Netflix may have made Joe Exotic a household name, but Hollywood Weekly magazine says it made him “The Tiger King.”
The magazine sued Netflix for infringing its unregistered trademark rights for “Tiger King”—a moniker it claims it coined in four articles published between 2013 and 2018.
The lawsuit raises questions about what a publication has to do to brand and protect a series of articles. The publication is seeking damages and an injunction against one of the streaming giant’s most successful productions ever: “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”
Netflix will have trouble, at least early in the suit, escaping ...
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