IP & Media Law Updates

5/18/2022 1:08:26 PM

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.)...

5/17/2022 8:58:07 PM

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...

5/15/2022 4:00:56 AM

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...

5/11/2022 11:13:25 PM

By Nicole Bergstrom

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