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Trademark claims against virtual world strip club denied on 1st Amendment grounds

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

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USA January 20 2009

A court has ruled that incorporating into a video game a virtual strip club with a similar look and feel to the real thing has artistic relevance and that similarities between the real and virtual strip clubs were not explicitly misleading.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pillsburylaw.com/james.gatto">James G. Gatto</a> and&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.pillsburylaw.com/ben.esplin">D. Benjamin Esplin </a>
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