IP & Media Law Updates

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May 18, 2022

Hopelessly Devoted to Fair Use: District Court Holds that Vape is Parody of Grease

By Brian Murphy

Sketchworks Comedy is the producer of Vape, a play advertised as a "millennial parody" of Grease. (You can watch Vape's trailer here.)...

May 17, 2022

By Nicole Bergstrom

In a quick update to my recent post on Young Thug's indictment, the New York State Senate has just passed State Senators Hoylman and...

May 15, 2022

By Edward H. Rosenthal

Last week, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo) introduced a bill in the Senate to reduce the length of copyright protection and (mostly) to punish...

May 11, 2022

By Nicole Bergstrom

Rapper Young Thug (given name Jeffery Williams) was arrested earlier this week in Atlanta charged with a litany of crimes, including...