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77WABC Radio
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"Really has. He's done an enormous amount to destroy our cities in my view. Law & Order. Elon Musk writes Dershowitz has been accused of antisemitism. Because of his criticism and mockery of George Soros. Mister Soros Jewish, mister Musk is not, but mister must stands falsely accused. Mister Soros is an active participant in politics, and his jewishness shouldn't shield him from criticism. Further no single person has done more damage. To Israel staining in the world, especially among so called progressives than George Soros. His financial support is multiplied the influence of the two major organizations that have done the most to shift the left wing paradigm against Israel. One of them is Human Rights Watch, which was founded by publisher and human rights advocate Robert Bernstein. Who lived from 1923 to 2019. For years, Human Rights Watch critiqued the denial of human rights by all countries based on two criteria. The seriousness of the violations in any particular nation, the inability of the nation's citizens to protest and remedies such violations. But in 1993, Kenneth Roth became executive director and turned it into an organization that specialized in demonizing Israel. A Roth is just. Just like Soros is Jewish. By 2009, the Israel bashing had become so severe that Bernstein wrote as the founder of Human Rights Watch active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus. I must do something that I never anticipated. I must publicly join the group's critics. So this guy founds Human Rights Watch. He's an old man at this point, and he starts trashing it, saying it's been turned into a monster. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies. Advocate basic freedoms and support the centers. But recently it's been issuing reports on the Israeli Arab conflict. They're helping those who wish to turn his rondo pariah state. That's what he wrote about his own group. Mister Ross is deployed human rights as a weapon against Israel's organizations one sided reports were used to justify select a condemnation of Israel by the UN and its divisions. They were circulated on university campuses and around the world. And despite their obvious and anti Israel by supporters pointed to mister Ross, Jewish heritage. To lend credibility to his anti Israel accusations. I call these people self hating Jews as you well know. And you haven't been all ethnicities all walks of life. Here's an organization created by the goodwill of the free world to fight violations of human rights. Which has become a tool in the hands of dictatorial regimes to fight against democracies. Observed natan sharansky, the former Soviet dissident. An Israeli Knesset member 2009. It's time to call a spade a spade. He said, the real activity of this organization today is a far cry from what it was set up 30 years ago to do. Throw light in dark places where there's really no other way to find out what's happening regarding human rights. In 2010, mister Soros said he planned to give $100 million the largest gift by far that Human Rights Watch has ever received The New York Times reported. The paper quoted mister Soros quote every Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock. A group at Human Rights Watch got together and discussed issues with the managers, he said, I was an active participant in that group, and the human rights remains an important element of my foundation's current activities. The other organization is J street. Despite its claim to be a progressive pro Israel and pro Palestinian organization, J street has done much to turn most progressives in some liberal Democrats, including members of Congress, academics, and media figures. Against Israel last year, harassing Israeli newspaper, reported that mister Soros contributed $1 million to J street's super PAC. Quote 20 times larger than any previous donation, J street action fund received. I'm not the only Jewish American to criticize mister Soros writes. Alan Dershowitz, in a January article by the Jewish news service Farley Weiss. A former president of the National Council of young Israel wrote, sources defenders try to shut down criticism at the billionaire by claiming that anti semitic because soars himself as Jewish, but no one is financed more destructive attacks on Israel and the American Jewish community than Soros. Mister Soros also had his headed pernicious influence on American domestic issues. Such as funning left this candidate for district attorney, who politicized law enforcement, and unlike mister Musk, says Dershowitz, I haven't compared mister source to magneto. A marvel super villain who liked mister Soros survived the Holocaust. They wouldn't make that comparison because I never heard of magneto. By the way, neither had I. But I agree with mister Musk. The mister Soros acts contribute to fraying the fabric of civilization unquote, and mister Musk has shown no hostility toward Israel or the Jewish people. Some right wing anti semites he said of focused on mister Soros and promoting anti semitic conspiracy theories about the Jews controlling the world. Critics of mister surah should join supporters and condemning. Such misuse of Jewish heritage. But this misuse shouldn't deter legitimate criticism of the malign influence mister Soros has on the world irrespective of his being Jewish. He has had a horrific influence on this country as Soros. And why did I bother going through all this with you America? Because mister Soros is rooting for Joe Biden for president, mister Soros is a big fund of the Democrat party. Mister Soros has an enormous influence which he's purchased with his multi-billions of dollars. On the left. Bernie Sanders is the kind of Jew that George Soros. I would even argue Chuck Schumer is. But George Soros. Hates America, hates his real, is where tens of
The Jim Ross Report
"mister ross" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"I look forward to it. It's just in my blood Conrad. I enjoy so much traveling to wrestling events like these. And we're going to have a lot of fun. I enjoy meeting people. I just find it more so now than I ever have. So rewarding that, you know, like I said this before, it's cool when you meet parents. A dad, and his dad, they watched the wrestling together, and they watched some of my work, and then their kid now has been watching some of my work. So it's three generations. And I just think that's cool as hell and because the dad's always got a store at JR ism. I've grown to find out Conrad and these appearances that there's a lot of JR isms that are repeated. I don't know how good idea that is, but nonetheless, I appreciate it. So we're going to be making some more appearances. Conrad, if somebody is listening to the show and they were interested in an appearance for their business or so forth, how they do that to lead the information here. That's a great question, Jim. Just go to advertise with JR dot com, fill that format, let us know that you're looking for a personal appearance from GM and we will make sure it gets to the appropriate hands, which of course is the very talented mister balloon. Yes, sir, Barry bloom. The agent of the stars. Man, he's been in the news a little bit lately, but we don't talk about current stuff, but we do look forward to seeing you. This Friday night for rampage and don't forget before you tune into rampage, you'll pick up your all in tickets. I want to encourage everybody. If you're on the fence about whether or not you want to be a part of that show, it's one you don't want to miss. I mean, this is going to be for that area what SummerSlam 92 was. But for this company, this could be like their WrestleMania three, Jim. Don't you? Yeah, I do. Great expectations. I hope these kids are seeing it. If you're watching on YouTube, some of these guys and gals that are on this graphic, out they understand what opportunity awaits, what's there for us to achieve and earn as a team. And it's an amazing accomplishment for I was reluctant to get to work to go to work for a startup. I had no regrets. And I would never have you could have won a lot of money for me. By saying, well, you know, in three years in change, you guys will be doing Wembley. I looked at you like you were insane. Right. Sure enough, it's going to happen. And there's going to be a lot of people there. So I can't wait to travel over myself and be around all those great fans. The bar talk at these events where the fans, from England, and surrounding area, there's not going to be from England, but a lot of places. It's pretty phenomenal, Connie. They have so much fun. They're so glad you're there. You're welcome. It's just terrific. It makes you feel blessed to be in a pro wrestling business. And those of us that are, should feel that way every day. Well, said, mister Ross, so thankful we got to spend time watching Monday Night Raw from 1998. What a big show it was, one of the highest rated shows in history at that point, and it's a great story. It started with a great story. It finished with a great story. We'll be back next week talking about how your story started.
The Jim Ross Report
"mister ross" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"JR I'll be your host to this time, mister cassio, and I'm joined by the one and only the living ledge in the man in the black hat, mister JR, Jim Ross, how are you doing, sir? I think I'm changing my name to kiss your kid too. Boy, please. I need all the help to get it over that. Johnny Walker did well, the wrestling two, right? Yeah. It might be a trend. Hell, I don't know. Might be 20 23. We'll take a second casio. Mister Ross Sykes for joining me again last month. JR, please. JR? Yes, sir. This time, we're going from the Montreal screwjob, which like we announced last time, regardless of the finish was a hell of a match. This time, they're putting us with the one and only infamous WrestleMania 20 match between Goldberg and Brock Lesnar. Yeah, I prefer to remember WrestleMania 20 is a great night for Benoit Guerrero. It was great. You had two title matches after this one, thankfully, that saved mania 20. But they stuck us with this one for a good one. Here's the thing about this. This match impacted was impacted more by social media. Than any match I could remember until that point. It may be something after that that, you know, I forgot or you didn't bring it up or whatever. But the issue is is that the crowd was ready to kill those guys because they were leaving them. Yeah, you know, Goldberg's deal was up. He was out of there. Brock was just being Brock. They don't understand how to manage that high strung athlete at that time Vince didn't. Because he never was around too many athletes and since that, I'm not saying the boys that he hired weren't good athletes. I'm just saying he never took it on himself to study the true athlete. And Brock Lesnar was a true athlete. He's not hate brother and Holly, hey dude, you know, all the shit to do. He wasn't. So when you see a guy like that, getting frayed on the edges. IE burning out. You can take them out of the fire. And you do that by paying attention to communicating with your talents. And Brock was almost uncommunicative. He was angry as math the world. He wanted to get out. He was burned out. So the time those guys made their interest, so we're going to show everybody here the moment. The jury had already convicted those guys. They didn't have a trial. Trial was over. Trial was over when they were first made the scene. And the only thing I really say the day was the fact that Austin was a referee. Yes. So the fans got to see Steve and they had not been seeing Steve that much up until that point because of the injuries.
