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26 June 2015Copyright

Artist targets Starbucks in copyright lawsuit

A New York artist has sued Starbucks and an advertising agency it uses accusing the companies of infringing her copyright in a campaign to advertise a new Starbucks product.

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Starbucks’s Frappuccino ad cleared of artist’s copyright infringement claim
15 January 2016   A New York court has cleared Starbucks of copyright infringement after it ruled that the advertising campaign for its Frappuccino did not infringe artist Maya Hayuk’s work.
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Starbucks angered by rival’s Freddoccino
13 January 2016   Starbucks has sued a rival coffee chain alleging infringement of its trademarks for the term ‘Frappuccino’.


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