1600 tweets, and whaddya get?
Here’s what I’ve got the last couple of weeks, in terms of tweety things. This is as good a way to focus on and round... Read more
Tag: Copyright Law
No safe harbor for this shark.
Generally, one doesn’t expect to find copyright decisions of note in state courts, but every so often one will crop up. One really doesn’t expect... Read more
Scientology pushed back on copyright
Scientology seems to do a lot better with the Internal Revenue Code than with the Copyright Act: A Colorado nonprofit group has won a critical... Read more
Goldman on Ticketmaster
Eric’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog asks whether “the public interest got screwed” in the recent big win for Ticketmaster down in Alabama against RMS,... Read more
Best of 2009: “Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury”
This post, which is the first of two parts (the second part can be found at the link at the end) was first posted on... Read more
COICA: Big IP supersizes it
Everything I’ve written about here for the last five years, or just about everything, is about to get a lot worse, explains David Post: Congress... Read more
A beauty, a doll
The WSJ Law Blog reports: A federal jury in Riverside, Calif., determined Thursday that MGA Entertainment’s hugely popular Bratz dolls (pictured left) were designed while... Read more
Decline and fall of the dumb copyright trick (Best of 2017)
First published on November 13, 2017. One of the dumbest things people — overlawyered, and, sadly, mainly professionally-licensed people — have tried to do to... Read more
Chocolate Ice Cream with Chocolate Syrup
How else to describe a post (this one) that combines two of our favorite obsessions — Google and fair use? Business Week online reports that... Read more
Bratz, foiled again!
First, December’s 15, 2009’s story: Remember the Bratz dolls case, and the phenomenal legal fees application that followed? It’s back! The Ninth Circuit Court... Read more
King Kong meets Godzilla
Via Drudge — FT.com unleases a whopper: Microsoft on Tuesday launches a fierce attack on Google over its “cavalier” approach to copyright, accusing the internet... Read more
Let the games begin
Yahoo! 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... Read more
Old media vs. new in LA federal court
CNET News.com reports: NBC Universal and Viacom have come out against YouTube in a legal case that could help to determine whether the video-sharing site... Read more