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
Tag: Copyright Law
Zombie on zombie action
The Escapist (via Punning Pundit): In a battle that refuses to die, publisher Capcom filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against the Dawn of the Dead film... Read more
Holding Caulfield
I could have linked to a million stories on this, but Publishers Weekly seems appropriate*: Finding that author J.D. Salinger is “likely to succeed on the... Read more
Can you ring the unrung bell? (Updated)
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® has recently run up against the following issue in litigation and welcomes views from the house. We think we’re on the right... Read more
"Identity" is "Not Authored, Not Fixed"; God Mulls Appeal
Dennis Crouch reports on a Seventh Circuit opinion ruling that the Copyright Act does not preempt a claim under Illinois’ right of publicity. It arose... Read more
Copywrong
David Post discusses Judge Richard Posner’s musings on the pretty hopeless prospects of the newspaper biz: [I]f “the newspaper” as a business model fails (because... Read more
No copyright in the fact of your existence
Whether someone else’s movie includes your building in Times Square (a properly defunct trademark claim) or, as Marty Schwimmer reports, your pinball machine in the... Read more
Revoke this, I implied. Or something.
Only a real IP lawyer like Pamela Chestek can write about revoking an implied nonexclusive copyright license. And mean it. Originally posted 2011-03-24 17:58:18. Republished... Read more
Pro shutterbug’s guide to IP
Here’s a good excerpt from a new book by copyright doyenne Nancy Wolff called The Professional Photographer’s Legal Handbook. It’s on a favorite topic of... Read more
Unilateral copyright law
Eugene Volokh joins the pile–on regarding a website that claims to exempt its contents from the liberating effects of the fair use doctrine. The North... Read more
Other People’s Information Doesn’t Want to be Free
Last night Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled in the Apple case that “reporters who published ‘stolen property’ weren’t entitled to protections. ” B-b-b-b-b-b-but... Read more
Who Owns First?
Is the beloved routine in the public domain? Say it with me: “I don’t know. Third base.” Read more
Copywrite
This Copywrite blog is really good. Originally posted 2009-12-22 17:19:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
An answer to the musical question
Unsurprising news: In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of... Read more