25 Jul, 2019 WIPO Moves Forward with Plan to Stem Ad Revenue Flowing to Online Pirates By Kimberly Maynard The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Advisory Committee on Enforcement recently announced progress made on its Building...
24 Jul, 2019 $750 Statutory Damage Award to Liebowitz Client in Otto v. Hearst is Explained by Court By Edward H. Rosenthal In a post last week, I described a recent SDNY case in which the Court found that an amateur photographer had suffered only $100 in...
24 Jul, 2019 Copyright Infringement Claims Against Just Fresh Restaurant Prove Stale By Nicole Bergstrom In Chelko v. Does JF Restaurants, LLC, 3:18-cv-005636 (W.D.N.C.), a District Court for the Western District of North Carolina followed...
24 Jul, 2019 Danish Car Importer Ordered to Pay Damages to Artist Ai Weiwei in Ad Dispute By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz A Danish court recently ordered car distributor Skandinavisk Motor Co. A/S to pay over $200,000 to Ai Weiwei, a contemporary artist and...
21 Jul, 2019 Liebowitz Wins Statutory Damage Award -- But It’s Only $750 By Edward H. Rosenthal Following a one-day bench trial, SDNY Judge Geoffrey Woods awarded the plaintiff in a copyright infringement case $750 in statutory...
19 Jul, 2019 Copyright Small Claims Bill Passes First Test By Craig Whitney Copyright small claims court moves one step closer to reality. Yesterday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Senate...
18 Jul, 2019 Second Circuit Upholds Ban on In-Uber Advertising By Nicole Bergstrom Do you find "Taxi TV" annoying? The Second Circuit does. Reversing a February 2018 decision of the District Court, the Second Circuit...
15 Jul, 2019 Limited Trademark Protection for Puns? By Rachel Santori Holy Shitake! Are puns not entitled to full trademark protection? Romaine calm while we do our best to understand this ruling from the...
12 Jul, 2019 Another Liebowitz sanction! By Edward H. Rosenthal In my post earlier this week, I described how one SDNY judge (Oetken) sanctioned copyright plaintiff's lawyer Richard Liebowitz and his...
11 Jul, 2019 Trump can't block his critics from the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account, says the Second Circuit (and the First Amendment) By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Earlier this week, the Second Circuit held that Donald Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked several Twitter users from his...
11 Jul, 2019 $100,000 sanction against Richard Liebowitz and his firm By Edward H. Rosenthal In a decision this week in a case entitled Craig v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al., SDNY Judge J. Paul Oetken denied a motion by Craig to...
08 Jul, 2019 Brazil to Join International Trademark System By Kimberly Maynard The World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) announced that, effective October 2, 2019, Brazil will join the Protocol Relating...
03 Jul, 2019 Andy Warhol's "Prince Series" Ruled Fair Use By Craig Whitney So-called "appropriation art" is a common subject of copyright infringement disputes. Is the use of another's artistic work to create a...
02 Jul, 2019 And the gold goes to...the amendment to Rule 40! By Christopher Chase In a significant move last week, the International Olympic Committee amended the controversial Bylaw 3 to Rule 40 of the Olympic Charter...