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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 

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United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 15-3728

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Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.; Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Inc.; Turner

Entertainment Co.

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiffs - Appellees

v.

X One X Productions, doing business as X One X Movie Archives, Inc.;

A.V.E.L.A., Inc., doing business as Art & Vintage Entertainment Licensing

Agency; Art-Nostalgia.com, Inc.; Leo Valencia

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendants - Appellants

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Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis

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 Submitted: September 21, 2016

 Filed: November 1, 2016 

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Before LOKEN, GRUENDER, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

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GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.

X One X Productions, A.V.E.L.A., Inc., Art-Nostalgia.com, Inc., and Leo

Valencia (collectively, “AVELA”) appeal a permanent injunction prohibiting them

from licensing images from the films Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, as

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well as the animated short films featuring cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. The

district court1

 issued the permanent injunction after granting summary judgment in

favor of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Inc., and

Turner Entertainment Co. (collectively, “Warner”) on their claim that AVELA

infringed their trademarks and engaged in unfair competition by licensing iconic

pictures and phrases from the films. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Warner holds registered copyrights in the films Gone with the Wind, The

Wizard of Oz, and Tom and Jerry cartoons, and it has asserted both registered and

common law trademarks in the images, characters, words, names, phrases, and

symbols related to these films. AVELA obtained restored versions of movie posters

and lobby cards for the films, and from these publicity materials it extracted images

of famous characters, including Dorothy, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow

from The Wizard of Oz, Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind,

and Tom and Jerry. AVELA licenses these images for use on a wide variety of

consumer products, from shirts, lunch boxes, and playing cards to three-dimensional

figurines, water globes, and action figures. Warner filed suit against AVELA in 2006,

asserting copyright and trademark infringement claims under the Copyright Act,

Lanham Act, and state law. The case is now in its second appeal before this court. 

The first appeal concerned Warner’s copyright claims. On March 20, 2009, the

district court granted Warner summary judgment on its copyright infringement claims

and entered a permanent injunction prohibiting AVELA from using any of the

publicity material images in any way except for exact duplication of publicity

materials in the public domain. AVELA appealed, and this court affirmed in part and

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The Honorable Henry E. Autrey, United States District Court for the Eastern

District of Missouri.

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reversed in part, upholding summary judgment and most of the injunction. Warner

Bros. Entm’t, Inc. v. X One X Productions, et al., 644 F.3d 584, 604 (8th Cir. 2011). 

In that decision, we divided Appellants’ products into three categories: (1) products

reproducing “one image from an item of publicity material as an identical twodimensional image”; (2) products “that each juxtapose an image extracted from an

item of publicity material with another image extracted from elsewhere in the

publicity materials, or with a printed phrase from the book underlying the subject film,

to create a new composite work”; and (3) products “that each extend an image

extracted from an item of publicity material into three dimensions.” Warner Bros.,

644 F.3d at 602-03. We determined that while products in category one did not

constitute copyright infringement, products falling into categories two and three did

constitute copyright infringement. Id. We vacated the permanent injunction with

respect to products in the first category and remanded the case to the district court. 

Id. at 604.

On remand, Warner requested statutory damages for its copyright claims,

requested attorneys’ fees, and moved for summary judgment on its trademark

infringement and unfair competition claims. In its final order, the district court

granted statutory damages under the Copyright Act in the amount of $10,000 per

infringed copyright (257 copyrights for a total award of $2,570,000). The district

court also granted summary judgment on both the trademark infringement and unfair

competition claims, finding that Warner holds registered trademarks in words and

phrases from the films and common law trademarks in the film characters. It issued

a permanent injunction prohibiting AVELA from licensing any images or phrases

from the films or cartoons, with the exception of exact reproductions of publicity

materials in the public domain. In a separate order, the district court granted Warner’s

motion for attorneys’ fees but ordered supplemental briefing regarding the amount. 

The amount of attorneys’ fees remains undetermined. AVELA appeals the entry of the

attorneys’ fees, statutory damages, summary judgment, and permanent injunction.

