Monday, July 28, 2025

Hara v. Netflix (9th Cir. - July 28, 2025)

It's not news to me to discover that I'm not hip. Indeed, it's fairly self-evident.

As a non-hipster, until today, I definitely did not know about the Netflix animated series, Q-Force, which is "about a group of underappreciated queer spies who must save the planet from various dangers." Each of the characters in the series is apparently based on a real person, and one of those real people -- a drag queen in West Hollywood -- later sued for trademark infringement.

The Ninth Circuit opinion that resolves this appeal contains tons of details about the series and some of the underlying real people. Plus screenshots. Plus pictures of the real people.

So I'm hipper today than I was yesterday.

But definitely still not hip. At all.