The Jim Ross Report
"mister ross" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"I mean, it's idiot proof. It is. So, and it helps you get healthier and I just think it's just a no brainer. This is a great product, folks. You're going to get a year's supply for free. That's right. That's a hell of a deal. I don't care what you're buying. No doubt. Give us a give it a shot. A lot of guys are using it. I know a lot of the wrestlers use it because it's a quick startup. It's a quick way to get your motor started in the morning with that one scoop. One scoop does everything. Good stuff. All right, next up, we have James L KAR, I believe the match is over, so we're gonna go full screen here. James L cry, what do you got for Jim Ross and Mike chioda? Well, Pauly, Odom, thanks for giving me on Kyoto. Good to see you, good man. Good to see you, James. Mister Ross, I kind of have a just a real quick question about you said that most of the finish or the post match was kind of ad lib considering the reaction to Hogan, but the fact that they took that much amount of time, post match. I mean, I know you're not going to give The Rock or Hogan any flag, but where some people kind of like, hey y'all are milking this a little bit and were they trying to call them back to the locker room to get the show going? No. You know what? Screw up art. It was extemporaneous. And nobody gave a shit if you're losing some of your time. 'cause you can't follow it anyway. We might have been doing some of the talents that followed in the succeeding matches a favor. By eliminating some of the time that they would have had because they're still not going to follow it. If they got ten minutes of their match, our 20 or 5. You're not going to follow it. So no, that was a moment that you allowed to grow and to the audience to sample. It was just amazing. And I think that was no, nobody said anything. You can't scrip a moment like that, but I said, we're going to get a hurry. You know, hunter and Jericho need more time. Right. They don't need more. Hey, look. They're good workers. That'd be great workers. Probably are both those two guys. They got to take that pan this delta. And they knew that they were going on in the test spot. So, you know, the fact that you're protecting the title is kind of what it was. It tradition so that was what went on last and that was a reason for it, but nobody said a word, man. You got to let these moments grow and just let them happen. And because how many exits in pro wrestling in any of our lifetimes can any of us remember an exit taking that long? And being that significant. Right. It's hard to I can't think of any. And I've been doing this a long time. So you let the moment grow, let it happen. And that's what we did. Yeah, when they went, I think we had 25 to 30 minutes with entrances and everything. We knew it was going to go about 40 to 45 minutes every day everything with the aftermath and the entrance is to the match and to the aftermath. And when my best thing, one of my best, it's just a little pet peeve. But look how Hogan was still selling the ribs coming up the ramp. Just registering it. He's looking for sympathy. But again, most guys don't even register what they've been hit with 5 minutes ago. And it got me like, you know, it just gets to see the old school with the shove off to push off the flex and everything else. It was just, it was just, it's unforgettable. I wonder how many young guys will watch this someday, some progressives of today's generation. Right. And actually learn from or say, God, damn, that was slow. They didn't leave their feet. I didn't see one hurricane Rana. Right. How the hell do we have time? Or a hurricane Rana? By the way, we got to have a hurricanrana or October seated. Because it's important to get the Japanese and the Spanish culture within the television shows. Right. Because she's some bitch who don't know any holes. I don't believe all you. I just laid a body part. Act like you know about wrestling and not about just acrobatics. There was no acrobatics in that match. And it became one of the most well-known as we're talking about today. One of the most well-known and memorable matches of all time. It's not cirque du Soleil, its pro wrestling. So there you go. I like it, Jim. Convince you to call it. He's the one to call it entertainment for a while, right? JR, just entertainment, right? Oh, yeah. You kind of got away from the professional wrestling a little bit. Oh, you didn't like that. He thought that was a negative. Yeah, negative, right? Right. It just made him rich. That's all I know. To the point. Don't let the facts and dollars can we have a good story. Yes, sir. Anthony piers, you're on next with the guys.
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"mister ross" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"You listen and you feel, and you just got to keep going, you know? It wasn't hard. It wasn't drudgery. It just was tough. No referee, Hogan, like a drunk man. But referee Kyoto still selling his car crash. The night out before. Yeah, yeah. Real quick, let's get back to Amy, I think she's working again. Amy are you there? You're good to go now? We will see. I didn't know what happened last time. All good. It just froze on you, but you're good now. All right, well, gentlemen, I wanted to ask you all where this match ranks for you all. So my for you revving at WrestleMania is where does this match write for you? And mister Ross, where does this match rank for you in calling a match at WrestleMania? And I hope your health is well, mister Ross. It's good. I'm full of P and V, honey. All right. Be careful around on JR these days. This is obviously a WrestleMania highlight for me because again, the crowd delivered. The crowd became the star of this president. This presentation partnering. But that's what I remember, this is the overwhelming support, and you know, I thought, hey, Mark did the federalists out? Yeah, Patterson laid a lot of this out. Yes, he sure did, you know? He was rock's guy. Yes. Plus, when you're working a territory for 15 years like fat did in San Francisco and you're in the sum of the same markets every single week, you got to learn to tell stories and continue stories and add another chapter. So pat was always rocks guy and very well for a rock because he'd learned a great deal from patters. Yeah, definitely sure that pat Patterson, Michael Hayes had a lot of input here and in and out. Yeah. So I think in my top 5 WrestleMania moments, I have a hard time overshadowing what Brett and stone cold did at WrestleMania 13. We can't shamrock. Right. That was pretty awesome. The double turns are very rare and they're very hard to pull off. And so I'll always kind of put that match may be my favorite. I did like a call and when I got to come back and do a little work with taker and Sean, I think that was at WrestleMania 25. I thought that was a hell of a performance, but both guys I like and respect and known forever. Let's go to the audio here, Josh real quick. He's fired up coming back. The crowd's going
The Jim Ross Report
"mister ross" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"And more. I saw that picture on that bull ramus put on there a while ago about the shrimp. I got everything. There we go. See that in that purdy? It's crazy, dude. So we found a great sponsor. We love working with them. And we're selling it hard, folks on the show because we believe in it. Absolutely. Very good, healthy, eating protein can't beat it. So check it out and I think and it would love to hear from you. How do you how did you lock your shipment? Yes. Not everything tastes. Give us some feedback. Let us what you like. What you don't like. So anyway, that's where we are. I love this company. It's good. And we're so honored to have him as part of our advertising roster. Well, sad, mister Ross, backyard butchers dot com, use that promo code JR. Now we're going to talk about some sad news. Our Mandela Brown has given notice that he's going to be let go when his contract cycle runs out on March 1st, his downside guarantee was 350 grand and maybe that was negotiated during the good times and maybe that's part of the reason we're in cost cutting mode. I'm not sure that's a that number is accurate. Okay. I might be wrong. It's 20 years ago, Connie. Right. 20 years ago, I was trying to think a while ago, what an order from Uber eats yesterday. Right. And I couldn't do it. I had no idea what I ordered. So I went back to the little app. Yeah. They told me what I ordered. There you go. Yeah, I'll get good. Computer shit. I don't know where I was. Anyway, I wander sometimes as you know. Where were we? Well, we're talking about delo making. The deal was making three 50 a year. Now he may have been earning more than that. I'm not going to say that. But I don't recall him being geared. And on the downside, yeah. That's 7 grand a week. I think, isn't it? That's a lot of money, yeah. It's pretty good money. Anyway. And he was never a problem. Always on time, reliable, just a sweetheart of a guy. I liked him because he was a pulmonary college football player. And he knew how to fit into a locker room. He knew when to keep his mouth shut. He didn't want to open it. I just always enjoyed working with the D low. I gave him a shitty idea one time about he did the frog slash. So we had to put on a chest protector. Yep. What should add more impetus That I talk with, including the head honcho, lock the idea. And but it still didn't get him over and I felt bad about that deal. You want all your ideas to work and improve it a lot. You're status of a specific talent. My idea did not help delo, I don't think, unfortunately. At least I managed to admit it. Well, let's talk about something else that we might be a little interested in discuss. Tommy Dreamer is getting a tryout of sorts on the booking committee. Meltzer would say that it's clear the company has no real plans for him as a wrestler. So they're letting him just sit in and observe the process and the hope is, maybe he can learn a new hold here with WWE and making contributor behind the scenes. Yeah. What did you think of Tommy as a player on the committee? I thought he could be a big addition to the committee. He had brought up knowledge. He understood the psychology of the wrestling business. He had a nice eye for talent. At least that's my take on it. God damn Connor, I'm looking at my window here. It's the biggest gray squirrel I've ever seen in my life. It looks like a fucking dachshund. I wish the bull ramus is here right now so he could go out and catch up by hand. I would have a squirrel stew tonight. We'd have to film that. We're catching a score. And what's the over under on a plumber's crack? It's happening right now while he's producing our show. Oh God. Anyway, we got past Delos. He's like, what else were we? We're talking about car handing next. He unfortunately passes away. How did you first hear about the untimely passing of mister Hannah? You know, I might have heard it from the fake. Fake was a very think state on the Internet a lot. God bless him. Did you hear about Kurt? No Howard, what happened? Well, he was found dead last night. Okay. Anything else? Because I didn't want to get into a discussion of reminiscing about Howard's experiences occurred to any. Right. But Howard Johnny on the spot. He had always had these. And normally it leaned on the negative side. The dirt, oh, I like the dirt. So anyhow, he's a classic. So I think our may have told me, because if it was on the Internet within minutes, Howard was aware of it, and we share the info. And he wouldn't share it to everybody. I know he would call me, it didn't call Vince's assistant or talk