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II. DISCUSSION

Although we do not have jurisdiction to hear the portion of the appeal relating

to attorneys’ fees, we have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to hear the remainder

of the appeal. Because the amount of attorneys’ fees remains unresolved, the order

granting attorneys’ fees is not final. See Dieser v. Cont’l Cas. Co., 440 F.3d 920, 924

(8th Cir. 2006) (“Because the August 2004 order expressly left unresolved amounts

of additional statutory penalties, pre-judgment interest and attorneys’ fees and costs,

and the March 2005 order called for further submissions from the parties to determine

the method of calculation . . . these orders could not reasonably be believed to be final

within the meaning of § 1291.”). However, under the Supreme Court’s “bright-line

rule . . . that a decision on the merits is a ‘final decision’ for purposes of § 1291

whether or not there remains for adjudication a request for attorneys’ fees attributable

to the case,” Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co., 486 U.S. 196, 202-03 (1988), we

have jurisdiction to hear the remainder of the appeal. See Maristuen v. Nat’l States

Ins. Co., 57 F.3d 673, 677-78 (8th Cir. 1995) (explaining that where a district court

issues two separate judgments, one of which leaves attorneys’ fees undetermined and

one of which addresses the merits, Budinich controls and the court has jurisdiction

over the merits appeal).

A. Statutory Damages

AVELA argues that the district court violated its Seventh Amendment right to

a jury trial by awarding statutory damages under the Copyright Act. AVELA

alternatively contends that the amount of statutory damages does not comport with

due process.

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1. Seventh Amendment

AVELA raises for the first time on appeal the claim that the district court’s

failure to submit the question of damages to the jury violated the Seventh

Amendment. We do not ordinarily “address issues that a party raises for the first time

on appeal and failed to raise in the district court.” Int’l Bhd. of Elec. Workers, Local

Union No. 545 v. Hope Elec. Corp., 380 F.3d 1084, 1096 (8th Cir. 2004). Although

AVELA made a jury demand in its answer, it did not request a jury in its

memorandum in opposition to Warner’s damages request or otherwise object to the

district court determining damages without a jury. Indeed, AVELA specifically

suggested a damages amount to the district court in the event it granted Warner’s

request. Moreover, AVELA’s motion to amend the judgment challenged the district

court’s decision as controverting the evidence and as inconsistent with this court’s

decision in the first appeal, not as violating the Seventh Amendment. Claiming that

the amount of damages does not conform to statutory authority and a superior court’s

instruction is wholly distinct from claiming that the district court inappropriately

structured the underlying proceeding. As a result, AVELA’s Seventh Amendment

claim is not properly before us, and we decline to consider it.

2. Due Process

AVELA alternatively argues that the $2,570,000 statutory damages award is

disproportionate to the offense, insufficiently reasoned, and in violation of this court’s

ruling in the previous appeal. AVELA fails to establish that this is the case.

We review damages awarded under the Copyright Act for clear error. 

Pfanenstiel Architects, Inc. v. Chouteau Petroleum Co., 978 F.2d 430, 432 (8th Cir.

1992). “The Supreme Court long ago declared that damages awarded pursuant to a

statute violate due process only if they are ‘so severe and oppressive as to be wholly

disproportioned to the offense and obviously unreasonable.’” Capitol Records, Inc.

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v. Thomas-Rasset, 692 F.3d 899, 907 (8th Cir. 2012) (quoting St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry.

Co. v. Williams, 251 U.S. 63, 67 (1919)).

The district court’s award of $10,000 per infringed work is not clearly

erroneous. In Capitol Records, this court upheld a statutory damages award of $9,250

per infringed work (for a total of $222,000) as consistent with due process,

emphasizing the intentionally discretionary nature of statutory damages. 692 F.3d at

907. Although “[t]he absolute amount of the award, not just the amount per violation,

is relevant to whether the award is so severe and oppressive as to be wholly

disproportioned to the offense and obviously unreasonable,” id. at 910 (quoting

Williams, 251 U.S. at 67), the total award of $2.57 million in the present case is not

obviously unreasonable. As the district court explained, “This case has had a tortured

and laborious discovery history,” in which AVELA’s intransigence rendered

calculating actual damages impossible due to missing or inaccurate records. 

Importantly, the district court noted that over the many years of litigation (now a

decade), AVELA did not cease the infringing activity at any time. That the district

court therefore considered a substantial damages award necessary to deter future

infringement and provide sufficient restitution to the copyright holder is not clearly

erroneous. See F.W. Woolworth Co. v. Contemporary Arts, 344 U.S. 228, 232-33

(1952). Additionally, while the total award in this case far exceeds the total award in

Capitol Records, the defendant in that case was an individual sharing music files on

a peer-to-peer network. Capitol Records, 692 F.3d at 901. AVELA’s activities are

far more extensive, and the amount awarded per infringed work is well within the

statutory range of $750 to $30,000. 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1). As a result, the award in

this case is not obviously unreasonable.2

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Although AVELA contends that the district court erred by failing to cite

comparable damages awards from other cases, nothing in the applicable precedent

requires the district court to justify its ruling in this manner. See, e.g., Capitol

Records, 692 F.3d at 906-10 (analyzing whether an award of statutory damages

comported with due process without considering awards in other cases).

