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by tdhoot 595 days ago
I wouldn't be so sure. Jack Daniels sued (and won) against a maker of dog toys that looked like Jack Daniels but were named "Bad Spaniels". Turns out trademark law actually is complex.

https://www.today.com/food/news/jack-daniels-dog-toy-supreme...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Daniel%27s_Properties,_In...

Jack Daniels won because the maker of the dog toys were selling them, and wanted a trademark themselves.

Here we're talking about activists making non-commercial parody usage; the EFF's letter already mentions the Lanham Act, and let us add to that the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_Dilution_Revision_Ac...) which adds an express fair-use defense for noncommercial use.