{"id":2075,"date":"2024-03-11T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T06:39:12","slug":"frida-kahlo-corporation-files-lawsuits-against-amazon-sellers-over-trademark-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/frida-kahlo-corporation-files-lawsuits-against-amazon-sellers-over-trademark-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Frida Kahlo Corporation Files Lawsuits against Amazon Sellers over Trademark Infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_frida-kahlo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"frida-kahlo\">Frida Kahlo<\/a>\u00a0Corporation filed two lawsuits on March 4 against online merchants in a bid to end the unauthorized reproduction of Kahlo\u2019s likeness and art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The company, which owns the trademark, has demanded that Amazon vendors either relinquish all profits allegedly made from her counterfeit image, or $2 million \u201cfor each and every counterfeit use of the asserted trademarks,\u201d\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">Courthouse News<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cDefendants\u2019 images, artwork and derivative works are virtually identical to and\/or substantially similar to the Frida Kahlo works,\u201d the company wrote in its primary\u00a0complaint. \u201cSuch conduct infringes and continues to infringe the Frida Kahlo works in violation of [U.S. trademark law].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Frida Kahlo, a staunch anti-capitalist, died in 1954 without a will, so in accordance with Mexico\u2019s property law, her niece, Isolda Pinedo Kahlo, inherited the artist\u2019s property rights. Isolda Pinedo Kahlo\u2019s daughter, Maria Cristina Romeo Pinedo, was granted power of attorney over these rights in 2003. The Frida Kahlo Corporation was formed the following year with the primary objective of safeguarding the \u201clicensing and commercializing of the \u2018Frida Kahlo\u2019 brand worldwide.\u201d Based in Panama City, Panama, it controls more than two dozen trademarks associated with Kahlo\u2019s brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The company claims in its lawsuit that the online merchants used \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">fictitious names<\/a>\u201d to peddle products on Amazon and other online commercial platforms, and gained their products from a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">common source<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cDefendants communicate with each other and regularly participate in chat rooms and online forums regarding tactics for operating multiple accounts, evading detection, pending litigation, and potential new lawsuits,\u201d the company writes in their complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">This is not the first time the Frida Kahlo Corporation has tried to exert legal control of Kahlo\u2019s brand. In 2018 the Frida Kahlo Corporation filed a complaint in the US District Court for Southern Florida against Kahlo\u2019s great-niece, Maria Cristina Romeo Pinedo, and her daughter, Mara de Anda Romeo, accusing the two of trademark infringement. Long-simmering tension between the parties erupted following Mattel\u2019s release of a Barbie doll depicting Kahlo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The artist\u2019s relatives argued in a Mexican court that the company did not have license to use Kahlo\u2019s image for the series of toys which honored inspiring women in history. A judge ruled in their favor and ordered the toymaker and department stores in Mexico to stop selling the doll. Mattel said in a statement that it had obtained permission from the Panama-based Frida Kahlo Corporation, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">which owns all the rights<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">These legal battles are complicated by Kahlo\u2019s own political legacy. Kahlo was deeply inspired by the ideals and nationalist fervor of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, which replaced an oligarchy that favored wealthy industrialists with a constitutional republic. After marrying Diego Rivera, she became active within Communist and anti-imperialist circles. (Kahlo and Rivera hosted Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, at Casa Azul after the couple fled Stalin\u2019s regime.) She was also critical of capitalist systems in the United States and Europe, both of which she wrote about with disdain in private correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Frida Kahlo\u00a0Corporation filed two lawsuits on March 4 against online merchants in a bid to end the unauthorized reproduction of Kahlo\u2019s likeness and art. 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