31 Mar, 2022 Could This Really Be The End? Liebowitz Law Firm Ends Operations! By Tyler Maulsby In January, my Professional Responsibility and Ethics partner Tyler Maulsby and I blogged about whether and how Richard Liebowitz’s...
31 Mar, 2022 Does VARA Prevent an Institution From Obscuring a Visual Work That Some People Find Offensive? By Edward H. Rosenthal What happens if an institution decides to obscure a work of art on the ground that that it is offensive and unworthy of continued...
30 Mar, 2022 Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against German Game Developer under CDA Section 230 Immunity By Emma Smizer Sean Kane A federal court in Washington has dismissed all claims against German-based game developer, InnoGames, brought by a player of InnoGames’...
30 Mar, 2022 A Copyright Mystery: Who Owns ARTY's Contributions to Remix of OneRepublic's "I Lived"? By Brian Murphy This case involves (1) a remix of a hit song by a popular DJ, (2) an analysis of the different compositional elements included in that...
29 Mar, 2022 Arrests for NFT "Rug Pull" Highlight Legal Risks for Creators By Jeremy Goldman Zach Lewis On the heels of President Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, the Department of Justice...
28 Mar, 2022 DOJ's New Guidance on Website Accessibility Fails to Resolve Critical Issues By Caren Decter On March 18, 2022, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") published guidance on website accessibility. The guidance focuses on how state and...
28 Mar, 2022 Update: Supreme Court Will Hear Fair Use Dispute Over Warhol's "Prince Series" By Caren Decter This is an update to my prior post on the long-running copyright battle over Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series.” Today, the Supreme Court...
23 Mar, 2022 Migrating Online Forum to New Platform to Avoid Russian Censorship Qualifies as Fair Use By Brian Murphy Davis Square in Somerville, Massachusetts, is a groovy place. Between 2010 and 2017, a group of its residents used the Russian-owned...
18 Mar, 2022 Russian State-Sponsored TV Network's Attempt to Dismiss Copyright Lawsuit On Fair Use Grounds Denied By Benjamin G. Murray TV-Novosti, a non-profit operating the Russian state-controlled RT(formerly Russia Today) television networks and 38 associated RT...
17 Mar, 2022 High School Softball Team's Tweet of Inspirational Passage Qualifies For Fair Use, Says CA5 By Brian Murphy We have met sports psychologist Dr. Keith Bell before. (See this post.) In 1982, Dr. Bell published Winning Isn’t Normal, a 72-page...
15 Mar, 2022 How Does That Song Go Again? Lyrics Database's Claims Alleging "Scraping" in Violation of TOS Preempted by Copyright By Brian Murphy Be honest. Were you as puzzled as I the first time you (mis)heard Taylor Swift, in "Blank Space," singing about “all the lonely Starbucks...
14 Mar, 2022 Dua Lipa Faces Dual Lawsuits For Hit Song ‘Levitating’ By Khasim Lockhart For those who do not appreciate a good pun, I apologize for the title of this article. Even if you don't appreciate a good pun, I’m sure...
11 Mar, 2022 Victory is in Katy Perry's Veins: Gray v. Perry Affirmed by CA9 By Brian Murphy The Ninth Circuit has affirmed U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder's "thorough" decision in which she ruled that the song "Dark Horse"...
11 Mar, 2022 Winding Down The Wild West: What Biden’s Executive Order Means for Digital Assets By Zach Lewis Yesterday, President Biden signed a highly anticipated Executive Order on “Ensuring [the] Responsible Development of Digital Assets.”...
10 Mar, 2022 What Does it Take to Dismiss a Copyright Complaint in the Ninth Circuit? By Brian Murphy Within ten days of each other, two Ninth Circuit panels took up the question of whether complaints alleging copyright infringement had...
10 Mar, 2022 Artesian Builds CEO Apologizes for Sweepstakes-Related Criticism By Saphya Council The CEO of PC build company Artesian Builds was under fire last week for comments he made about a company promotion during a livestreamed...