1/29/2025 1:19:17 PM Second Circuit Clarifies When Content Moderation Risks DMCA Safe Harbor By Jeremy Goldman The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently published an important decision in Capitol Records, LLC v. Vimeo, LLC (Jan. 13,...
5/9/2024 4:01:02 PM 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...
3/28/2024 8:23:46 PM 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...
6/28/2023 6:47:22 PM 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...
6/12/2023 8:58:35 PM 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...
5/19/2023 2:09:18 PM 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...
3/4/2023 3:16:35 PM 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...
11/22/2022 7:55:28 PM 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...
3/18/2022 3:10:26 PM 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...
10/24/2020 12:00:00 AM 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...
8/12/2020 2:52:09 PM 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...
7/21/2019 12:00:00 AM 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...
7/11/2019 12:00:00 AM $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...