The Jim Ross Report
"mister ross" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"Hey, it's Conrad Thompson and you're listening to grilling JR. With the voice of wrestling, mister Jim Ross, Jim, how are you, man? I'm good, Connie. How are you buddy? Man better than I deserve. Excited to be on with you this morning. I saw over the weekend and you posted some really fun family picks. You got a granddaughter going to college. How about that? Yeah, she's going. She got accepted to the Oklahoma university school of nursing. That's awesome. Which is not an easy feat, I'm told. And Rachel had a 3.8 grade average. Wow. Perfect. She's really just a sweetheart of girl. And so Graham Paul is going to write a few more checks. And happy to do so. That's a good career for her. Yeah, absolutely. Being an RN somewhere down the road, so I told her I said, you can work anywhere you wanted to work. Heck yeah. Do you want to go live in Hawaii for a year? I think that I didn't agree with you. Go get a tan. Right. Have a good time. So I'm proud of her. She's a sweetheart girl, and just a really hard worker. She's always had a job. So I appreciate that work ethic. Maybe she gets maybe she comes about naturally. I don't know. There she is. Good job, Dave. She's pretty girl. Man, it's just awesome news. Congrats to you and her and the whole fam and Oklahoma, man. I love it. Keeping it all in the family. That's right. Speaking of the family, we lost a member of our wrestling family since you and I recorded last. Just in total transparency, you not normally record on Monday mornings and we got some sad news on Tuesday morning that Jeff Jarrett's father, mister Jerry jeer at the legendary promoter from Memphis passed away at just 80 years old, lived quite a full life recently was diagnosed with esophagus cancer. It started treatment for that and is heart just couldn't withstand all those treatments and he sadly passed away on Valentine's Day and as folks are listening to this, they had the celebration of life this past Tuesday. On the 21st, they are just north of Nashville and Hendersonville and he was kind of the last great territory promoter. Was he not mister Ross? Yes, sir. He was an interesting character to say the least. I always enjoyed the chat with Jerry. He was a had a great mind for the business. He built an empire there in Tennessee, and surrounding areas. You know, he kind of put a lot on the map and that's always what works for me. To get more law or who I hear is doing pretty goodness is rehab on his stroke that he had. So Jerry was a nice man. And the first time I met Jared Jarrett was in the mid 80s, there's been all kinds of traffic on that on social media where a watch food Jarrett and Lawler down to a Shreveport to watch us do TV. And to begin the orchestrating of a trade, talent exchange, which was, I thought a great idea and we came out good on that. We made the mid south because we got, we got The Rock and roll express. Right. We got the midnight express. How's that? That's a pretty good draft. Yeah. I would say so. So it was good. But Jerry was down there. I remember he wore a some kind of leather coat with a real flashy leather coat with a. Collar that was made like a fur or something. It was very ostentatious. But he was a nice guy to talk to and smart with a business. It wasn't easily bullshit. So I think when you're raised in a territory and raised in arresting family, that bullshit stuff kind of, you know, it's kind of addressed. Right. So, but it's sad to hear. He had a long life, should have been longer. And I always have concerns with the family. I saw jif last week and what town were you last week? I think you're in Laredo, right? Laredo, because I love my fucking glasses there. Uh oh. Of course they can't find. So I'd have my eyeglasses. I have not had my eyeglasses. In almost a week. Wow. Remember that mister magu cartoon series? I do, yeah. That's me. So I got to figure this out somehow or another. They had the curve and I don't get back to Jacksonville for about a week. I'm not quite a week. Almost. So I've got to go to, I got to go back to the goddamn eyeglass place to get some more glasses. This time I'm going to buy cheap glasses. I'm going to buy two or three pair. Simple as that. That's what I got to do. So anyhow. That's the exception in my life, Conrad, but I'm feeling good. That's good. And I'm glad that we got to mention Jerry here. Because he was a pioneer. Yes. And he was very innovative, and the fact that he trusted Lawler to do the booking half a year was smart because it kept Lawler engaged. And it also created a your top baby face getting over and covering his own backside, which was pretty small. So he was a sharp guy. He's a street smart, sure. And I always enjoy chatting with him. I didn't chat with him a lot. It seemed a lot. But he's going
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"mister ross" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"Hey, hey, it's Conrad Thompson, and you are listening to grilling JR. With the voice of wrestling, mister Jim Ross, Jim, how are you, man? I'll put a good cotton red. Go getting over the Super Bowl and taking a show with you and boras. We keep him off camera. He's just too sexy. He is. He is distracting. And he's always trying to navigate a camera screenshot that shows his bulge. And I'm uncomfortable with that. Well, you called him again, as always, you're on your game, mister Ross. What about valedictorian or detective school for nothing? Well, I'll tell you what, it would have been helpful if we would have had you out there officiating at the Super Bowl. Boy, a lot of people were upset. I was watching with a bunch of eagles fans. I'm sure you were also pulling for the eagles and lot of discussion about that Super Bowl, first talking graphs, Patrick Mahomes, and the Kansas City Chiefs doing it again, man. Mahomes now are two time champ. And before we talk about the game, I think we should give some kudos to WWE. I'm sure you saw the video or at least heard of it. Man, immediately after the game, they delivered the chiefs and Patrick Mahomes specifically, a WWE replica championship belt with those Kansas City chief side plates. And that thing got traction everywhere, it's like a $300 replica belt and maybe the best advertising one could buy. It's a hell of a deal WWE's worked out with that. Yeah, smart marketing. I got stretch out of it, which is what you're looking forward to something like that. So yeah, smart marketing. Good promotion, quite frankly. And like you said, it did get traction. Yeah. It's simple to promote, to talk about, here it is and move on. So, yeah, it was good. Good. I'm happy for them and everybody. I saw, I didn't pay as much attention to the commercials this year, so I normally do. I don't know why. Nothing jumped out at me. Did anything in any commercials jump out at you as the MVP commercial? Man, there were a lot of good ones I thought this year, but I'm with you. I don't think there was one that was heads and shoulders above the rest. But I thought there were several passable ones. Me too. I think a phrase you would use is overwhelmed with the halftime show, but I did kind of forget how many hits Rihanna had, but the whole halftime show, the way they can put together such a big show and tear it down so quickly, never ceases to amaze me. I've read that there's always some time between two and 3000 part timers help and put that together. What a production man. Yeah. How do you manage all those people? Get them on the spot to right place, come out when you're supposed to come out. At the timing timing timing, it's tough. You got to wonder how many times they walked through that process before they get to Sunday Night. So you know they had to rehearse it. Endlessly. Causes too big a deal just to go do it on the workout. Be okay, it'd be okay. That's the rest of the way. It'll be all right. It will be all right. If you rehearse it, you practice Alan Iverson practice. You're talking about practice Conrad. She got a practice to get good at it. What did you think of the Super Bowl? And there's a lot of controversy about that holding call near the end of the game. Some people would say the ball wasn't catchable. Others would say holding happens on every play. We hear those cliches all the time. It used to officiate ball before you were running their own Colin rasslin matches. What'd you think? I thought it was holding. Yeah, it was. I thought he'd thought the player got redirected. And that's a telltale sign that there was something going on. I didn't think it was that controversial, but because where it happened and more importantly, when it happened, it was a huge deal. Huge call. But I thought the guy got the call right. I didn't. I didn't have any major issues with that. And I don't it's not going to sit well with eagles fans. So JR, you're crazy. And maybe I am crazy. But I thought it was holding, quite frankly. And I'm happy for Kansas City, you know, they had several sooners on their team. Including their long snapper James Winchester, their left tackle Orlando Brown, their center, a man creed Humphrey. The bulldozer, Blake bells, Beckett tied in when he got Kelsey, you don't get a lot of tight end time. He's got all of it, which is understandable. He's the best in the game. So I was happy for the sooners that those kids won. I had the same thing going with lane Johnson and Jane and hertz, on the other side. But somebody's got to lose. That was the sad part about that game. I enjoyed the hell out of the game. It was a really exciting and the way how it came down the last not the last play, but we're all intent and purposes the last play. They had no time left to do anything, and it was interesting on, I think it was the last offensive snap, maybe that
