28 Dec, 2022 Works Published in 1927 Enter the Public Domain in the U.S. By Brian Murphy In 1927, Calvin Coolidge was president, the first commercial flight of Pan American Airways took off (leaving Key West bound for Havana),...
26 Dec, 2022 DC Circuit Denies Injunction to Technologists Alleging DMCA Violates Their 1st Amendment Rights By Brian Murphy This case is about a security researcher and an inventor who are concerned that the pursuit of their professional goals will subject them...
20 Dec, 2022 Yuga Labs wins key victory in NFT infringement case against Ryder Ripps By Jeremy Goldman On December 16, 2022, the United District Court for the Central District of California handed NFT powerhouse Yuga Labs a decisive victory...
19 Dec, 2022 Supreme Court May Weigh in on Third-Party Content Scraping Case By Saphya Council Since our last update in the ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC case, Genius filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S....
12 Dec, 2022 Buzzfeed's Publication of Influencer's Motorcycle Accident Pics is a Fair Use By Brian Murphy Tiffany Mitchell (@tifforeli), an influencer who currently has just under 200,000 followers on Instagram, likes to ride a beemer....
22 Nov, 2022 On Remand from the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Affirms Validity of an Inaccurate Copyright Registration By Glenda Dieuveille The Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of Unicolors, Inc., finding that the company has a valid copyright registration despite a mistake in...
22 Nov, 2022 Hold On, We’re Going…Vogue…Or Not By Khasim Lockhart Intro. Do you have a music album on the way? Have you come up with a plan to promote said album? Perhaps you considered releasing a...
18 Nov, 2022 ICYDK: Music NFTs Also Generate Royalties By Saphya Council The newest case against American DJ 3LAU is very timely, with “music NFTs” becoming a growing trend in the music industry. “Music NFTs”...
17 Nov, 2022 Copyright, Clearances and Concert Recordings: ABKCO Music, Inc. v. Sagan By Brian Murphy Bill Graham was one of the great concert promoters of the twentieth century. During a career that spanned from the late 1960s until his...
04 Nov, 2022 Cardi B Prevails in Lawsuit Against the Man with the Tiger (and Snake) Tattoo By Brian Murphy Certain cases will forever be part of the legal seminars and trainings I do for clients. This is one of them. We have blogged previously...
04 Nov, 2022 Cardi B Prevails in Lawsuit Against the Man with the Tiger (and Snake) Tattoo By Brian Murphy Certain cases will forever be part of the legal seminars and trainings I do for clients. This is one of them. We have blogged previously...
03 Nov, 2022 New York Post-Mortem Right of Publicity Update: Here is a List of the Registered Dead People By Edward H. Rosenthal For many years, there was a lively debate in New York as to whether the state should extend protection for an individual's right of...
03 Nov, 2022 Case Update: NFT “Insider Trading” Case Allowed to Proceed Against Former OpenSea Employee By Zach Lewis Jeremy Goldman On October 21, 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order denying a former OpenSea...
01 Nov, 2022 (Another!) Litigation From The World of Chess By Edward H. Rosenthal This post is about the recently filed defamation case brought by a 19-year old American chess player named Hans Moke Niemann against...
28 Oct, 2022 Court Finds Holes in Plaintiff's Case Alleging Copyright Infringement of Lace Designs By Brian Murphy Plaintiff Klauber Brothers has been making lace for more than 150 years. Defendant Badgley Mischka produces (among other things) bridal...
27 Oct, 2022 Drizly and CEO Face FTC Order for Cybersecurity Breach By Saphya Council Rick Borden Recently, the FTC issued a proposed order against Drizly and its CEO James Cory Rellas for conducting unfair information security...