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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - July 2025 #4

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A former Major League Soccer marketing executive sued the league in New York federal court Friday, alleging he was fired in retaliation for repeatedly complaining of racial discrimination by his superiors....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

IP Terminology: Accuracy Matters

In the linked article about a trademark dispute, the author notes that the plaintiff claimed the defendant used a “copyrighted name.” Just a reminder: one can patent inventions, copyright creative works of expression, and...more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - February 2025 #4

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The NFL, MLB, NCAA and NASCAR said they support a bill introduced in Congress on Thursday that would give state and local law enforcement the ability to disable drones during sporting events, which the leagues say have become...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

AI Litigation Insights

Dow Jones & Company, Inc. and NYP Holdings, Inc. v. Perplexity AI, Inc. - Plaintiffs Dow Jones and Company, Inc. and NYP Holdings, Inc., publishers of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, (collectively, Plaintiffs),...more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - November 2024 #2

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Diego Pavia became the latest college athlete to sue the NCAA. While many past NCAA lawsuits have concerned NIL, the Vanderbilt football quarterback is seeking an extra year of eligibility. His argument, in court documents...more

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TikTok Lawsuits Target Brands, Influencers

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The music industry has begun cracking down on brand owners’ and influencers’ unlicensed use of songs in social media posts through the filing of several lawsuits over the past few months. The lawsuits have largely targeted...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

I Shared Someone Else’s photo on Instagram. Did I Commit Copyright Infringement?

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Sharing images on Instagram and other social network platforms is such a common practice that we do it without hardly even thinking about it. But we must be aware that sharing a piece of creative content (picture, text, etc.)...more

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A refresher on copyright - Lennox Estates v S&W Ventures

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Imagine...you own a site. You give an option to a developer to buy that site subject to obtaining planning permission. It gets the planning permission, using planning drawings prepared by a firm of architects that it engages,...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Live Long and Mashup: Seussian-Style Universe Deemed Acceptable Fair Use

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In June of 2017, channeling the Seussian musings of the case at hand, we first introduced you to the Southern District of California case, Seuss Enters., L.P. v. Comicmix LLC, 372 F. Supp. 3d 1101 (S.D. Cal. 2019), which...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Special Report - 2019 IP Law Year in Review – European Issues

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The last year of the 2010s has been prolific in terms of important new pieces of legislation and case law within the European Union, and in France and Germany in particular. Indeed, the European Parliament and the EU Council...more

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Trump’s a Wedding Crasher and News Outlets Can’t Poach Photos Off Instagram

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A lesser-known feature of selecting a TRUMP-branded property as a wedding venue is that the President himself may decide to crash your wedding. It also may end up leading to a substantial copyright law development,...more

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