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Cases of Note-Lanham Act and Jurisdiction Bruce Strauch the Citadel, Strauchb@Citadel.Edu Against the Grain Volume 22 | Issue 4 Article 21 September 2010 Cases of Note-Lanham Act and Jurisdiction Bruce Strauch The Citadel, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Strauch, Bruce (2010) "Cases of Note-Lanham Act and Jurisdiction," Against the Grain: Vol. 22: Iss. 4, Article 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.5609 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact [email protected] for additional information. LEGAL ISSUES Section Editors: Bruce Strauch (The Citadel) <[email protected]> Bryan M. Carson, J.D., M.I.L.S. (Western Kentucky University) <[email protected]> Jack Montgomery (Western Kentucky University) <[email protected]> Cases of Note — Lanham Act and Jurisdiction “Wish they all could be California … torts.” Column Editor: Bruce Strauch (The Citadel) <[email protected]> Mike Love v. Associated Newspapers, Ltd., Love, founding band member, but not a Wilson, First there were some shenanigans, the sig- Brian Wilson et al, United States Court of won the right to use The Beach Boys trademark nificance of which will appear later if you can Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2010 U.S. App. in concerts and continued to tour as a nostalgia stand to keep reading. LEXIS 13935 (2010). band for … well … those of a certain age. And, Love sued in California but said he was a Those of us of a certain age of course know note that Love’s right to the mark is only in live resident of Nevada. He later amended to say he Brian Wilson. He was the sensitive member of performances. had a residence in California, which was simply the Wilson family who came home from com- The British newspaper the Mail on Sunday not true. Or a lie as we once called it in a more munity college and told his brothers: “Hey, guys, handed out 2.6 million CDs of Wilson singing judgmental age. Which got him “admonished.” this rock ‘n roll thing’s not so hard. I’ve written old Beach Boys songs solo along with the new Which is to say being given a stern talking-to a song. It’s about surfing.” songs from “Smile.” The cover had Brian Wil- from the bench. And that of course was “Surfer Girl,” the son but also three small photos of the old band Knowing they had a problem with the CD brothers became the Beach Boys, and the rest is and was titled “Good Vibrations,” which rings not penetrating the U.S. market, Love’s lawyer rock history. Indeed, an emblematic history of the an immediate bell with all you graying Boomers got a “close associate” to claim he had bought times. Including their first performance behindIke who also remember where you were when the one on eBay and was confused, thinking it was and Tina Turner at the — wait for it — Ritchie Big Bopper’s plane went down and can name all an official Beach Boys product. This was also Valens Memorial Dance, New Year’s Eve, 1961! the hits of Jan & Dean. false, and when the truth came to light, Love’s And of course there had to be drugs. Yes, you know it. The 1966 psychedelic pop lawyer had sanctions slapped on him. Which is Brian fried his brain and had a nervous song that was produced in a layered musical col- to say paying over the cost of dredging up the breakdown, which he blamed on depression lage inspiring the Beatles “Strawberry Fields,” truth by Wilson’s team of legal beagles. and “A Day in the Life,” and made the Rock and brought on by hearing the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper” And after all these deceits, Love’s case got Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock album, and feeling he wasn’t worthy to be on the booted for lack of jurisdiction. Leading to the And Roll. Ironically, Mike Love wrote the lyr- same planet with them. question on appeal, can Love use American ics, but when Wilson put it on “Smile,” he used And it was the age of deprogramming cult vic- claims for relief for conduct that happened in the lyrics by an earlier writer. Which saved our tims and other weird therapy. Wilson fell under Britain? Or as the Ninth Circuit so wittily put lawsuit from being even more complicated. the power of a Svengali-style psychologist who it, “Love wishes they could all be California isolated him in Hawaii, subjected him to “extreme BigTime.tv, the producer of the CD, ignored torts.” Chortle. counseling,” and later lost his license for it. a California attorney’s advice to not use images of other Beach Boys without their