Dec 31, 2021 Taylor Swift Can't Catch a Break, Break, Break, Break ... By Brian Murphy Taylor Swift just can't ... give it the slip ... skip out on it ... pay no mind to it ... Oh, Jiminy Cricket. I'm just going to say it....
Dec 22, 2021 Instagram Strikes Again: Users Can Now Disable Embedding By Craig Whitney The embedding saga continues. The right to embed another's photo or video that was posted on social media has been one of the most hotly...
Dec 22, 2021 Fox News Can't Dismiss Dominion's $1.6B Defamation Suit By Nicole Bergstrom A recent decision out of the Delaware Superior Court explores the line between breaking news and defamation. Dominion Voting Systems was...
Dec 20, 2021 Vegan Dog Treats and Copyright By Brian Murphy Chef Chloe Coscarelli - the first vegan chef to be crowned a winner on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars - has been waging a years-long,...
Dec 16, 2021 Arial Photographer's Copyright Complaint Survives Motion to Dismiss. By Brian Murphy "Oppenheimer is a professional photographer and, it seems, a professional litigant." And so begins another opinion about another...
Dec 12, 2021 An End-of-Year Update: Borat, Liebowitz, the Houston Astros and the Vineyard Porn Case By Edward H. Rosenthal As we approach the end of 2021, here is an update on a few of the cases and matters I have blogged about over the past year or so. In...
Dec 12, 2021 Copyright dispute over Warhol's "Prince Series" makes it way to the Supreme Court By Caren Decter The copyright battle over Andy’s Warhol’s “Prince Series” has made its way up to the Supreme Court. This week, the Andy Warhol Foundation...
Dec 07, 2021 Ninth Circuit Affirms Holding that "You Raise Me Up" is Not Substantially Similar to "Söknuður" By Brian Murphy In an unpublished, summary decision, a panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s determination that the composition You Raise...
Dec 06, 2021 Like Buttah: A Copyright Dispute Over Ownership of Contributions to a High-End Baking Website By Brian Murphy Thebutterbook.com is (according to the site) a "baking platform with video recipes designed to inspire sweet and delicious creations in...