19 Mar, 2021 The Halal Guys Files Trademark Infringement Suit Against The Halal Girls By Kristina D'Angelo If you have lived or worked in New York City, it is likely that you have at least once walked past the long line of customers often found...
15 Mar, 2021 Taylor Swift Fights Back! By Edward H. Rosenthal Last month, I blogged about a suit filed against Taylor Swift by Evermore Park, a Utah-based "immersive experience theme park." That...
15 Mar, 2021 Implied Copyright Licenses in the Digital World: Blogs, RSS Feeds, and Aggregators By Brian Murphy Plaintiff MidlevelU operates a website for midlevel healthcare providers (e.g., nurse practitioners and physician assistants) that...
13 Mar, 2021 NY's new anti-SLAPP law seems to be crushing it, with courts striking libel suits left and right By Jeremy Goldman In November 2020, I blogged about New York's passage of an updated anti-SLAPP statute that provides powerful protections to defendants...
13 Mar, 2021 Photographer's Claim that Pinterest is a Contributory Infringer Fails By Brian Murphy It is fair to say that photographer and digital artist Harold Davis is no fan of Pinterest, the image sharing social media platform...
11 Mar, 2021 A Primer on NFTs and Intellectual Property By Jeremy Goldman Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), the latest cryptographic craze, have exploded into the world of media and entertainment, creating new markets...
10 Mar, 2021 The Right to Use EMOJI By Karen Hsieh While Gen-Z and millennials are arguing about the supposed death of the laugh-cry emoji, German company Emoji Company GmbH and toy...
09 Mar, 2021 Print-on-Demand Website Not Liable for Direct Copyright Infringement Due to Lack of Volitional Conduct By Brian Murphy Defendant Pixels operates an online marketplace that enables artists to sell "print on demand" merchandise on which their artwork is...
07 Mar, 2021 Stick a Fork(lift) in It: Court Refuses to Dismiss Copyright Case About Construction Vehicle-Themed Cutlery By Brian Murphy I admire anyone who can set a proper table. No matter how much time and effort I devote to the task, my own results are lackluster,...
05 Mar, 2021 Developer Issues DMCA Takedown Notice to Remove Its Own Game from Steam, Claiming the Publisher Pirated the Game By Frances Jensen Frogwares, a Ukraine-based indie developer with a subsidiary in Ireland, is in an ongoing legal dispute with France-based publisher Nacon...