permission. If you’re not over sixty, you probably don’t But of course nothing would match brother get it. Dennis who in 1968 actually befriended Charles I mean what the heck? They get away with Manson and his harem and introduced them to it in China don’t they? So What’s this Jurisdiction Thingy? Doris Day’s son Terry Melcher, the record Mind you, the CD only went out with Jurisdiction is the authority given a court over producer famous for the Byrds. Dennis couldn’t the newspaper in the UK and Ireland. While geographic area, subject matter, and persons. get the Manson clan out of 425 copies of the paper What is called “long-arm jurisdiction” is pro- his house and finally had reached the US (18 in vided by statute for persons outside the state and to move himself and hide. California), none con- is subject to due process fairness requirements. And a terrified Terry fled tained the CD. The defendant must have some “minimum con- his home on Cielo Drive, Nonetheless, Mike tacts” with the state. You can’t use California which was in turn rented to Love did not care for this courts to sue someone in Michigan (or Hong — yes, Roman Polanski one bit. He saw a Wilson Kong) for something nasty he did to you in and Sharon Tate. tour in direct competition Michigan when he has no business or anything And you’re asking, with his gig. So he got busy else in California. Yahoo! V. La Ligue Contre if Terry had produced and sued Brian Wilson, le Racisme, 433 F.3d 1199, 1205 (9th Cir. 2006); Charles’ songs, would the newspaper, BigTime.tv Cal. Code Civ. Pro. § 410.10. Charles have merely gone on to become one that produced the CD, and all manner of entities The “purposeful direction” or “effects” test more rich, deranged heavy metal rocker like associated with Sanctuary Records, which requires (1) defendant did an intentional act; (2) Black Sabbath, Metallica, Megadeath et al. produced “Smile.” act was aimed at the forum state; (3) and defen- instead of a notorious psycho-killer? He used the Lanham Act trademark dilution, dant knew the act was likely to cause harm to Let’s Get to Our Lawsuit but loaded up the suit with California’s right of plaintiff in the forum state. Id. At 1206. But enough pop culture. By 2004, Brian privacy and right of publicity and conspiracy, Love said the CD was aimed at California Wilson had himself back compos mentis, wrote of all things. since that’s where his musical career is based a solo album “Smile,” and began a tour with a Just like that traffic cop who feels DUI is even if he did fib about having a house there. backup band. He had previously broken with the not sufficient and also charges you with open Websites have broadened this considerably since Beach Boys and all had sued each other. Mike container. continued on page 55 54 Against the Grain / September 2010 <http://www.against-the-grain.com> live performances. Wilson had not performed “misleading and deceptive declaration.” Plus the Cases of Note in the US. phony eBay affidavit “unreasonably and vexa- from page 54 But incredibly, Love claimed his ticket sales tiously … lengthened or multiplied” the work of dropped after the CD came out. The Ninth the defendants’ attorneys and the court. they invade everywhere. See Brayton Purcell, Circuit called associating the issue of a CD in In a last-ditch, whining defense, Love said he LLP v. Recordon & Recordon, 606 F.3d 1124, Britain with a drop in sales of live performances did it all on the advice of counsel and shouldn’t 2010, WL 2135302 at *4 (9th Cir. 2010). “too great of a stretch.” Which makes you be punished for it. But the court said if that No one ever thinks about this when they set wonder how the district court judge held onto were a defense, attorney’s fees would never be out on their little careers as bloggers. his temper during that admonishment. awarded. But there was no Website in our case, and Well as it turns out, he awarded attorney’s And he sort of has a point. Maybe they anyhow, Love is a citizen of Nevada. fees to the defendants with respect to all claims should just stick the lawyer with the total bill in form of sanctions and save Love having to sue For the Lanham Act to apply in Britain, finding the claims “bordered on frivolous and him separately. the alleged violations must have an effect on were not objectively reasonable” and that they American foreign commerce. See Star-Kist “contributed to the bloat” of a “vastly overpled And you avid readers have come to the con- Foods, Inc.
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