"The MPA has worked for decades to earn the public's trust in its rating system," Naresh Kilaru, a lawyer for the MPA, said in an Oct. 28 letter to Meta. "Any dissatisfaction with Meta's automated classification will inevitably cause the public to question the integrity of the MPA's rating system," Kilaru added in the letter, which was shared with NBC News on Wednesday.
"The MPA 's ratings program is a rigorous, human-driven process where every film is carefully assigned an individualized rating and content descriptors. Whatever mechanism Meta uses to moderate content cannot responsibly be compared to that comprehensive process. The MPA's program rates roughly 500 films a year; millions and potentially billions of images and videos are posted to Instagram each day," it said, asking for the social media giant to implement remedial measures.
Ken Biberaj got a surprising call from his lawyer earlier this year, six months after he filed a trademark application for the name of his policy-focused interview podcast, Coffee With Ken. The US Patent and Trademark Office had given its preliminary approval, but now there was a problem: A challenge had been filed, the lawyer said. The objecting party turned out to be Mattel, the maker of Barbie. "Wait, because of the Ken doll? " Biberaj recalls saying.
The lawsuit adds that it is in clear contravention of the general principle of good faith, and of the rules on fair competition and commercial ethics as there is a clear interest in commercial exploitation on the part of the defendant to take advantage of the fame of our client by obtaining a trademark registration that evidently seeks to be related to Pedro Pascal for profit, and on the basis of distracting consumers toward an erroneous commercial origin.
"Yesterday, Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno's petition to cancel its 'JavaScript' trademark," Deno Land CEO Dahl said. "But instead of addressing the real issue-that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple independent implementations-Oracle is trying to stall the process and sidestep accountability."
