{"id":2108,"date":"2007-02-13T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/tribecacooptedbydeniro.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:02:13","slug":"tribecacobydeni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/tribecacobydeni.html","title":{"rendered":"TriBeCaCoOpTedByDeNiRo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travis Bickle’s goons are claiming that they have the exclusive right to use the word “Tribeca” in association with entertainment-related goods and services<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tribeca: The term coined to describe the triangle-shaped neighborhood below Canal St. has morphed in recent years, becoming a veritable brand name to signify all that is hip, artsy and quintessentially New York. The name has been slapped on a Subaru S.U.V. model and a line of high-end Lenox dinnerware sold by Bed Bath & Beyond.<\/p>\n

But if Robert DeNiro gets his way in a federal lawsuit filed Jan. 29, the name Tribeca (at least where entertainment is concerned) will mean only one thing — the Tribeca Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The Film Fest and its associated companies have filed suit against the grassroots Web site Tribeca.net and its founder, Chuck Harris, a 34-year resident of the neighborhood. The suit claims that Harris’ cyberspace-based arts organization, Tribeca Network, infringes on the Film Festival’s intellectual property rights because it uses the name Tribeca — a component of several Film Festival trademarks — in conjunction with “entertainment related goods and services.”<\/p>\n

Those goods and services include a series of free “channels” where users can post videos, art and writing; a Web-based radio station called Radio Free Tribeca; and a virtual store that offers a smattering of Tribeca Network merchandise. DeNiro’s lawyers have demanded that Harris turn over his domain names to the Film Festival and provide an accounting of all his site’s revenues.<\/p>\n

“From their lips to god’s ears,” Harris said of the demand for revenue documents. “We have yet to bring in our first penny. We haven’t even sold a t-shirt.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey Johnny Boy, what about the Tribeca Performing Arts Center<\/a>? Tribeca Blues<\/a>? The Tribeca<\/a> club in Manchester, England?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travis Bickle’s goons are claiming that they have the exclusive right to use the word “Tribeca” in association with entertainment-related goods and services: Tribeca: The term coined to describe the triangle-shaped neighborhood below Canal St. has morphed in recent years, becoming a veritable brand name to signify all that is hip, artsy and quintessentially New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap_your_pants_say_yeah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}