Best of 2009: I can’t stands no more!
Ron ColemanPublished 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 lawyer at the UK firm…
The Seventh Circuit solution
Matthew David Brozik wrote here about the December 2013 Holmes copyright expiration decision out of the U.S. District of Illinois shortly after it came out. Go there to understand what…
Detective work: Hunting down the copyright victory (of a “cop”).
Matthew David BrozikIf you want to read an article about an important development in copyright news, but you don’t want to be distracted by a lot of “facts” and such, enjoy this…
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: BOSTON* just got real (Boston 3)
*Preliminary note: I know that the band BOSTON is not a party to Ahern v. Scholz, but all the same I like thinking of this case as the BOSTON case,…
But It’s Not a Good Feeling.
I’m sorry. “More Than a Feeling” is the only Boston song I’ve ever heard—or even heard of. For a while, in fact, I was fairly certain that Boston, Foreigner, and…
Lawyers of steel
This story is all over the everywhere; I’ll let Eriq Gardner sum it up, as he does so very nicely: Warner Bros. has won a blockbuster victory that could entitle…
I can’t stands no more!
The Popeye copyrights are now in the public domain in Europe. That’s copyright, not trademark. As Mark Owen, an IP lawyer at the UK firm of Harbottle & Lewis is…