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INTA in Sunny San Diego: A Quick Wrap-Up

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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

Jones Day

UK Court Rules on Reverse Engineering of Mainframe Software

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IBM UK ("IBM") successfully enforced the terms of a mainframe license against the defendants who had created a competing software product....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Time to Assess the Damage: Implications from THJ Systems v. Sheridan

THJ Systems Ltd & Anor v. Sheridan & Anor [2024] EWHC 3195 (Ch) addressed two key issues in respect of damages related to (i) breach of contract and (ii) copyright infringement, following a determination of liability in...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

The Precedent: Bitmanagement Software GmbH v. United States

In this edition of The Precedent, we outline the recent federal circuit decision in Bitmanagement Software GmbH v. United States (Fed. Cir. Jan. 7, 2025)....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

The Pitch - October 2024

The Pitch newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to the music, film and television, fine arts, media, professional athletics, eSports, and gaming industries. The Pitch features a diverse...more

DLA Piper

Five Intellectual Property Considerations for Talent Partnerships

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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the intersection of technology and entertainment raises new challenges and opportunities in the realm of talent partnerships. With generative artificial intelligence’s growing...more

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Legal Issues Around AI Are Real. And Complex.

Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down and discussing the legal implications of AI with a group of General Counsels. This group of GCs represented companies from the Fortune 100 all the way to mid-size enterprises. That...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Strange Bedfellows on the Campaign Trail: The Tension between Music, Copyright and Political Licensing Agreements

Moments before former President Donald Trump took to the stage at a Montana rally this August, Celine Dion’s 1997 hit, “My Heart Will Go On,” blasted over the speakers while a clip appeared onscreen. It took less than 24...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

California’s Shift to Kaplan for Bar Exam Questions Sparks Copyright Debate

Facing potential insolvency by 2026, the State Bar of California is exploring various cost-saving measures, including remote administration and the use of small vendor-owned test centers for its exams. As part of this...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Navigating the Legal Landscape: Generative AI and Copyright Law

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Generative artificial intelligence captivated the world in 2023 and is firmly positioned to remain center stage in the coming year. In the United States, the introduction and early-stage use of generative AI have been plagued...more

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Mic Drop: Singer-Songwriter Forgoes Public Performance Royalties to Prevent Performances by ‘Cover Band’ Amidst Lawsuit

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The original frontman of The Guess Who, Burton Cummings, terminated his public performance license agreements in the hope of preventing what he calls a The Guess Who “cover band” from performing the works he penned for the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

IP Considerations in Protecting Autonomous Vehicle Software with Patents and Copyrights

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As autonomous vehicles and associated software become more commonplace in the automotive industry, it is important to recognize which forms of intellectual property grant protection within quickly evolving areas of technology...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Dungeons & Dragons: The Campaign for the Open Gaming License

Until early 2023, a public disagreement regarding open intellectual property licenses was ongoing between the owner of a significant piece of popular content—the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)—and the individuals...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Not-So-Open Gaming License: Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Tries to Tighten Grip on Third-Party Content - Kattison Avenue/Katten...

It’s an agreement that fans and content creators have been operating under for years: use Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) as the base system for your podcast, tabletop roleplaying game system (like Pathfinder, or Adventures in...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Copyright Office Recommends No New Copyright Protections for News Publishers in the United States

Bucking a legal trend in Europe, the United States Copyright Office recently recommended against adopting additional copyright-like protections for news publishers that would require online news aggregators to pay publishers...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Understanding NFTs and Their Legal Implications

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Latham & Watkins lawyers discuss the emerging technology of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), including how they function and their various legal implications in the US, UK, and APAC. Topics: • Understanding NFTs and their...more

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Royalty-Free and Open License Works

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If you want to use photographs, graphics, or other content without paying a fee or by paying a one-time fee rather than an ongoing royalty, it is important that you understand the law to avoid subjecting yourself or your...more

McAfee & Taft

Navigating the social media maze of copyright

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As 2020 marches on, companies continue to focus on social media and other online forms of marketing and advertising to connect with their customers. Unfortunately, by advertising and connecting through social media, companies...more

Clark Hill PLC

Teaching Online Traps for the Unwary – How to Use Copyrighted Material Safely

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With most K-12 schools moving to exclusively online educational programming necessitated by shelter-in-place and other limitations imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers want to know if, when, and how they can use...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Facing the Music: Protecting Photography in the Age of Instagram

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Digitization, The Internet, And Social Media Have Changed Much About Our World. Among Them Is The Additional Exposure—but Also Vulnerabilities—photographers And Content Creators Face On Instagram. This Article Analyzes The...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Ghosts of Past Licensing Agreements Continue to Haunt Ms. Pac-Man

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1980 was a momentous year. Not only was it the year in which the Rubik’s Cube was first released, it was also when approximately 350 million people worldwide finally learned who shot J.R. on TV’s “Dallas” (spoiler alert: it...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Three Point Shot - May 2019

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Welcome to Three Point Shot, a newsletter brought to you by the Sports Law Group at Proskauer. Three Point Shot brings you the latest in sports law-related news and provides you with links to related materials... Topgolf...more

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IP Disputes Among Private Business Co-Owners Dominate Three Recent Cases

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Last month gave us three noteworthy post-trial decisions in three different cases from three different states, all centering on disputes among business co-owners over the ownership and exploitation of the businesses’s core...more

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Are You a Pirate or a Promoter?

Copyright and Trademark Protection for a Reason - Protecting Creative Speech in Practice - Let’s talk intellectual property. Not patents and trade secrets, not that “hard stuff.” I’m talking creative intellectual property....more

Jones Day

First Circuit Rejects Sunbeam Approach to Effect of Rejection of Trademark License in Bankruptcy

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In Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC (In re Tempnology, LLC), 879 F.3d 389 (1st Cir. 2018), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that the rejection of a trademark license in bankruptcy means...more

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