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"This is Bloomberg law. A divided Supreme Court rejects a religious challenge. Tell us a little about the facts of the case. Peter views with prominent attorneys in Bloomberg legal experts. My guest is former federal prosecutor Jimmy Carole joining me as Bloomberg long reporter Jordan Rubin. And analysis of important legal issues, cases and headlines. The Supreme Court takes on state secrets multiple lawsuits were filed against the emergency rule. Is this lawsuit for real? Bloomberg law with June Grasso. From Bloomberg radio. Welcome to the Bloomberg law show, I'm June grosso, ahead in this hour. Hermes wins the first NFT trademark trial. The U.S. crackdown on trade sanction violators is turning to the art world. The J&J bankruptcy ruling creates legal uncertainty for the Texas two step and Priscilla Presley is challenging her daughter's will. Wow, cool bag. You like it? Hello, I'm a girl. It's a purse. Not just a purse. It's a birkin bag. I went to school with a guy named ricken. I don't think this is the same birkin. Oh. Rory Gilmore may not have known about the ultimate status symbol, but her grandmother did. Oh, my God. A birkin bag. You've heard of it? Of course. That's a very nice purse. Oh. Maybe I shouldn't use it. Oh, no. A broken bag is meant to be used. And seen. The iconic birkin bags range in price from 12,000 to more than $300,000, and there's a 6 year waiting list to purchase one. So luxury brand Hermes went to trial to protect its valuable rights to the birkin trademark, suing an artist for selling meta birkin NFTs, digital images depicting the birkin but covered in colorful cartoonish fur, the artist mason Rothschild claimed the meta Perkins were works of art and protected speech under the First Amendment, but the jury disagreed, finding the NFTs were more like consumer products, subject to strict trademark laws with no First Amendment protections. Here to look behind the verdict is intellectual property litigator Terrence Ross, a partner at cat and mutch and rosenman. Terry the jury found Rothschild guilty of trademark infringement, dilution and cyber squatting. Do we know what tests they use to come to that decision? Well, the judge specifically asks the jury to determine whether or not the meta birkins produced by mister Ross child or artistic works are consumer products. And they answered that question saying that they did not view them as artwork they viewed them as consumer products. And so we have to assume that they at least considered the Rogers test because one of the requirements of the Rogers test is that it be an expressive work IE artistic work. It would have been rejected out of hand. There's this blurry line between art and commercial products. So the jury determined that NFTs are more akin to commercial products. Does that have any impact on future cases? Not really the finding of the jury is a fact finding. We will findings are left to the judge to the court. The Giuliani makes fact findings and the factual circumstances change from case to case. This is particularly true when trademark law where you can have widely different facts producing widely different results. So that finding by the jury is limited to this specific case against mister Ross child. So people have been looking at this as a case that had the potential to clarify how trademark law applies to NFTs. Does it do that? Well, I don't think a single case unless it happens to be in front of the Supreme Court is going to clarify the law in this area. What this case does do is lay down a marker on behalf of trademark owners. It points in the direction of findings that the metaverse is subject to the landmark U.S. trademark laws. And it will encourage other trademark owners to now bring to enforce their rights in the metaverse. I am aware of two clients of ours who have been thinking of bringing losses and simply waiting to see how this came out. This will encourage them. Now, the other thing this case does is that lays the foundation for appellate decisions. So now there is a concrete verdict in a case that can go up on appeal and we can see what the appellate courts think of the application trademark laws to NFTs. Yeah, so Rothschild said what happened today was wrong. What happened today will continue to happen if we don't continue to fight. This is far from over, and his attorneys said that they'll take every legal avenue that they have. What are the legal avenues that they have? So the very first option that the defense has here is to file a motion with judge rykov asking him to set aside the jury verdict and to grant judgment to the defense on the legal theories that are presented in the case. This is going to be challenging for the defense. It's something they will do. They have to do, but just basically set it at the motion that is miss stage that he was uncertain as to whether or not there was sufficient factual predicate here for the defendant to take advantage of the so called Rogers test and he wanted the jury to give him some advice on that and the jury gave him advice. They said, yes, there's not a factual predicate here. This is not an expressive work. It's not art. It's a consumer product. And the Rogers test does not apply to consumer products at least so we think. The Rogers test, which was from out this court's second circuit, expressly says that First Amendment protection extends to the use of celebrity names in expressive works where the use of the name is relevant to the work and it's not intentionally misleading and here that key element that the jury says is missing is whether or not this is an artistic work. So I think they will lose the post trial motion unless he wants to simply disregard the jury. And they'll take it up then on appeal to the second circuit. And this becomes pretty important. The second circuit is the author of the Rogers test, which the defense heavily relies upon here. It is also one of the most important ballot courts in the nation with respect to trademark law. And that's where we will really get some guidance going forward into the future. The second circuit, affirms the verdict here and says yes, this always trademark infringement. That's going to really be very influential across the rest of the United States, even though the second circuit per view is limited to New York and Connecticut. And as we've discussed, the Supreme Court is hearing a case in March involving a squeaky dog toy and the Jack Daniels trademark. Could that decision affect this case? So in my view, that has always been the 800 pound gorilla in the room that people have tended to ignore here, particularly the judge. The Supreme Court accepted the Ari and the Jack Daniels case back in November. In that case, the Rogers test is squarely presented to the Supreme Court as to whether it is a legitimate test whether it really exists because remember, second circuit made that up at a whole lot. It's not in the trademark loss. It's not statutory. It's judge made law and the Supreme Court might say, well, there is no such thing in the trademark laws. Or does the Supreme Court could say? Yes, we have to have such tests as the Rogers test in order to protect First Amendment interests in the trademark field. But we don't like the way the second circuit works the test. Our test will be and then they'll explain what it is. Or they could simply say, Rogers test is a great idea. It's really products First Amendment interests. It works perfectly fine. We're narrowly cabinet to protection of celebrity names used in artistic work or that may expand it, say we're expanded to expressive works more generally, but so with all those question marks hanging over this case, it really made no sense to try it. In my view, other than to say you're moving your docket of cases down the road because of the whole thing could be tossed out by a decision Supreme Court and there might have to be a do over. I don't think Hermes was in this for the money, but the
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"This is Bloomberg law. A divided Supreme Court rejects a religious challenge. Tell us a little about the facts of the case. Peter views with prominent attorneys in Bloomberg legal experts. My guest is former federal prosecutor Jimmy garu joining me as Bloomberg long reporter Jordan Rubin. And analysis of important legal issues, cases in headlines. The Supreme Court takes on state secrets multiple lawsuits were filed against the emergency rule. Is this lawsuit for real? Bloomberg law with June Grasso. From Bloomberg radio. Welcome to the Bloomberg law show, I'm June Grasso, ahead in this hour. Hermes wins the first NFT trademark trial. The U.S. crackdown on trade sanction violators is turning to the art world. The J&J bankruptcy ruling creates legal uncertainty for the Texas two step and Priscilla Presley is challenging her daughter's will. Wow, cool bag. You like it? Hello, I'm a girl. It's a purse. Not just a purse. It's a birkin bag. I went to school a guy named ricken. I don't think this is the same birkin. Oh. Rory Gilmore may not have known about the ultimate status symbol, but her grandmother did. Oh, my God. A birkin bag. You've heard of it? Of course. That's a very nice purse. Oh. Maybe I shouldn't use it. Oh, no. A birkin bag is meant to be used. And seen. The iconic birkin bags range in price from 12,000 to more than $300,000, and there's a 6 year waiting list to purchase one. So luxury brand Hermes went to trial to protect its valuable rights to the birkin trademark, suing an artist for selling meta birkin NFTs, digital images depicting the birkin but covered in colorful cartoonish fur. The artist mason Rothschild claimed the meta Perkins were works of art and protected speech under the First Amendment, but the jury disagreed, finding the NFTs were more like consumer products, subject to strict trademark laws with no First Amendment protections. Here to look behind the verdict is intellectual property litigator Terrence Ross, a partnered cat and mutch and rosenman. Terry the jury found Rothschild guilty of trademark infringement dilution and