Case Refreshes The Parts Other Copyright Lawyers Can't Reach

On Sunday, the Sunday Business Post reported that the Irish Gaelic companionship Sonarstate is contemplating suing Heineken as well as its advertising agency, McCann Erickson, for copyright infringement. Sonarstate claims that the Speakerhead graphic symbol used inwards Heineken’s “Where’s your caput at?” crusade infringed its copyright inwards the Speakerboy graphic symbol that Sonarstate used inwards its marketing crusade which involved Eircell as well as Sony Music. It is idea that Sonarstate was planning to purpose the Speakerboy graphic symbol inwards its adjacent circular of advertising.

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Past Heineken advertisements of banking concern complaint here, here as well as here