Fight for your right to parody. Or don’t.
Sometimes, just when a copyright dispute is getting very interesting, the parties go and do the unthinkable: They resolve their differences like reasonable people, and... Read more
Tag: Copyright
Digital Analogy: Behind the Scenes of Aereo
"Judge Roberts, I remember Sputnik. I knew Sputnik. Sputnik was a friend of mine. Judge Roberts, the respondent’s system is no Sputnik." Read more
Guest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball?
[stextbox id=”info”] See below for more information about my colleague Greg Winsky, who is just snarky enough to merit a guest post on LIKELIHOOD OF CONCLUSION... Read more
Righthaven – Media Bloggers Association files amicus brief
I’ve written a little bit about the Righthaven lawsuits before. Now, as reported in the Las Vegas Sun, on behalf of the Media Bloggers Association... Read more
Worth a thousand words
How much use is fair use — i.e., permissible use — when it comes to graphics and photographs you “find” on the Internet? Not too... Read more
Best of 2011: Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies
First posted September 28, 2011. There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?”... Read more
Not my money
Last June, blogging about my presentation to the Copyright Society on the Righthaven litigation, I wrote the following: This brings us to the issue of... Read more
Guest post: Not So Cheerful About Varsity Brands
[stextbox id=”info” caption=”Marc Whipple of the Legal Inspiration! Blog” image=”https://images.avvo.com/avvo/ugc/images/head_shot/standard/1034170_1486741391.jpg”]This is a special treat! In our line of work it isn’t necessarily a compliment to... Read more
Bullish on royalties
The New York Post reports that the sculptor of the famous golden calf frozen in stampeding fury on lower Broadway — symbolizing the charge of... Read more
Rah rah raw
TTABlog declines to comment on S. Ct. cheerleader uniform decision. — TTABlog (@TTABlog) March 22, 2017 Indeed. LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® is also not ready to... Read more
The Copyright Act: It’s a law, dude
We don’t mince words at LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® regarding the misuse of copyright and trademark, but we’re having trouble finding anything wrong with this at-first-blush... Read more
Censorious fools
Cory Doctorow writes about how abuse of the copyright laws — using them as a method of privatized censorship — does creators of protected works... Read more
Best of 2011: Infinite loop
First posted (in updated form) on September 20, 2011.(Originally published on July 22, 2011; see update at bottom!) It can only mean one thing when... Read more
Canada: Copyright law not meant to protect distribution networks
The Gray Blog reports that the Canadian Supreme Court has rejected an attempt — the sort made all day all over North America — to... Read more