The Chicago Tribune has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit to stop the Fox News Channel from using the name Red Eye for its late-night round table show. For those of you outside of Chicago, RedEye is a weekday offering from the Tribune aimed at readers in their 20s and 30s. The Tribune has also requested unspecified damages. You may be wondering to yourself, did the Tribune sue the film Red Eye, too? No, they didn't, but the Tribune isn't just delivering the karmic comeuppance to Fox for their own "fair and balanced" lawsuit. There's a reason why the Tribune has gone all litigious.Because Red Eye, which features blogger Greg Gutfeld as its host, covers current events, politics and pop culture in a colloquial manner - much as the Tribune's tabloid offering does - the assumption might be made that the two are collaborating. I'm not sure who would make that assumption, but apparently, someone would. So, there you go, another day in the life of intellectual property law.
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2-18-2007 @ 6:09PM
Ben Beauvais said...
"the assumption might be made that the two are collaborating"
When I heard this, I thought this same thing.
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2-18-2007 @ 9:26PM
dub6 said...
Yeah, yeah, Red Eye whatever. WTF is Neil Hamburger doing on Fox News?
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2-18-2007 @ 11:44PM
Tucker said...
Ok, google "trademark law." Then take a few minutes to google the iPhone Apple/Cisco fiasco. Believe it or not, names actually mean something these days.
*disclaimer* I work for a Trib property, but to be honest, if anything that makes me more biased *against* the bastards.
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