cyber squatting. Do we know what test they use to come to that decision? Well, the judge specifically asked the jury to determine whether or not the meta birkins produced by mister Ross child or artistic works are consumer products. And they answered that question saying that they did not view them as artwork they viewed them as consumer products. And so we have to assume that they at least considered the Rogers test because one of the requirements of the Rogers test is that it be an expressive work IE artistic work. It would have been rejected out of hand. There's this blurry line between art and commercial products. So the jury determined that NFTs are more akin to commercial products. Does that have any impact on future cases? Not really the finding of the jury is a fact finding. We will findings are left to the judge to the court. The jury only makes fact findings and the factual circumstances change from case to case. This is particularly true in trademark law where you can have widely different facts producing widely different results. So that finding by the jury is limited to this specific case against mister Ross child. So people have been looking at this as a case that had the potential to clarify how trademark law applies to NFTs. Does it do that? Well, I don't think a single case unless it happens to be in front of the Supreme Court is going to clarify the law in this area. What this case does do is lay down a marker on behalf of trademark owners. It points in the direction of findings that the metaverse is subject to the landmass U.S. trademark laws. And it will encourage other trademark owners to now bring suit to enforce their rights in the metaverse. I am aware of two clients of ours who have been thinking of bringing losses and simply waiting to see how this came out. This will encourage them. Now, the other thing this case does is that lays the foundation for appellate decisions. So now there is a concrete verdict in a case that can go up on appeal and we can see what the appellate courts think of the application trademark laws to NFTs. Yeah, so Rothschild said what happened today was wrong. What happened today will continue to happen if we don't continue to fight. This is far from over, and his attorneys said that they'll take every legal avenue that they have. What are the legal avenues that they have? The very first option that the defense has here is to file a motion with judge right off asking him to set aside the jury verdict and to grant judgment to the defense on the legal theories that are presented in the case. This is going to be challenging for the defense. It's something they will do. They have to do. But basically at the motion it is miss stage that he was uncertain as to whether or not there was sufficient factual predicate here or the defendant to take advantage of the so called Rogers test and he wanted the jury to give him some advice on that and that jury gave him advice. They said, yes, there's not a factual predicate here. This is not an expressive work. It's not art. It's a consumer product. And the Rogers test does not apply to consumer products at least so we think. The Rogers test, which was from out this court's second circuit, expressly says that First Amendment protection extends to the use of celebrity names in expressive works where the use of the name is relevant to the work and it's not intentionally misleading and here that key element that the jury says is missing is whether or not this is an artistic work. So I think they will lose the post trial motions unless you want to simply disregard the jury. And they'll take it up then on appeal to the second circuit. And this becomes pretty important because the second circuit is the author of the Rogers test, which the defense heavily relies upon here. It is also one of the most important ballot courts in the nation with respect to trademark law. And that's where we will really get some guidance going forward into the future. The second circuit, affirms the verdict here and says yes, this always trademark infringement. That's going to really be very influential across the rest of the United States, even though the second circuit per view is limited to New York and Connecticut. And as we've
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"mister ross" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"You're going to get swarmed by an Army of the Dead, why not get swarmed in an EV? To Squid Game. Would I make more of those cars electric? Honest. You know, this is partly a way to share the cost of what is a very expensive Super Bowl ad going for over $6 million. Kimberly Adams Bloomberg radio. This is Bloomberg law. A divided Supreme Court rejects a religious challenge. Tell us a little about the facts of the case. Peter views with prominent attorneys in Bloomberg legal experts. I guess his former federal prosecutor Jimmy Carroll joining me is Bloomberg law reporter Jordan Rubin. And analysis of important legal issues, cases in headlines. The Supreme Court takes on state secrets multiple lawsuits were filed against the emergency rule. Is this lawsuit for real? Bloomberg law with June Grasso from Bloomberg radio. Welcome to the Bloomberg law show, I'm June Grasso, ahead in this hour. Hermes wins the first NFT trademark trial. The U.S. crackdown on trade sanctioned violators is turning to the art world. The J&J bankruptcy ruling creates legal uncertainty for the Texas two step and Priscilla Presley is challenging her daughter's will. Wow, cool a bag. You like it? Hello, I'm a girl. It's a purse. Not just a purse. It's a birkin bag. I went to school with a guy named birkin. I don't think this is the same birkin. Oh. Rory Gilmore may not have known about the ultimate status symbol, but her grandmother did. Oh, my God. A birkin bag. You've heard of it? Of course. That's a very nice purse. Oh. Maybe I shouldn't use it. Oh, no. A broken bag is meant to be used. And seen. The iconic birkin bags range in price from 12,000 to more than $300,000, and there's a 6 year waiting list to purchase one. So luxury brand Hermes went to trial to protect its valuable rights to the birkin trademark, suing an artist for selling meta birkin NFTs, digital images depicting the birkin but covered in colorful cartoonish fur, the artist mason Rothschild claimed the meta birkins were works of art and protected speech under the First Amendment, but the jury disagreed, finding the NFTs were more like consumer products, subject to strict trademark laws with no First Amendment protections. Here to look behind the verdict is intellectual property litigator Terrence Ross, a partnered cat and mutant rosenman. Terry the jury found Rothschild guilty of trademark infringement dilution and cyber squatting. Do we know what tests they use to come to that decision? Well, the judge specifically asked a jury to determine whether or not the meta birkins produced by mister Ross child or artistic works are consumer products. And the answer that question saying that they did not view them as artwork they viewed them as consumer products. And so we have to assume that they at least considered the Rogers test because one of the requirements of the Rogers test is that it be an expressive work ID in our artistic work. It would have been rejected out of hand. There's this blurry line between art and commercial products. So the jury determined that NFTs are more akin to commercial products. Does that have any impact on future cases? Not really the finding of the jury is a fact finding a legal findings are left to the judge to the court. The majority only makes fact findings and the factual circumstances change from case to case. This is particularly true when trademark law where you can have widely different facts producing widely different results facility. That finding by the jury is limited to this specific case against mister Ross child. So people have been looking at this as a case that had the potential to clarify how trademark law applies to NFTs. Does it do that? Well, I don't think a single case unless it happens to be in front of the Supreme Court is going to clarify the law in this area. What this case does do is lay down a marker on behalf of trademark owners. It points in the direction of findings that the metaverse is subject to the landmass U.S. trademark laws. And it will encourage other trademark owners to now bring suits to enforce their rights in the metaverse. I am aware of two clients of ours who have been thinking of bringing losses and simply waiting to see how this came out. This will encourage them. Now, the other thing this case does is that lays the foundation for appellate decisions. So now there is a concrete verdict in a case that can go up on appeal and we can see what the appellate courts think of the application trademark laws to NFTs. Yeah, so Rothschild said what happened today was wrong. What happened today will continue to happen if we don't continue to fight. This is far from over and his attorneys said that they'll take every legal avenue that they have. What are the legal avenues that they have? So the very first option that the defense has here is to file a motion with judge right cough asking him to set aside the jury verdict and to grant judgment to the defense on the legal theories that are presented in the case. This is going to be challenging for the defense. It's something they will do. They have to do, but just basically set it at the motion to dismiss stage that he was uncertain as to whether or not there was sufficient factual predicate here or the defendant to take advantage of the so called Rogers test and he wanted the jury to give him some advice on that and the jury gave him advice. They said, yes, there's not a factual predicate here. This is not an expressive work. It's not art. It's a consumer product. And the Rogers test does not apply to consumer products at least so we think. The Rogers test, which was from out this court's second circuit, expressly says that First Amendment protection extends to the use of celebrity names in expressive works where the use of the name is relevant to the work and it's not intentionally misleading and here that key element that the jury says is missing is whether or not this is an artistic work. So I think they will lose the post trial motions unless he wants to simply disregard the jury. And they'll take it up then on appeal to the second circuit. And this becomes pretty important because the second circuit is the author of the Rogers test, which the defense heavily relies upon here. It is also one of the most important ballot courts in the nation with respect to trademark law. And that's where we will really get some guidance going forward into the future. The second circuit, affirms the verdict here and says yes, this was trademark infringement. That's going to really be very influential across the rest of the United States, even though the second circuit is per view is limited to the New York and Connecticut. And as we've discussed, the Supreme Court is hearing a case in March involving a squeaky dog toy and the Jack Daniels trademark. Could that decision affect this case? So in my view, that has always been the 800 pound gorilla in the room that people have tended to ignore here, particularly the judge. The Supreme Court accepted search theory in the Jack Daniel's case back in November. In that case, the Rogers test is squarely presented to the Supreme Court as to whether it is a legitimate test whether it really exists because remember, second circuit made that up at a whole clot. It's not in the trademark laws. It's not statutory. It's judge made law and
