By Scott Graham | March 27, 2020
Judge Laura Taylor Swain rules that when three tattoo artists drew on the arms of LeBron James, Kenyon Martin and Eric Bledsoe, they knew the art was going to be displayed in media, including video games.
By Scott Graham | March 27, 2020
They can take away the NBA, but they can't take away NBA video games—at least not because of unpaid tattoo licenses.
By Angela Morris | March 27, 2020
The complaint filed Thursday, alleging copyright infringement over a Jeffrey Epstein image, joins a growing number of litigation against the Texas-based Infowars.
By Scott Graham | March 24, 2020
Williams-Sonoma (WSI) asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex Tse last week for permission to add copyright claims to its dispute with Amazon, which already includes claims related to trademarks plus design and utility patents.
Daily Business Review | Expert Opinion
By Joshua Whisler | March 24, 2020
Business owners are asking if they have insurance for shutting down due to the coronavirus. Attorney Joshua Whisler reports a New Orleans restaurant is setting up a test case.
By Jenna Greene | March 23, 2020
"The filing calls to mind the sage words of Elihu Root: 'About half of the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop.'"
By Scott Graham | March 23, 2020
Congress will have to try harder if it wants to block states from using sovereign immunity to act as digital pirates, Justice Elena Kagan writes.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 23, 2020
A plaintiffs lawyer bringing an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to halt sales of knockoff unicorn and dragon art got a sharp rebuke from U.S. District Judge Steven Seeger, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. "If there's ever a time when emergency motions should be limited to genuine emergencies, now's the time," he wrote.
By Bob Clarida | March 20, 2020
This article focuses on the Ninth Circuit's still-contested holding in late 2018 that the scope of copyright in an unpublished pre-1978 musical composition is determined solely by the content of the deposit copy on file with the U.S. Copyright Office for that work.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert W. Clarida and Robert J. Bernstein | March 19, 2020
For the past five years, the copyright bar and the music industry have carefully followed the many twists and turns of 'Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin', a potentially monumental infringement case. On March 9, 2020, a unanimous en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit resolved some thorny issues involving substantial similarity and copyright scope that will be important for future litigants. In their Copyright Law column, Robert W. Clarida and Robert J. Bernstein review some of the main takeaways from decision.
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