30 Sep, 2024 Trump in a “River of Trouble” for Infringing Copyright in Classic Isaac Hayes Song By Brian Murphy Since 2020, Donald J. Trump and his campaign organization have regularly played the Sam & Dave classic “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at campaign...
09 May, 2024 Breaking News: The Supreme Court Finds Against 3-Year Limit on Copyright Damages By Nicole Bergstrom Edward H. Rosenthal In a decision issued this morning, the Supreme Court rejected the three-year cap on damages in copyright infringement actions espoused by...
28 Mar, 2024 Citing Warhol, 10th Circuit Reverses Tiger King Fair Use Ruling By Caren Decter Back in 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important fair use ruling in Warhol v. Goldsmith—holding that Warhol's use of Goldsmith's...
23 Jan, 2024 French Montana and the Scope of Copyright Protection for Sound Recordings vs. Compositions By Brian Murphy You have to tip your hi-hat to Eddie Lee Richardson, a/k/a Hotwire the Producer, a/k/a the plaintiff in this case. When he was 16 years...
28 Jun, 2023 Repeat Copyright Plaintiff's Infringement Claim Dismissed on Statute of Limitations Grounds By Nicole Bergstrom If you spend any time keeping track of new copyright infringement filings (Am I the only one?), you'll start to notice the same names pop...
12 Jun, 2023 Ye Faces Copyright Suit Over Instagram Post Featuring Photo of Vogue Editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson By Amanda Barkin Ye's (f/k/a Kanye West) "White Lives Matter" t-shirt controversy is back. Last week, the rapper and fashion designer was hit with...
19 May, 2023 U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Warhol--Is The Decision a Serious Blow to Fair Use? By Caren Decter Today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith--ruling against Warhol and imposing some serious...
04 Mar, 2023 The Curious Case of the Statute of Limitations in Copyright By Nicole Bergstrom In the panoply of difficult legal questions, you'd think "What is the statute of limitations for a copyright infringement claim?" would...
22 Nov, 2022 Hold On, We’re Going…Vogue…Or Not By Khasim Lockhart Intro. Do you have a music album on the way? Have you come up with a plan to promote said album? Perhaps you considered releasing a...
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...
15 Feb, 2022 Jeff Koons Accused of Copyright Infringement For Unauthorized Use of a Snake Sculpture in Three Iconic Works By Brian Murphy Plaintiff Michael Hayden is an American who, in the late 1980s, was living la dolce vita in Italy, working as an artist and set designer....
01 Sep, 2021 Do You Need a Copyright License to Post a Floorplan of a Building Online? By Brian Murphy My Apple News feed nourishes me, on a daily basis, with news about politics, the Real Housewives, and beautiful homes that fall into the...
24 Oct, 2020 Battle Lines Drawn Over Font Copyright Protection By Jeremy Goldman A decades-long, quietly simmering battle over the copyrightability of fonts is poised to flare into all-out war in light of recent and...
12 Aug, 2020 Helpless No More? Neil Young Sues Trump Campaign for Use of His Songs By Edward H. Rosenthal Last week, lengendary rocker Neil Young sued Donald Trump's presidential campaign (the "Campaign") for copyright infringement for using...
21 Jul, 2019 Liebowitz Wins Statutory Damage Award -- But It’s Only $750 By Edward H. Rosenthal Following a one-day bench trial, SDNY Judge Geoffrey Woods awarded the plaintiff in a copyright infringement case $750 in statutory...
11 Jul, 2019 $100,000 sanction against Richard Liebowitz and his firm By Edward H. Rosenthal In a decision this week in a case entitled Craig v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al., SDNY Judge J. Paul Oetken denied a motion by Craig to...