IP & Media Law Updates

11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM

Capote Charity Claims Copyright

By Matthew Samet

The Trustee for the Truman Capote Literary Trust, established as a charitable trust under the will of prolific author Truman Capote, sued...

8/27/2020 12:00:00 AM

By Mma Afoaku

1932: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - Franklin Roosevelt (first presidential candidate to use a pre-existing popular song for a campaign)...

8/11/2020 11:37:09 PM

By Craig Whitney

Over a year ago, I wrote about how adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings -- filer of literally thousands of copyright infringement...

6/14/2020 7:32:16 PM

By Matthew Samet

Last Thursday, the Ninth Circuit held in an unpublished opinion, Criminal Productions, Inc. v. Cordoba, that a defendant is not entitled...

6/7/2020 12:00:02 AM

By Matthew Samet

On the heels of a stream of copyright lawsuits based on republication of copyrighted images from “embedded” Instagram posts, the U.S....

5/24/2019 1:37:20 AM

By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Following the release of Chris Brown’s video for “Wobble Up,” several artists took to Instagram alleging that the video copied their...