{"id":227,"date":"2012-03-06T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2020-07-28T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T16:07:01","slug":"2012-03-06-harley-davidson-given-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/2012-03-06-harley-davidson-given-the-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Harley-Davidson Given the Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9626\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/harley-davidson-rEPAjhzt7TY-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9626\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/harley-davidson-rEPAjhzt7TY-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/harley-davidson-rEPAjhzt7TY-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/harley-davidson-rEPAjhzt7TY-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/harley-davidson-rEPAjhzt7TY-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/harley-davidson-rEPAjhzt7TY-unsplash-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motorcycle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The motorcycle company Harley-Davidson has settled a suit with the estate of Marlon Brando over the unlicensed use of the iconic actor&#8217;s name. \u00a0Apparently, Harley-Davidson produced and sold a boot called the &#8220;Brando&#8221; which resembled the footwear worn by the actor in the 1953 film <em>The Wild One<\/em>. \u00a0The details of the settlement are not public. \u00a0What came over the Harley-Davidson company to think selling clothing called &#8220;Brando&#8221; would be a good idea? \u00a0They license their own name for $43.2 million a year &#8212; surely they must know how copyright works. \u00a0Perhaps they thought they could fly a little closer to the sun this time, though this writer asks: is nothing sacred?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brando estate, Harley settle boot-name scuffle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/03\/06\/harley-brando-idUSL2E8E65YI20120306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more at Reuters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The motorcycle company Harley-Davidson has settled a suit with the estate of Marlon Brando over the unlicensed use of the iconic actor&#8217;s name. \u00a0Apparently, Harley-Davidson produced and sold a boot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[185,179,146,182,181,180,147,186,178,184,183],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-settlements","tag-boots","tag-brando","tag-copyright-2","tag-davidson","tag-harley","tag-harley-davidson","tag-infringement","tag-license","tag-marlon-brando","tag-the-wild-one","tag-wolverine-worldwide"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9727,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/9727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}