Louis Vuitton files cease-and-desist order over trademark parody by Penn students

Louis Vuitton should lighten up after filing a cease-and-desist letter accusing a student group at University of Pennsylvania of violating copyright with a parody of the LV signature pattern in advertising a symposium on fashion and intellectual property law, argues Arthur Bright for the Citizen Media Law Project.

Bright says LV has a lot more to lose in public relations capital than it could possibly gain by such a suit against student. -db

From a commentary for the Citizen Media Law Project,  March 5, 2012, by Arthur Bright

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