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Originally Posted by Big E
That was a court decision about how a former Playmate could refer to her previous employer (Playboy) and "position" (Playmate). It's like saying, "Hey, she used to be a Bud girl".
You want something similar? Look into WWE vs Chyna or Sable. When they left WWE, they were unable to market themselves with their trademarked WWE names.
How fucking hard is this for people to understand?
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sorry that was to give you an example of the ruling
playboy got sued by WWE because they ran a caption "sable Nude"
they one because they made it clear that it was reno mero the woman who acted as sable in the WWE (WWF)
maxim got sued for using the captions "Sabrina the teenage witch with out a stich of clothing" They lost as well because MAXIM made sure it was clear that Mellisa joan hart (sp) Played the character sabrina the teenage witch.
In both cases the models piggy backed on the fame of the character they played.
Hell the guy who was the bases for the kosmo cramer character on seinfield won the right to call himself the "real" Kosmo Cramer.
I would suggest you talk to a real good entertainment lawyer. She has every right under current law to promote her past acting (playing the character tawnee stone for tawneestone.com) if she wants.
She Just can't I AM Tawnee Stone
She can absolutely promote herself based on the trademark especially because Steve trademark reference explictly states
"The name(s), Portrait(s), and /or signature(s) shown in the mark does not identify a particular living individual"