Legal Opinion
New Kids on the Block v. News America Publishing, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 24, 1992No. Nos. 90-56219, 90-56258PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.
The individual plaintiffs perform professionally as The New Kids on the Block, reputedly one of today’s hottest musical acts. This case requires us to weigh their rights in that name against the rights of others to use it in identifying the New Kids as the subjects of public opinion polls.
Background
No longer are entertainers limited to their craft in marketing themselves to the public. This is the age of the multi-media publicity blitzkrieg: Trading on their popularity, many entertainers hawk posters, T-shirts, badges, coffee mugs and the like— handsomely supplementing…
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- In Re SnyderSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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