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Finally, the statutory damages award does not contravene this court’s decision 

in the prior appeal. The distinctions we drew between categories of activities that do

and do not constitute copyright infringement, see Warner Bros., 644 F.3d at 602-604,

do not bear on how a court determines the appropriate amount of statutory damages

for those activities that did constitute infringement. The Copyright Act structures

awards of statutory damages on the basis of each copyrighted work infringed, not on

the basis of each instance of infringement. See 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1) (“[T]he

copyright owner may elect . . . to recover . . . an award of statutory damages for all

infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work . . . in a sum of not

less than $750 or more than $30,000 as the court considers just.”). We affirmed in the

prior appeal that AVELA infringed each of Warner’s copyrights in The Wizard of Oz,

Gone With the Wind, and Tom and Jerry cartoons in at least some respect. See

Warner Bros., 644 F.3d at 602-04. Accordingly, the district court did not contravene

this court’s decision by awarding damages on a per work basis.

B. Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition

The court reviews the district court’s order granting summary judgment de

novo. Seymour v. City of Des Moines, 519 F.3d 790, 795 (8th Cir. 2008); Omni

Behavioral Health v. Miller, 285 F.3d 646, 650 (8th Cir. 2002). “Summary judgment

is appropriate when the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving

party presents no genuine issue of material fact and the moving party is entitled to

judgment as a matter of law.” Coates v. Powell, 639 F.3d 471, 475 (8th Cir. 2011).

1. Judicial Admission and Judicial Estoppel

AVELA argues that Warner made a judicial admission that it would not need

to pursue its trademark and unfair competition claims if it prevailed on its copyright

claims. AVELA also maintains that judicial estoppel applies to this statement. After

the district court granted summary judgment on Warner’s copyright claims, Warner

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stated the following in its memorandum in support of its claim for damages and

request for entry of final judgment:

If the grant of summary judgment on the copyright claim is appealed and

subsequently affirmed by the appellate court, Plaintiffs will not need to

pursue the other pending claims in the district court. A final judgment

on the copyright claim in this case could prevent both this court and the

appellate court from having to decide the remaining claims in Plaintiffs’

complaint.

This statement does not constitute a judicial admission. A judicial admission

is a formal admission before a court that “acts as a substitute for evidence in that it

does away with the need for evidence in regard to the subject matter of the judicial

admission.” State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Worthington, 405 F.2d 683, 686 (8th

Cir. 1968). For that reason, “judicial admissions are binding for the purpose of the

case in which the admissions are made including appeals.” State Farm, 405 F.2d at

686. Warner’s statement did not admit anything, much less anything of evidentiary

value. Rather, it made a conditional prediction that if the district court rendered final

judgment on its copyright claims and the Eighth Circuit affirmed that judgment, then

it could prevent the courts from having to consider the trademark claims because

Warner would not need to pursue them to obtain the relief it wanted. This does not

admit anything or add evidentiary value. Accordingly, the doctrine of judicial

admissions does not bar Warner’s trademark claims.

Likewise, judicial estoppel does not apply. Judicial estoppel “generally

prevents a party from prevailing in one phase of a case on an argument and then

relying on a contradictory argument to prevail in another phase.” New Hampshire v.

Maine, 532 U.S. 742, 749 (2001) (quoting Pegram v. Herdrich, 530 U.S. 211, 227 n.8

(2000)). Judicial estoppel is based on three factors. “First, a party’s later position

must be ‘clearly inconsistent’ with its earlier position.” New Hampshire, 532 U.S. at

750 (quoting United States v. Hook, 195 F.3d 299, 306 (7th Cir. 1999)). Second, the

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party must have persuaded the court to accept the earlier position, and the court would

appear to have been misled if the party is allowed to make the contradictory argument. 

New Hampshire, 532 U.S. at 750. Finally, “[a] third consideration is whether the

party seeking to assert an inconsistent position would derive an unfair advantage or

impose an unfair detriment on the opposing party if not estopped.” Id. at 751.

Warner’s statement does not fulfill these criteria. First, Warner’s present

position is not clearly inconsistent with its prior statement. Since Warner did not

receive all the relief it wanted under copyright law, see Warner, 644 F.3d at 604

(reversing in part), it is not acting inconsistently by pursuing the rest of the relief it

wanted under trademark law. Second, Warner’s statement is not an argument it

persuaded the district court to accept. The statement supplies a possible ancillary

benefit of judgment in Warner’s favor and by the statement’s own terms depends on

the actions of a court other than the one to which the statement was made. The district

court could hardly have relied upon such a statement; indeed, the lower court’s

resulting order does not even mention it. Finally, Warner derives no unfair advantage

and imparts no unfair detriment by pursuing its trademark claims. AVELA may not

like Warner’s trademark claims, but allowing them to proceed does not treat AVELA

unfairly. On the contrary, dismissing Warner’s trademark claims based on the

statement in question would treat Warner unfairly by forcing it to adhere to a

conditional prediction when the necessary condition did not occur. Accordingly,

judicial estoppel does not apply.

2. Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

AVELA next contends that Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.,

539 U.S. 23 (2003), prevents Warner’s trademark claims. In Dastar, the Supreme

Court addressed a claim for trademark infringement under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act,

which creates liability for the use of, inter alia, “any false designation of origin.” Id.

at 25, 30 n.4 (quoting 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1)). Fox owned the copyright in the

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television series “Crusade in Europe,” which was based on General Eisenhower’s

book of the same name. Fox allowed the copyright to expire, but it later reacquired

the television rights in Eisenhower’s book, including the exclusive right to distribute

the television series on video. Dastar released a video set called “World War II

Campaigns in Europe,” which incorporated the content of the Crusade television

series with minimal modifications. Denying Fox’s trademark claims, the Supreme

Court determined that the term “origin” as used in § 43(a) “refers to the producer of

the tangible goods that are offered for sale, and not to the author of any idea, concept,

or communication embodied in those goods. . . . To hold otherwise would be akin to

finding that § 43(a) created a species of perpetual patent and copyright . . . .” Dastar,

539 U.S. at 37. 

Warner’s asserted trademarks in the characters from the films and cartoons do

not run afoul of Dastar. The district court found and AVELA did not dispute that

Warner holds registered trademarks in iconic phrases and names from the films and

has used the character images for trademark purposes on a host of consumer goods for

many years. Images of the film actors in character and signature phrases from the

films are not communications, concepts, or ideas that the consumer goods embody as

Dastar defines these terms. Products marketed under AVELA’s licenses employ

iconic film characters’ pictures to associate the products with Warner’s films, not to

copy the film itself. Accordingly, these are trademark claims, not disguised copyright

claims, and Dastar does not bar them.

3. Functionality and Fair Use

AVELA further contends that Warner cannot maintain a viable trademark claim

because either (1) the key elements of the trademark are functional, or (2) AVELA’s

use of the trademarks constitutes fair use. However, AVELA has waived these

defenses.

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Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(c) provides that a party must affirmatively plead affirmative

defenses. While failure to plead an affirmative defense is not necessarily fatal in all

circumstances, the affirmative defense must at least be raised before the trial court. 

United States ex rel. Kraxberger v. Kansas City Power and Light Co., 756 F.3d 1075,

1082 (8th Cir. 2014) (explaining that “technical failure to comply with Rule 8(c) is not

fatal” when the defense “is raised in the trial court in a manner that does not result in

unfair surprise”) (quotations omitted) (emphasis added). Trademark fair use is an

affirmative defense. 15 U.S.C. § 1115(b)(4); KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting

Impression I, Inc., 543 U.S. 111, 118 (2004). Likewise, functionality is an affirmative

defense. 15 U.S.C. § 1115(b)(8). However, AVELA did not raise either functionality

or trademark fair use at all in the trial court. While AVELA did assert copyright fair

use as an affirmative defense, trademark fair use and copyright fair use are distinct

defenses for distinct claims. These defenses derive from wholly separate statutory

provisions, which are constructed differently and formulated specifically for each

respective subject area. Compare 15 U.S.C. § 1115(b)(4) (trademark fair use under

the Lanham Act) with 17 U.S.C. § 107 (copyright fair use under the Copyright Act). 

Neither functionality nor trademark fair use appear in any of AVELA’s pleadings or

in its motion for summary judgment. Accordingly, AVELA has waived these

defenses.

4. Likelihood of Confusion

AVELA also contends that summary judgment was erroneously granted

because “the likelihood of confusion factors are quintessential jury questions.” On the

contrary, district courts can and have decided likelihood of confusion by both bench

trials and summary judgment. See, e.g., Kemp v. Bumble Bee Seafoods, Inc., 398 F.3d

1049, 1053-54 (8th Cir. 2005) (reviewing district court’s application of likelihood of

confusion factors at bench trial for clear error); Davis v. Walt Disney Co., 430 F.3d

901, 902-03 (8th Cir. 2005) (reviewing district court’s determination of likelihood of

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confusion on summary judgment). Accordingly, the likelihood of confusion does not

always require a jury trial.