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"mister ross" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This is Bloomberg law. A divided Supreme Court rejects a religious challenge. Tell us a little about the facts of the case. Peter views with prominent attorneys in Bloomberg legal experts. My guest is former federal prosecutor Jimmy garu joining me as Bloomberg law reporter Jordan Rubin. And analysis of important legal issues, cases and headlines. The Supreme Court takes on state secrets multiple lawsuits were filed against the emergency rule. Is this lawsuit for real? Bloomberg law with June Grasso. From Bloomberg radio. Welcome to the Bloomberg law show, I'm June Grasso, ahead in this hour. Hermes wins the first NFT trademark trial. The U.S. crackdown on trade sanction violators is turning to the art world. The J&J bankruptcy ruling creates legal uncertainty for the Texas two step and Priscilla Presley is challenging her daughter's will. Wow, cool bag. Do you like it? Hello, I'm a girl. It's a purse. Not just a purse as a birkin bag. I went to school a guy named ricken. I don't think this is the same birkin. Oh. Rory Gilmore may not have known about the ultimate status symbol, but her grandmother did. Oh, my God. A birkin bag. You've heard of it? Of course. That's a very nice purse. Oh. Maybe I shouldn't use it. Oh, no. A birkin bag is meant to be used. And seen. The iconic birkin bags range in price from 12,000 to more than $300,000, and there's a 6 year waiting list to purchase one. So luxury brand Hermes went to trial to protect its valuable rights to the birkin trademark, suing an artist for selling meta birkin NFTs, digital images depicting the birkin but covered in colorful cartoonish fur, the artist mason Rothschild claimed the meta Perkins were works of art and protected speech under the First Amendment, but the jury disagreed, fine in the NFTs were more like consumer products, subject to strict trademark laws with no First Amendment protections. Here to look behind the verdict is intellectual property litigator Terrence Ross, a partner at cat and mutch and rosenman. Terry the jury found Rothschild guilty of trademark infringement dilution and cyber squatting. Do we know what tests they use to come to that decision? Well, the judge specifically asks the jury to determine whether or not the meta birkins produced by mister Ross child or artistic works are consumer products. And they answered that question saying that they did not view them as artwork they viewed them as consumer products. And so we have to assume that they at least considered the Rogers test because one of the requirements of the Rogers test is that it be an expressive work IE artistic work. It would have been rejected out of hand. There's this blurry line between art and commercial products. So the jury determined that NFTs are more akin to commercial products. Does that have any impact on future cases? Not really the finding of the jury is a fact finding. We will findings are left to the judge to the court. The jury only makes fact findings and the factual circumstances change from case to case. This is particularly true when trademark law where you can have widely different facts producing widely different results. So that finding by the jury is limited to this specific case against mister Ross child. So people have been looking at this as a case that had the potential to clarify how trademark law applies to NFTs. Does it do that? Well, I don't think a single case unless it happens to be in front of the Supreme Court is going to clarify the law in this area. What this case does do is lay down a marker on behalf of trademark owners. It points in the direction of findings that the metaverse is subject to the landmass U.S. trademark laws. And it will encourage other trademark owners to now bring suits to enforce their rights in the metaverse. I am aware of two clients of ours who have been thinking of bringing Los Angeles and simply waiting to see how this came out. This will encourage them. Now, the other thing this case does is that lays the foundation for appellate decisions. So now there is a concrete verdict in a case that can go up on appeal and we can see what the appellate courts think of the application trademark laws to NFTs. Yeah, so Rothschild said what happened today was wrong. What happened today will continue to happen if we don't continue to fight. This is far from over. And his attorneys said that they'll take every legal avenue that they have. What are the legal avenues that they have? So the very first option that the defense has here is to file a motion with judge right cough. I'm asking him to set aside the jury verdict and to grant judgment to the defense on the legal theories that are presented in the case. This is going to be challenging for the defense. It's something they will do. They have to do. But basically at the motion it is miss stage that he was uncertain as to whether or not there was sufficient factual predicate here for the defendant to take advantage of the so called Rogers test and he wanted the jury to give him some advice on that and that jury gave him advice. They said, yes, there's not a factual predicated here. This is not an expressive work. It's not art. It's a consumer product. And the Rogers test does not apply to consumer products at least so we think. The Rogers test, which was from out this court's second circuit, expressly says that First Amendment protection extends to the use of celebrity names in expressive works where the use of the name is relevant to the work and it's not intentionally misleading and here that key element that the jury says is missing is whether or not this is an artistic work. So I think they will lose the post trial motions unless he wants to simply disregard the jury. And they'll take it up and on appeal to the second circuit. And this becomes pretty important because the second circuit is the author of the Rogers test, which the defense heavily relies upon here. It is also one of the most important ballot courts in the nation with respect to trademark law. And that's where we will really get some guidance going forward into the future. The second circuit, affirms the verdict here and says yes, this was trademark infringement. That's going to really be very influential across the rest of the United States, even though the second circuit is per view is limited to New York and Connecticut. And as we've
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"mister ross" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"A bag. You like it? Hello, I'm a girl. It's a purse. Not just a purse. It's a birkin bag. I went to school with a guy named birkin. I don't think this is the same birkin. Oh. Rory Gilmore may not have known about the ultimate status symbol, but her grandmother did. Oh, my God. A birkin bag. You've heard of it? Of course. That's a very nice purse. Oh. Maybe I shouldn't use it. Oh, no. A broken bag is meant to be used. And seen. I had no idea. Well, well, well. A birkin bag. That birkin bag of birkin bag for Rory. Come on. The iconic birkin bags range in price from 12,000 to more than $300,000, and there's a 6 year waiting list to purchase one, so luxury brand Hermes went to trial to protect its right to the valuable birken trademark against a digital artist who started selling meta Burke and NFTs. Digital images depicting the birkin but covered in colorful cartoonish fur. The artist mason Rothschild claimed the meta birkins were artworks, protected by the First Amendment, but a Manhattan jury disagreed and found for Hermes. Here to look behind the verdict is intellectual property litigator Terrence Ross, a partner at cat and mutant rosenman. The jury found him guilty of trademark infringement dilution and cyber squatting. Do we know what test they used in order to come to that? Well, the judge specifically asked them the jury to determine whether or not the meta birkins produced by mister Ross child or artistic works are consumer products. And the answer that question saying that they did not view them as artwork they viewed them as consumer products. And so we have to assume that they at least considered the Rogers test because one of the requirements of the Rogers test is that it be an expressive work IE artistic work. It would have been rejected out of hand that test. So there's this blurry line between art and commercial products. So the jury determined that NFTs are more akin to commercial products. Does that have any impact on future cases? Not really the finding of the jury is a fact finding legal findings are left to the judge to the court. The jury only makes fact findings. And the factual circumstances change from case to case is particularly true when trademark law where you can have widely different facts producing widely different results. So that finding by the jury is limited to this specific case against mister Rothschild. Rothschild had argued that his NFTs are works of art protected by the First Amendment. No different from Andy Warhol's famous silk screen prints of Campbell's soup cans, how did that argument take a hit when the judge made a ruling right in the beginning of the trial? So before opening arguments even commands as part of a pretrial set of rulings, the judge barred testimony from the defendant, mister Rothschild, expert witness, who is an art critic and proposed coming before the jury testifying that the meta