasure in proving the point of the current movement for whatever reason.īut as to any legal action Marvel could take against them, as this post points out, there’s likely very little that can be done specifically with the police. So, first thing first: the fact that officers of the law are taking on the logo of a vigilante that operates brutally and specifically outside the law should tell you everything you need to know about the officers who wear those masks. Yet, somehow, his iconic skull logo has been co-opted by some police officers who use the symbol to show their support for “Blue Lives Matter.” Now, certain comic creators are urging Disney to take legal action against police forces who have used the logo without permission. The Punisher is one of the most brutal, violent characters in comics. You tend to see it in articles like this, where members of the public and/or other comic creators beg Disney or Marvel to sue police who wear the logo while they’re out proving the point of the protesters. With all of the above, perhaps it was understandable when people saw a whole bunch of cops in the news for all the wrong reasons adorned in face masks imprinted with the logo for The Punisher that those same people wondered aloud why Marvel wasn’t suing the police over it. Add to this that Marvel is now a part of Disney, a company nearly as famous for its forays into shaping copyright law as it is for anything else. Or refusing to allow copyrights for some of Marvel’s most famous characters to revert back to the folks who actually created them through termination rights. Such as when it used copyright to crush the creator of Ghost Rider. Some of the examples of its protectionist actions are, ironically, cartoonish. Regular readers here will certainly know that movie-sequel maker and occasional comic book producer Marvel is quite notorious for protecting its intellectual property in a rather heavy-handed way. Thu, Jun 11th 2020 07:31pm - Timothy Geigner

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