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Speaker 1: And it's time now for our daily morning Bloomberg Law Brief,

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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news. The law brief is

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Speaker 1: i c d R dot Org. Bloomberg lawhosting Grosso and

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Speaker 1: Michael Best discuss a copyright infringement suit filed by the

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Speaker 1: Eagles against the owners of the Hotel California in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: They speak with Dr Michael Harrington, a musicologist a music

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Speaker 1: business program faculty chair at the S. A. E. Institute

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Speaker 1: in Nashville. Michael described the Eagles trademark infringement case. It's

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Speaker 1: I think pretty good because the song is so well known,

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Speaker 1: that's been around a long time. And even though the

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Speaker 1: hotel in Baja Mexico is called Hotel California, h long

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Speaker 1: ago lost that name, a changed ownership and so forth. Um,

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Speaker 1: but then the do you even go to the Hotel

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Speaker 1: California website? You see that says it's accessed by driving

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Speaker 1: down along Desert Highway. And they talked mission bells are heard. Um,

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Speaker 1: And also I think the Eagles I can see why

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Speaker 1: they're concerned. Also because Hotel California in the Baja place

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Speaker 1: has been applying for a lot of trademarks for a

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Speaker 1: lot of goods and services, so I think that's probably

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Speaker 1: what led to led to this. Well, Michael, what if

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Speaker 1: any kind of defense does the hotel have here. Well,

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Speaker 1: it'd be interesting to see if the Eagles have a

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Speaker 1: trademark in Hotel California. I know that the words because

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Speaker 1: I know right now they've applied for one this year

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Speaker 1: and it covers oh, guitar picks, key chains, t shirts,

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Speaker 1: bunch and things like that. And also the fact that

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Speaker 1: it was called at once for years. It was founded

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Speaker 1: that way. And from what I've seen, I don't know

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Speaker 1: that they're saying Eagles on the clothing. It says Hotel

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Speaker 1: California on all their all the merchandise, So I'm not sure, Um,

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Speaker 1: how you know how how much it says Eagles, except

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Speaker 1: they play Eagles music there and they feature things like

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Speaker 1: even Vanity Fair reviewed the hotel and they called it

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Speaker 1: they had phrase easy living at the Hotel California. You know,

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Speaker 1: everyone keeps trying to play on the Eagles song. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I think is going against the hotel in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: Dr Michael Harrington, a musicologist and music Business program faculty

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Speaker 1: chair at the s A. E. Institute in Nashville, speaking

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