Legal Opinion
Duffey v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 27, 2014No. 13 Civ. 1354(JPO)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
J. PAUL OETKEN, District Judge:
This is a case about the sale of merchandise relating to the movie Office Space, a 1999 cult classic about the soul-crushing experience of working under incompetent management. The merchandise at issue is the Office Space “Box of Flair,” a product that was sold to consumers beginning in 2007. “Flair” refers to buttons that waiters in the film must wear as a mode of corporate-mandated self-expression. The front of the Box of Flair includes an image of a waiter in the film who wholeheartedly embraces these buttons as a means to express himself.…
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