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...
29 Sep, 2023 Supreme Court to Weigh in on Damages for Copyright Infringement By Nicole Bergstrom Back in March I posted about the deepening Circuit Court split on how far back a plaintiff could look for damages in a copyright...
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...
17 Apr, 2023 Who Owns Artist Henry Joseph Darger's Copyrights: His Landlords or His Distant Cousins? 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,...
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...
03 Mar, 2023 Could the Everly Brothers' Battle Over Authorship of "Cathy's Clown" be Over (Finally)? By Brian Murphy This is an update to our prior post Forever(ly) Brothers, Forever(ly) Rivals: The Everly Brothers' Epic Battle Over Authorship of...
10 Jan, 2023 8 Things You (May) Want to Know About the Olivia Hussey/Leonard Whiting Suit About Nudity in Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo & Juliet By Edward H. Rosenthal You may be wondering what is going on with the lawsuit recently filed in California state court by actors Olivia Hussey and Leonard...
27 Aug, 2021 Should a Serial Copyright Infringement Litigant, Represented by a Notorious Copyright Law Firm, Have Discovered Infringement Earlier? By Brian Murphy Photojournalist Theodore Parisienne licensed to the New York Daily News photos he took of a man recklessly risking life and limb to climb...
06 Jul, 2020 Forever(ly) Brothers, Forever(ly) Rivals: The Everly Brothers' Epic Battle Over Authorship of "Cathy's Clown" By Brian Murphy Cain and Abel. Romulus and Remus. Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Mary I. Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. J.R. and Bobby Ewing. Liam...
19 Apr, 2020 An Untimely Copyright Lawsuit About a Timeless Guitar By Brian Murphy This is a story about the cold-blooded murder of a rock star, the reissue of his famous guitar without permission from the friend who...
24 Jul, 2019 Copyright Infringement Claims Against Just Fresh Restaurant Prove Stale By Nicole Bergstrom In Chelko v. Does JF Restaurants, LLC, 3:18-cv-005636 (W.D.N.C.), a District Court for the Western District of North Carolina followed...
06 Jun, 2019 Fourth Estate Interpreted: A Plaintiff Cannot Amend a Complaint to Add Newly Obtained Copyright Registrations By Edward H. Rosenthal In its very recent decision in Fourth Estate Pub. Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, the Supreme Court held that an action for copyright...