The New Era of Generative AI and Marketing
Brian WallaceIt’s going to be a very interesting landscape when the dust settles in the world of generative artificial intelligence through the proliferation of ChatGPT and beyond. (You’ll probably want to…
Strange times we live in
Ron ColemanI, for one, am losing track of all the things I’m losing track of. Can anyone explain this? #productplacement https://t.co/xUIBDehfwR — Likelihood ®© Blog (@likely2confuse) August 20, 2019
Grumpy cat. This is huge.
Can Grumpy Cat be protected? Hollywood attorney Marty Singer is trying https://t.co/A34HKRiLPh pic.twitter.com/RIRCkWTEYp — Eriq Gardner (@eriqgardner) December 14, 2015 You need me for this? Ok. Let’s take a swing…
Caveat Animator (guest post by Brozik)
Matthew David Brozikhas filed a lawsuit claiming that Disney’s animated film about took elements from her 2010 autobiography…. Court documents a list of 18 “Frozen” elements that claims were plagiarized directly from…
The Future of “Happy Birthday” Might Be a Present to Us All, Because of Its Past.
As a rule—specifically Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 8(a)(2)—a pleading that states a claim for relief must contain… a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the…
Looking for “Peace of Mind” (BOSTON 2)
You might recall this previous post, addressing the nascent lawsuit brought by a corporate music publisher/exploiter and its principal (plaintiffs Next Decade Entertainment, Inc. & Paul Ahearn) against songwriter Don…
Reality is stranger than… something
Larry Zerner does it again with his uniquely unique (if too infrequent — that’s a free tip, Larry) content. This time it’s an article called, “5 Horrible Provisions You Might…
Let the games begin
Ron ColemanYahoo! News reports: Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. sued Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion on Tuesday in the biggest challenge yet to the…
Barney, Barney, is your mother from Killarney?
Speaking of ugly fights implicating extinct species, Joseph Scott Miller reports on his Fire of Genius blog — no, he’s not the only one, but he reports it real good…
Heck of a trademark suit
Chunky rocker Meat Loaf is suing his one-time collaborator, Jim Steinman, over the latter’s recycling of the title of his one good album. UPDATE: I want to sue. I need…
Disneyfried
This is somewhat off topic, but if, like me, you’d be happy to live off the interest on Mike Ovitz’s obscene payout from his brief and disastrous vacation at Disney,…
The Potential Hazzards of Putting up Yer Dukes
So many strands of America in our time converge in this story, regarding which I predict some sort of IP dustup: “Cooter” was evidently the name of a character on…