Humdinger of a copyright case
How can a statute of limitations for copyright infringement bar a state law claim for an accounting of profits between co-authors brought under diversity jurisdiction?... Read more
Category: Copyright Law
Statutory damages in copyright, and the Tenenbaum case
Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation: Doug Lichtman out at UCLA sends this along: Joel Tenenbaum looks a lot like every other defendant who has... Read more
Best of 2010: Moral rights in Massachusetts
First published April 12, 2010. Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law: A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual... Read more
Baseball been very, very good to lawyers
Do you remember the lawsuit by Major League Baseball over the use of — well, not statistics, exactly, but the rights of publicity in baseball... Read more
The Google exception?
Way back when the Google Books issue first burst forth, I expressed considerable skepticism that their plan to scan the universe of books and put... Read more
They always get their man
Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they? A few years ago, criminal enterprise... Read more
Best of 2009: I can’t stands no more!
Published on January 6, 2009. The Popeye copyrights are now in the public domain in Europe. That’s copyright, not trademark. As Mark Owen, an IP... Read more
Oy vey
Consider the other side of the aggrieved vandalism promoter Shepard Fairey, of HOPE poster fame: Gawker: “Obey” Trademark Law: Some guy in Pittsburgh sells little... Read more
A Short Novel About a Girl and Her Copyright Problem
I, Matthew David Brozik, your dedicated lieutenant blawger, have written a novel. Actually, I’ve written three. And, also, this one—Taking Ivy Seriously—is really a novella,... Read more
Little claims, big idea?
A major theme around here is the proposition that copyright law encourages litigation of even the most tenuous plaintiffs’ claims, mainly because of the rules... Read more
Heavy lifting
The Google Copyright Blog rips into that bad deep-linking decision in Texas. Originally posted 2007-01-04 18:02:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Darth Vader versus the United States of America! (Okay, not really.)
This post discusses what by all rights should be the most exciting case ever heard by any court anywhere. One of the plaintiffs is Darth... Read more
Best of 2009: “Adverference?”
This was originally published on January 22, 2009: Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured... Read more