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...
9/29/2023 4:27:15 PM 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...
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...
4/17/2023 2:37:11 PM 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,...
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...
3/3/2023 1:49:35 PM 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...
1/10/2023 2:23:08 AM 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...
8/27/2021 8:18:14 PM 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...
7/6/2020 1:15:08 PM 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...
4/19/2020 10:45:55 PM 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...
7/24/2019 10:44:21 PM 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...
6/6/2019 6:59:25 PM 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...