IP & Media Law Updates

12/24/2024 6:03:50 PM

Weaponizing Trademark Law When Copyright Won’t Work

By Brian Murphy

This case involves two works by the late artist Robert Indiana. The first is the famous “LOVE” image, created by Indiana in the 1960s and...

11/13/2023 1:46:32 PM

By Brian Murphy

When it comes to tech powered by generative AI, we are on the verge of a Cambrian Explosion, a period during which we can expect an...

10/10/2023 7:22:25 PM

By Brian Murphy

An advertiser includes an infringing image in an advertising campaign. (It has been known to happen.) The copyright owner sues, seeking...

9/29/2023 4:31:57 PM

By Melissa Georges

Michael Kelley v. Morning Bee, Inc. and Apple, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-8420-GHW2023 WL 6276690 (S.D.N.Y Sept. 26, 2023) If you work in the...

6/15/2023 4:56:46 PM

By Nicole Bergstrom

How many ways are there to duct tape a banana to a wall? Apparently not too many. Earlier this week, Judge Scola in the Southern...

4/17/2023 2:37:11 PM

By Brian Murphy

Fame came to Henry Joseph Darger (1892-1973) - widely regarded as one of America's greatest self-taught artists - posthumously. In life,...

11/4/2022 5:53:10 PM

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...

11/4/2022 5:53:10 PM

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...

3/31/2022 12:50:21 AM

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...

11/8/2021 1:33:08 PM

By Brian Murphy

Plaintiff Jacob Aaron Leveille is a visual artist who lives in Florida. (You can check out his work on Instagram.) Defendant Ryan Edward...