23 Feb, 2022 Are NBA Top Shot Moments Securities? Legal Arguments Take Shape in Class Action Against Dapper Labs That Could Rock the World of NFTs By Jeremy Goldman TLDR: In a putative class action lawsuit against Dapper Labs alleging that NBA Top Shot Moments are unregistered securities, the parties...
22 Feb, 2022 Texas A&M Immune From Copyright Lawsuit Over Unauthorized Publication of Article About the "12th Man" By Brian Murphy 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Texas A&M University's "12th man" tradition. For those who are not familiar with the...
15 Feb, 2022 Jury Agrees with Judge Rakoff in Palin Defamation Case By Nicole Bergstrom Just one day after the judge in Sarah's Palin's case against The New York Times announced that no reasonable jury could return a verdict...
15 Feb, 2022 Judge Rakoff Announces Intention to Dismiss Sarah Palin's Defamation Case Against New York Times Despite Ongoing Jury Deliberation By Nicole Bergstrom In a very surprising move, Judge Jed S. Rakoff indicated that he would dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation case against The New York Times...
15 Feb, 2022 Jeff Koons Accused of Copyright Infringement For Unauthorized Use of a Snake Sculpture in Three Iconic Works By Brian Murphy Plaintiff Michael Hayden is an American who, in the late 1980s, was living la dolce vita in Italy, working as an artist and set designer....
06 Feb, 2022 The Eleventh Circuit's Melodramatic (?) Copyright License Interpretation (About a Telenovela!) By Brian Murphy El Señor de los Cielosthe plot summary, to be my kind of fare. The series tells the story of Aurelio Casillas, a drug lord who has la...
04 Feb, 2022 When shall I file thee? Let me count the days. By Julie Amadeo Recently, parties to a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Opposition learned a hard lesson. In Lumber Liquidators Services, LLC v....
04 Feb, 2022 District Court to Plaintiffs: If You Don't Like Perfect 10 v Amazon, "Appeal to Ninth Circuit"! By Brian Murphy Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer are not fans of Instagram's embedding functionality. And they (and their counsel) are nothing, if not...
03 Feb, 2022 What Do You Get When You Cross an NFT with a Loot Box? By Frances Jensen According to Atari, they are known as “GFTs” or giftable NFTs appearing as gift-wrapped digital boxes. In celebration of the video game...
02 Feb, 2022 Case Update: Jury Awards Cardi B Millions in Defamation Case Against YouTube Blogger By Elizabeth Tuttle Newman With so many high-profile defamation litigations pending across the nation, a recent jury verdict for Cardi B at the conclusion of trial...