birkins created by mister Rothschild were no different than the Campbell Soup painting that is now literally iconic in American artwork from the 1960s. And so being unable to present that testimony from their expert, art critic, really hamstrung the defense throughout the case. So people have been looking at this as a case that had the potential to clarify how trademark law applies to NFTs. Does it do that? Well, I don't think a single case unless it happens to be in front of the Supreme Court is going to clarify the law in this area. What this case does do is lay down a marker on behalf of trademark owners. It points in the direction of findings that the metaverse is subject to the landmass U.S. trademark laws. And it will encourage other trademark owners to now bring to enforce their rights in the metaverse. I am aware of two clients of ours who have been thinking of bringing losses and simply waiting to see how this came out. This will encourage them. Now, the other thing this case does is that lays the foundation for appellate decisions. So now there is a concrete verdict in a case that can go up on appeal and we can see what the appellate courts think of the application trademark laws to NFTs. Yeah, so Rothschild said what happened today was wrong. What happened today will continue to happen if we don't continue to fight. This is far from over, and his attorneys said that they will appeal, they'll take every legal avenue that they have. What are the legal avenues that they have? So the very first option that the defense has here is to file a motion with judge right cough asking him to set aside the jury verdict and to grant judgment to the defense on the legal theories that are presented in the case. This is going to be challenging for the defense. It's something they will do. They have to do, but just basically set it at the motion to dismiss stage that he was uncertain as to whether or not there was sufficient factual predicate here or the defendant to take advantage of the so called Rogers test. And he wanted the jury to give him some advice on that and the jury gave him advice. They said, yes, yes, there's not a factual predicate here. This is not an expressive work. It's not art. It's a consumer product. And the Rogers test does not apply to consumer products at least. So we think the Rogers test, which was from out this court second circuit, expressly says that First Amendment protection extends to the use of celebrity names in expressive works where the use of the name is relevant to the work and it's not intentionally misleading and here that key element that the jury says is missing is whether or not this is an artistic work. So I think they will lose the post trial motions unless he wants to simply disregard the jury. And they'll take it up then on appeal to the second circuit. And this becomes pretty important because the second circuit is the author of the Rogers test, which the defense heavily relies upon here. It is also one of the most important courts in the nation with respect to trademark law. And that's where we will really get some guidance going forward into the future. The second circuit, affirms the verdict here and says yes, this was trademark infringement. That's going to really be very influential across the rest of the United States, even though the second circuit per view is limited to the New York and Connecticut. And the Supreme Court, as we've discussed, is deciding a case involving Jack Daniel's trademark. How might that affect this decision so in my view, that has always been the 800 pound gorilla in the room that people have tended to ignore here, particularly the judge. The Supreme Court accepted Ari in the Jack Daniel's case back in November. In that case, the Rogers test is squarely presented to the Supreme Court as to whether it is a legitimate test whether it really exists because remember, second circuit made that up at a whole lot. It's not in the trademark loss. It's not statutory. It's judge made law and the Supreme Court might say, well, there is no such thing in the trademark law. Or the Supreme Court could say? Yes, we have to have such a test as the Rogers test in order to protect the First Amendment interests in the trademark field, but we don't like the way the second circuit works the test. Our test will be and then they'll explain what it is. Or they could simply say, Rogers test
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"mister ross" Discussed on The MMQB NFL Podcast
"I mean, you've talked to everybody, like, did everybody laugh afterwards, except for Brian Flores, and still I'm taking Brian Flores aside here because I think we can all much easier put ourselves into those shoes. But was everybody else laughing afterwards? Was it this kind of like, you know, bright guys? Kind of thing, or was it like, he just said it like Robert California and freaked everybody out and all of a sudden we're left with this weird situation. I don't know. And really, I mean, Brian Flores statement was, you know, I don't think you can't help but feel for him. And I think that the one thing that everybody should be doing in this process is put yourself in the position of a first time head coach. But also a coach of color, right? You know that you're not going to get a second chance at this. You know there's probably a 99% chance that if this job doesn't go well, you're not going to get to be a head coach in the NFL anymore. And you know that your first and foremost most important thing to do is appease your owner. And if this guy walks around and starts talking about this stuff, at some point, that plays into your psyche and your internal politics. It can't not do that. And I think that that's sort of the real bummer and all of this is that as much as it seems ridiculous and it's a very uniquely NFL thing that's been happening right now. It is like still Brian Flores waving his hands in the air and saying like, hey, you know, this was really messed up and it's still going to happen to other people if we don't care about it. Connor, I think that's exactly right. And this is another case where the power balance is very important because Steven Ross, even if he was intending it as a joke. If you're Brian Flores and you're somebody whose job is dependent on this person versus Stephen Ross, who owns the team and will continue to own the team. Then you're going to receive that comment very differently. And I think that was what was kind of lost in this brushing off of the common as a joke and that if you're an employee of someone, you probably can't receive a comment from the owner as a joke. You have to wonder if he's actually saying it. You have to wonder how this is going to impact your job and future jobs. And I think that's a really important part of how that should have been considered. And the context is, again, on the and this is from the NFL, on a number of occasions during the 2019 season, mister Ross expressed his belief that the dolphin's position in the upcoming 2020 draft should take priority over the team's win loss record. On a number of a K is so this is, this is just messaging has been coming through. It wasn't joking every time. It's just, I don't know, man. You know, the late Ray Liotta. The meme, I think it's from Goodfellas where he's laughing and he's just laughing so so demonstrably. That's how Stephen Ross should have to talk from now on. He's just everything he says, just to protect himself so he can claim everything he says is, quote, ingest.
Introduction to Political Justice - Louis Felicia Numan, BBA, MSM, PhD
"mister ross" Discussed on Introduction to Political Justice - Louis Felicia Numan, BBA, MSM, PhD
"You say you won't, you get married. Same sex marriage, right? Okay. So, why is it that. When it, when the two men get married, one become a man once a heated man of the relationship and the other city, the woman of the relationship? Okay. Same sex means what? You from identical. Same means identical. You know, not fraternal, fraternal, meaning boy, girl. You say same, you had dental coat. You identified. So if you from same sex, why do one have to be the husband in one half to be the wife? See what I mean about it. You want submit. To God. Whether you want to or not, and you're going to sound like, I'm telling you, you sound and I don't have to tell you how you sound. You know, if you're a father, as you know how you sound, just so you know, I have never made a threat on anybody. I have never said, if you say that I can't get pregnant, you're biggie. Why do you have to go around and threaten people? If a man can get pregnant, okay, get pregnant. Why you get if a person says a man can't get free, will you a big, you know? You gonna lose your job. You gonna lose your life, hood. Why are we gonna lose what I got if you say you who you are? You know, if you say you who you are, why can't you defend your position? I can defend my position. You don't hear me talking about this my husband was ever fired. Every 5 or 6 seconds. Why is it that they get men and women? I want to ask them a man and a woman or something. Why are you calling your wife a partner? And why is your wife calling you a partner but then you go into the same sex? People, they are saying, this my head is. The man said, this is what I'm saying, why can't he got you? In other words, so let me tell you something about freedom. That you really made not understand see freedom don't involve taking somebody else's right. Freedom involves you just want your rights. Why you got to why I got to be called partner when I called when you just got me calling part and then you taking my title, talking about this your husband is your wife. See, that's not freedom. That's what you call a slave to sing. So you thank you free. See, that's when we talked about two shows ago. False freedom. So you thank you free. When you just, just like the prayer, we just say release the change, release the change. You know, and you send them around talking about black people and slavery. And what we went through in slavery, haven't got paid for it. But that's not my point at this particular point right there, the second. My point is, you the slave, you a slave to sing, talking about you freed now. You are the slave, talking about slavery. And I guess the main thing, like when I'm here, you know, when I hear about where I had to hear that a man can get pregnant, instead of me just hearing that, well, mister mister, mister rose gave birth, mister Ross gave birth to a certain sense of child. This is what I'm saying..
Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"mister ross" Discussed on Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"Last month, they removed the stinkin statue. And then mayor de Blasio backed the protesters rallying cries. And called it a problematic statue. That explicitly depicts black and indigenous people at subjugated and racially inferior that was a quote from de Blasio. Now, petition organizer Andrew Ross said, and I quote removal of the monument was a big win. While it was a big win, but the people that are caretakers of the statue and the organizations behind the statue are trying to thumb their noses at the removal of the statue by opening up a wound and rubbing salt into it and putting it on native land. What the F is the matter with people. So Ross, who was a professor at New York University and I founding member behind the activist group, the colonized this place. Has been putting pressure on the American museum of natural history. And the city council, which should be pressured to remove the Roosevelt statue. We pray to the museum's collection of indigenous human remains and sacred items. Which should be done. Right, well, not only should, they have to. Under federal law. Under the Native American graves and repatriation act, every museum in this country, in particular, if they're accepting grant money, federal grant money has to comply with this. So that would be my suggestion back to mister Ross is to go and take a look at how much federal money is the American museum of national history receiving. And also and ask them to reveal to us what their current nagpur policy is. Bet you anything it doesn't exist. Or if it does exist that they're not complying with it, clearly they're not. That's exactly what I was going to say. You would be very surprised how many museums, and there's two sides of this problem, okay? But how many museums and universities do not have a Native American graves and protection act policy? The most recent, the most recent to change that and actually now have one in place thanks to some very good work by individuals that I know is the university of Connecticut. Good. And I applaud them and thank them for doing that. The other side of the challenge is, okay, we have a policy. How do we get these items back to their appropriate tribes? And that's a very, very long and detailed process. But it doesn't mean you don't do it or attempt to do it. Well, the process is the process to delay as long as possible. It's been put in place for a reason. Oh, go ahead. I was going to say, now, if native archeologists, anthropologists, and other disciplines in the field of anthropology, went around digging up white folks graves. And storing them in vaults and boxes to collect dust. For decades, people would be up in arms. Sure. They'd be up.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mister ross" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Down just about one tenth of 1% But as you run your portfolio numbers keep in mind Mark Zuckerberg's wealth dropping as much as $31 billion today again 31 billion I'm Charlie Pablo fetas of Bloomberg business flash All right just one week from now Tim and I are going to be out in sunny LA just ahead of the Super Bowl and at the Bloomberg player It's a gathering of who's who in sports including NFL team owners players of all sports agents broadcasters and so much more no doubt we will be talking about the explosive lawsuit filed by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores So let's get some reporting on this and what the owner of the dolphins is now saying with us right now is Bloomberg news legal reporter crystal mech He's on the phone from Manhattan The Manhattan federal courthouse Hey Chris nice to have you here with Tim and myself So what is the owner talking about We're talking about Stephen Ross Yes So mister Ross is the heatly denying the allocations in the lawsuit Substantially the allegation that he offered Brian Flores a $100,000 per game to lose basically the tank so that the team would have a worse record and have a better shot at one of the top draft picks He's saying he never made these He's welcomed the NFL's investigation And he's promising to fight these allegations In the lawsuit florist does allege that his refusal to tank games led to a clash with Stephen Ross who was mad that the team won 5 games that season costing them a chance at the top overall draft pick Chris first of all these are big allegations It's interesting I've seen an interview with Brian Flores on CBS I mean to come out when he was potentially up for maybe other jobs at other teams These are big allegations to make They're huge And I mean as he said himself this is a huge professional risk He doesn't really expect to work any NFL anymore after this So whether or not the lawsuit goes anywhere there's a lot of variables It's a class action suit He has to certify a class in order to perceive that way There'll be years of arguments at least months of arguments dismissal motion things like that But whether or not this goes anywhere This Los is a huge shot across the ballot the NFL Whether it's 16 or not It's an issue that has been plaguing the league for decades and they've been accused of not hiring black coaches That's the whole reason the Rooney rule is And that's the big part of his lawsuit right Correct The Rudi rule is the sham that it's really not it doesn't do anything because they don't actually hire black coaches They just interview them He says he got a sham interview with the Denver Broncos two years ago Yeah And Chris as you note the giant dolphins and Denver Broncos are all co defendants in the lawsuit So you mentioned Chris that it doesn't matter whether this lawsuit goes anywhere and it could drag on for years What could the implications be for the NFL Well certainly there could be some sort of settlement where the NFL kind of agrees to make some sort of changes in its functions and the way the ruler ruler enforces it to try to make some improvements But that's just assuming there's a settlement and it doesn't go to court I mean that could take a long time We'll see what happens But the implications for the NFL legally are a lot less probably important than really just in terms of its fan base It's perception It's image and two weeks like you guys said the Super Bowl is coming up You guys will both be there It's going to be a huge topic of conversation The NFL would prefer that this stick about the rams and the forgotten the other team But the Bengals Don't forget to go My wife is going to be very very angry at Chris All Cincinnati people should do this I can say all the playoff games It's easy to be like wait wait who finally wanted it 'cause it was such a toss up in those playoffs Hey listen Chris Chris just 20 seconds left here Does he have to get the other members for this to ultimately become that class action and have some bite real quickly He does but he you know his lawyer Doug big Dorian said that he has other people ready to sign on Others have said they have coaches that can kind of similarly prove the same allegations So that's a good chance he could get other people in here Whether I get a class different story Yeah it's going to be fascinating to watch Crystal met Legal reporter at Bloomberg news on the phone from the Manhattan federal courthouse Well said the Washington D.C. for a check latest world in national news with Nancy Lyons who I just learned is a Bengals fan That's right My husband is.
Ben Shapiro
Trump fundraiser puts billionaire host on defensive
"Welcome back to the bench well once you castigate president from the **** and all of his supporters is not to say that basically allows you to do anything the New York times today is coming out and making the case that basically all trump supporters should be docks even though the fully admit that those trump supporters are being harassed he's number one from The New York Times they say trump opponents want him to name one to name his big donors his supporters say it's harassment by Katie Rogers and Annie Karni they start out for many businesses a sudden deluge of phone calls made signal an influx of new customers but most of the twenty five calls just inherits received before noon on Thursday from people who wanted to tell him he was a white supremacist for donating money to president trump X. the owner of precision pipe rentals in oil and gas services company in San Antonio said quote I've had people say Hey we're gonna use your for business but we found out your racist we hope you burn in hell your business will go with you the reason for the calls was terraces inclusion this week on a list of forty four San Antonio area residents of maxed out their donations to the president's reelection campaign that list we shared on Twitter by representative walking Castro a Texas Democrat who serves as the chairman of the presidential campaign of his twin brother William Republicans have accused the congressman of dioxin private citizens and trying to incite harassment of the president's supporters now I find it hilarious that The New York Times which will simultaneously claim that from incited violence will suggest that Joaquin Castro had no role in inciting harassment of businesses whose names he tweeted out and call them complicit in murder effectively so yeah I I'm not going to stand by your standard of causation dies I think that you've got this little mixed up your time has a similar uproar over from donors is playing out in the monied enclave of the Hamptons we're real estate developers are hosting to fundraisers for Mr trump on Friday progressives looking for a way to express their anger and Mr trump and the people who support him have threatened to boycott SoulCycle the popular spin studios chain an equal knocks high and Jim both owned by the billionaire developer Stephen Ross was scheduled to host the president calling out people who fund campaigns is not a new tactic but the question of how much should be publicly disclosed about those donors has been an issue that Republicans led by the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have repeatedly raised in recent years in a heated political environment boycotting businesses a big donors has led to a new round of outrage at either end of the political spectrum okay so the New York times openly acknowledging that the people that walking Castro targeted are being harassed so there are times then has an editorial from the editorial board it's called may the SoulCycle boycott make democracy better and then they try to separate off what Joaquin Castro did from what the people what kind soul cycle that which is impossible because it's the same exact thing it is targeting donors to political campaigns on the basis of their politics and then suggesting that they're responsible for great evil and known to patronize their businesses and it is our pitchforks and torches outside their house it is the same exact thing New York times is embarrassed the walking Castro precipitated harassment of specific people but they kind of like a stack again that's a the editorial says this instance like walking Castro's up stage a real concern Americans should want to know more about who funds political campaigns I'm we already have transparency laws in place we already know who funds political campaigns that's not what's going on here what is going on here is that when you call trumpet **** when you call his supporters **** and then you say here all the people who donate money to **** you should not be surprised when the political climate change that you are incurring racks up and continues rack up again I'm focusing in on the left today because the reactionary left is doing this this week trump is raise the temperature in the past and I've read too many one when he has yeah but the the raising the political temperature from left this week has been utterly astonishing in the aftermath of an attack but you to Lisa brought us together for a moment of morning when we're on the same page with regard to white supremacism so the New York times editorial board tries to tries to distinguish the same movement to go after equinox and SoulCycle from what what walking Castro did is that a popular form of protest boycotts more often serve to drop public attention to an issue and to affect concrete change with Mister Ross critics may or may not managed to inflict any financial pain they nonetheless are to public publicly demanding that he answer for and perhaps ultimately rethink his political giving in the process they're sending a signal to other major contributors to carefully consider their choices less they faced a similar accounting public shaming seems to be at the core a Mister Castro street well the outcry from Republican officials as much louder the Texas congressman was accused of inviting harassment and encouraging violence against his own constituents there is rich irony about the Republican self righteous that Baba then they say well it's kind of embarrassing that that Mr Castro did this right they say that he links disclosure from policy and that is that that is a bad thing but then they conclude I basically saying that we should increase the amount of coverage of this sort of stuff they say for now one basic step maybe for media outlets and other advocates for transparency to keep working to ease access to and promote interest in donor data more broadly in other words were embarrassed the people harassed the people that were targeted by walking castles do more of that more of that would be good the only problem is that Castro said the quiet part out loud and the people he target or the little people but if they've been the big people it would've been fine that wasn't I think it's perfectly appropriate to call out major donors for whom they donate to I do not think it is appropriate to boycott businesses in which they invest specifically because they happen to be investors in that business especially if the particularly and only if the business does not reflect the policy preferences of the person at the top so I don't know which businesses George Soros is invested I don't frankly I don't really care because as long as those businesses are not reflecting his political preferences I will shop there I think George Soros donates a lot of people to people I really just like I think that is politics are egregiously bad in many many ways really terrible in many ways I think funds a lot of groups that I really can't stand but I'm not gonna stop shopping I'm not going to become part of a country where everybody is expected N. N. must in fact go through the corporate boards of every major corporation that produces a product that we eat where or entertained by and then decide whether those people reflect our politics by the way important to note one of the major funders of Marvel entertainment is a trump donor so guys to start start burning your Avengers endgame DVDs well well that it is all making the country so much stronger and so much better in the aftermath of something as terrible as what just happened the fact that we can't get together on anything is really indicative of a of a serious