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"BOOM! Studios could face a legal dispute over its recently rebranded children&amp;#039;s imprint Kaboom! Following the unveiling of the firm&amp;#039;s new subsidiary, Image co-founder Rob Liefeld laid claim to the publishing rights to the title &amp;#039;Kaboom&amp;#039;. Liefeld&amp;#039;s now defunct Awesome Comics studio previously published a series by Jeph Loeb and Jeff Matsuda titled KABOOM. It was compiled as a hardcover and trade paperback last year. According to his Twitter account, Liefeld is planning legal action against BOOM! &amp;quot;My lawyers are drafting a complaint. Busy week. Shouldn&amp;#039;t be an issue since we released the KABOOM! HC and trade last year,&amp;quot; he wrote. Speaking to CBR, comic book legal expert Brian Cronin explained that the Image co-founder may have a case for trademark infringement as a comic book and an imprint sharing the same name could create a &amp;quot;likelihood of confusion&amp;quot; among readers. &amp;quot;While it certainly isn&amp;#039;t absolutely clear, I think it is fairly safe to say that a line of comic books sharing the same name as an in-print comic book is close enough to create a likelihood of confusion, particularly when both comics are aimed at the same specific subset of the comic book market (younger consumers),&amp;quot; he added. BOOM! Studios is yet to comment on the matter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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