The Dorsey Trademark, Copyright + Advertising team is back from the 2025 International Trademark Association Meeting. It was one for the books. We mixed and mingled with old and new colleagues and as well as our friends from...more
5/27/2025
/ Advertising ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Celebrities ,
Copyright ,
Corporate Branding ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Greenwashing ,
Influencers ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
License Agreements ,
Mediation ,
Trademarks ,
USPTO
Technology is changing, but is copyright law keeping up? Stephen Thaler clearly believes it is not and has sued the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register artwork created by his artificial intelligence software. ...more
Roc-A-Fella Records (“RAF”) owners Jay-Z and Damon Dash are clashing over Dash’s plans to sell an NFT (“nun-fungible token”) representing either a 1/3 share of the copyright to Jay-Z’s album Reasonable Doubt (if you believe...more
Just in time to steal ComicMix’s Christmas, the Ninth Circuit recently held that the bookmaker’s mashup story Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go! (which combines elements of the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go! with Star...more
American Airlines recently scored a major win by convincing the Copyright Office to reverse its refusal of an application to register the “American Airlines Flight Symbol.”
American Airlines reached its final destination...more
English pop musician Ed Sheeran has been sued for copyright infringement in the Central District of California over his recent hit song “Photograph,” which peaked at number ten on Billboard’s “The Hot 100” chart. The two...more