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(Podcast) The Briefing: The Ninth Circuit Puts the Brakes on Eleanor’s Copyright Claim
The Briefing: The Ninth Circuit Puts the Brakes on Eleanor’s Copyright Claim
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(Podcast) The Briefing: Trademark Smoked: The Fall of General Cigar’s COHIBA Registration
The Briefing: Trademark Smoked: The Fall of General Cigar’s COHIBA Registration
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In Part 1 of this two-part series, we introduced you to the various licensing models and special terminology unique to the photo/image licensing business. But knowing the terms and terminology is only half of the battle....more
In previous Snippets articles and AI News Roundups, we introduced the current lawsuits between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and two of the largest generative AI music companies, Suno and Udio. To...more
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly generate content, designs, code, inventions, and even music, businesses face a pressing legal question: who owns the output when a machine creates it? The legal...more
In a significant move to address the tension between copyright and generative artificial intelligence (AI), the UK’s Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), and Publishers’...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a district court’s judgment of copyright infringement against an internet book archive, holding that its free-to-access library did not constitute fair use of the...more
Restaurant, bar, club and tavern owners around the United States need to make sure they are properly licensing boxing fights for commercial usage before broadcasting the fight in their establishments. There are several...more
Daren Orzechowski, Alex Touma, and Jack Weinert examine Part 1 of Artificial Intelligence Report on Digital Replicas, published by the U.S. Copyright Office on July 31, 2024. In the first quarter of 2023, the U.S....more
The NCAA national men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will begin on March 17, 2024 and end with the national championship games in early April. Broadcast stations often conduct promotions tied to these tournaments...more
This blog is written by Arizona copyright lawyer Steve Vondran. Vondran Legal has handled hundreds of federal court litigation cases since its founding in 2004. One important area we practice is restaurant IP law, which...more
Having handled nearly a 1,000 software compliance audits with copyright clients large and small, I am setting forth my findings of the best to the worst companies, in my opinion, in terms of fairness, undue aggressiveness,...more
We have already seen one MASS SOFTWARE PIRACY case filed this year by Siemens, and now on the heels of that lawsuit (also filed in Texas) there is another lawsuit filed by Ansys, Inc. filed by the Law Offices of John F. Lumen...more
Attorney Steve® Photo Infringement News for Real Estate Professionals - My law firm is a boutique intellectual property law firm with a strong focus on copyright issues, including photographs and drone videos. We are...more
Open-source software is different from traditional, licensed software, and some developers might want to be careful about how they use open-source platforms. AI has complicated matters further, and developers need to be aware...more
In 2019, the Council of the European Union’s Committee of Permanent Representatives approved a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market to respond to developments in the modes and markets for creation, production...more
We had been following on this blog the heated debates around the proposed EU Copyright Directive. These debates now belong to history since on March 27, 2019, the European parliament adopted the Directive with 348 votes...more
Opening another front in the data wars, the Members of the European Parliament, on March 26, 2019, adopted the text of a new Copyright Directive. According to the European Parliament, the Directive “aims to ensure that the...more
On 13 February 2019 the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council finally agreed the text of the long-awaited draft Copyright Directive (COM(2016)593) (“Directive“). ...more
Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that has great potential to solve many of the fundamental challenges facing the music industry today. In fact, this technology is uniquely suited to address issues across the various...more
As the Obama Administration drew to a close, its antitrust enforcers took two actions of note for those involved in intellectual property (IP) licensing. The first, the joint release by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)...more
Intellectual property (IP) issues are increasingly important factors in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Of the various industry sector transactions included in recent American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law...more
In 1995, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice first issued the Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. They represent the antitrust enforcement policy of the agencies with...more