Moreover, on the merits, the district court did not err by rendering summary

judgment on the likelihood of confusion. Although this court reviews likelihood of

confusion on summary judgment de novo, “[f]actual disputes regarding a single factor

are insufficient to support the reversal of summary judgment unless they tilt the entire

balance in favor of such a finding.” Davis, 430 F.3d at 903 (quoting Duluth NewsTribune v. Mesabi Publ’g Co., 84 F.3d 1093, 1096 (8th Cir. 1996)). Likelihood of

confusion turns on six factors: 

1) the strength of the plaintiff’s mark; 2) the similarity between the

plaintiff’s and defendant’s marks; 3) the degree to which the allegedly

infringing product competes with the plaintiff’s goods; 4) the alleged

infringer’s intent to confuse the public; 5) the degree of care reasonably

expected of potential customers, and 6) evidence of actual confusion.

Davis, 430 F.3d at 903 (citing SquirtCo v. Seven-Up Co., 628 F.2d 1086, 1091 (8th

Cir. 1980)). AVELA challenges the strength of the marks and actual confusion. 

AVELA’s argument regarding strength of the marks is largely self-defeating, asserting

that the film titles and images are descriptive because they “immediately alert the

purchaser to the nature of the product, i.e., that it is from” Warner’s films. This aptly

describes a strong trademark, immediately associating the product with Warner. 

Additionally, “actual confusion is not essential to a finding of trademark

infringement,” but it is a kind of proof a court may consider. SquirtCo., 628 F.2d at

1091. Given the strength of the other factors the district court considered to weigh in

favor of Warner,3

 the lack of evidence of actual confusion does not even approach

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The district court found that the marks are strong given the films’ popularity

over sixty years, that AVELA engages in direct competition using identical marks,

and that consumers cannot distinguish between Warner’s products and AVELA’s

products by taking reasonable care. AVELA has not raised anything else to dispute

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“tilt[ing] the entire balance in favor” of reversal. Davis, 430 F.3d at 903. As a result,

the district court did not err by rendering summary judgment.

5. Permanent Injunction

Next, AVELA contends that the permanent injunction violates Federal Rules

of Civil Procedure 52(a)(2) and 65(d). AVELA raises this issue for the first time on

appeal despite an extensive opportunity to raise the issue before the district court. The

district court entered its original judgment on March 31, 2014. Warner filed a motion

to amend the judgment, and in its June 2014 memorandum in opposition, AVELA

proposed an alternative amended judgment that provided injunctive relief with the

same generality as the district court’s final order in October 2015. Accordingly,

AVELA not only was well-aware of the injunction’s generality for over a year and

failed to challenge it, but also would have agreed to a judgment with the same failings

it now tries to challenge. Therefore, in accordance with International Brotherhood

of Electric Workers, 380 F.3d at 1096 (8th Cir. 2004), we will “not address issues that

a party raises for the first time on appeal and failed to raise in the district court.” Id.

Alternatively, AVELA contends that Warner did not show success on the merits

or a threat of irreparable harm. AVELA bases the former argument solely on its

arguments on the merits of the trademark claims and the possibility that this court may

agree with them. Since we addressed these arguments above and did not agree with

them, Warner has shown success on the merits. AVELA’s argument on the threat of

irreparable harm consists only of the undeveloped statement that no evidence shows

a threat of irreparable harm. However, a finding that likelihood of confusion exists

results in a presumption that a threat of irreparable harm exists. See Calvin Klein

Cosmetics Corp. v. Lenox Laboratories, Inc., 815 F.2d 500, 505 (8th Cir. 1987); Black

Hills Jewelry Mfg. Co. v. Gold Rush, Inc., 633 F.2d 746, 753–54 (8th Cir. 1980)

these findings.

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(holding that a finding of “tendency to deceive”—synonymous with “likely to

confuse” under 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)—demonstrates irreparable harm). As a result, we

reject AVELA’s arguments against the permanent injunction.

6. Consistency with Prior Appeal

Finally, AVELA argues that the district court acted inconsistently with this

court’s ruling in the prior appeal by granting relief on the trademark and unfair

competition claims without considering the category of products we deemed not to

infringe Warner’s copyrights. This contention conflates copyright law with trademark

law. Copyright law and trademark law are distinct from each other, as AVELA admits

in its Dastar argument. As a result, an action that does not infringe a copyrights may

still infringe a trademark. Therefore, whether the products in question infringed

Warner’s copyrights has no bearing on whether the products infringe Warner’s

trademarks. Even if they did, the final injunction made an exception for the

reproduction of publicity materials in the public domain in their entirety and without

alteration. Accordingly, the district court’s order is not inconsistent with our prior

holding.

III. CONCLUSION

For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the district court’s grant of statutory

damages, summary judgment, and permanent injunction.

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