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Should copyright or trademark protection prohibit Spam the name of Hormel's canned meat produced since 1937 being used by others especially in such a negative way associating it with unwanted emails? |
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It was once an issue (for enforcing Hormel's trademarks) but has never been ruled a trademark infringement, because there is no likelihood of confusion that Hormel is responsible for generating unsolicited commercial emails.
So, in short: trademark and copyright should NOT prevent anyone from using it in association with OTHER types of goods and services.
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