Well that didn’t last long. Earlier this year the O.C. Register announced a new Web T.V. project called “The Juice.” I thought that was a copyright infringement, but the Register’s lawyers didn’t think so as their site had to do with entertainment while ours is about politics. Now it is a moot point as they have announced that their bogus “Juice” is going on hiatus.
How many of the Register’s new projects have failed this year alone? They appear to be flailing away madly with no rhyme or reason.
Now there is only one “Juice” left in town – the Orange Juice blog!
The Register had a column named Juice long before there WERE any blogs, by Marty Smith and Kathryn Cave. I miss it.
There is a group out of Orange that has put their political report to their members in a newsletter format called the Orange Juice for over 20 years that I know of. The name might be a difficult one to copyright except for a very narrowly defined application.
Truth though – there will always only be one Orange Juice Blog. Due in no small part to Art’s infamous ability to prod comments from the blogsphere with controversy. Kudo’s Mr. Pedroza!
It never was copyright infringement. They would have to copy something from this blog (more than for fair use) for it to be copyright infringement.
You can’t copyright a name.
The issue would have been more like trademark infringement. It doesn’t have to be a registered trademark for that. For trademark infringement issues, it is important that the trademark holder actually pursues violations. Otherwise, the trademark gets diluted and others may be able to use it freely.
Joe,
Oops. You are right!
We did have our lawyer pursue the trademark issue but it would have cost a lot to pursue this further. The demise of the fake “Juice” took care of that.
I did file DBAs on all variants of the “Orange Juice.”