{"id":137886,"date":"2025-02-26T21:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/26\/ultra-music-publishing-must-change-name-after-violating-ultra-trademark-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:07:25","slug":"ultra-music-publishing-must-change-name-after-violating-ultra-trademark-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/26\/ultra-music-publishing-must-change-name-after-violating-ultra-trademark-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra Music Publishing Must Change Name After Violating \u2018Ultra\u2019 Trademark, Judge\u00a0Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tA U.S. federal court judge has ruled that Ultra Music Publishing must change its name within six months after a jury found that the company breached the \u201cUltra\u201d trademark owned by the Sony Music-owned Ultra Records.<\/p>\n

\n\tUltra Music Publishing is owned by Patrick Moxey,<\/strong> who also founded Ultra Records in 1995 and sold his remaining 50% share of the label to Sony Music in 2021. Sony brought the lawsuit<\/a> against Ultra Music Publishing the following year, attesting that Moxey (who founded the publishing company in 2004) had signed away his rights to the trademark after selling his stake in the Ultra label.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tLegal War Between Sony Music & Ultra Music Publishing Escalates With Clash Over\u00a0Copyrights\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

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\n\tAt the December trial, lawyers for Sony\/Ultra Records argued that the label had impliedly licensed the Ultra trademark to the publishing company but that, after terminating that license in March 2022, the publishing company had continued to use the trademark in bad faith. The jury in the case agreed, also finding that the Ultra mark was distinctive, that Ultra Music Publishing was in breach of the license and that its use of the Ultra name was \u201clikely to dilute [Ultra] Records\u2019 Ultra trademark.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, the jury also found that Ultra Music Publishing\u2019s use of the trademark wasn\u2019t \u201clikely to cause confusion among [Ultra Music] Publishing\u2019s customers, and that [Ultra] Records suffered no
damage from Publishing\u2019s breach of the license.\u201d As a result, the jury awarded no damages or legal costs to Sony\/Ultra Records.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIndependent music companies are always facing challenges from major corporations, who are threatened more than ever by their increasing success,\u201d said Moxey in a statement sent to Billboard<\/em> following Tuesday\u2019s ruling.\u00a0\u201cWith 13 songwriters nominated across seven categories at this year\u2019s Grammys, and their participation in winning Album of the Year, R&B Album of the Year, and Rap Album of the Year, we are proud of the many\u00a0successes of the songwriters we represent.\u00a0Our roster of talented writers and producers, alongside our executive team will keep doing what they do best \u2014 delivering the exceptional work that has made us who we are. Nothing changes except the name.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSony Music declined to comment on the ruling.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough the trademark case is now resolved, the legal battle between Sony Music and the publisher isn\u2019t over. Last November, Moxey\u2019s Ultra International Music Publishing and Ultra Music Publishing Europe sued Sony Music Entertainment\u00a0and its subsidiaries \u2014 including Ultra Records \u2014 over allegations of copyright infringement, claiming\u00a0Sony\u00a0and its affiliates had been using Ultra Publishing\u2019s compositions without a license.\u00a0Last week, Sony Music Entertainment asked a judge<\/a> to throw out that lawsuit, calling the complaint an act of \u201cretaliation\u201d against the major label for filing its trademark suit against the publishing outfit two years prior. That case is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A U.S. federal court judge has ruled that Ultra Music Publishing must change its name within six months after a jury found that the company breached the \u201cUltra\u201d trademark owned by the Sony Music-owned Ultra Records. Ultra Music Publishing is owned by Patrick Moxey, who also founded Ultra Records in 1995 and sold his remaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}