Copyright & Social Media
Communications Law
News of the Week; November 11, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Game, set, match: Sometimes the photo is the story Federal Judge Rules Embedding of Instagram Post Containing Copyrighted Photo is Fair Use Embedding in a State of Flux: New York Courts Challenge Decade Old Reasoning from the Ninth Circuit Vallejo v. Narcos Productions LLC (USCA, Oct.27, 2020): Held that portions Netflix’s Narcos series are […]
News of the Week; November 4, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Use Your Illusion: Rights in posthumous holographic performance Intellectual Property & Architecture – Copyright Protection in Focus Tenth Circuit Breathes New Life into a Spooky Skeleton Copyright Dispute Protect Your Posts: New Group Copyright Registration Option for Online Blogs and Articles The US election: a vote on IP? New Working Paper – Memes […]
News of the Week; October 28, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Enforcing Copyright Outside the Courtroom – The New Notice Regimes FLVTO.biz Petitions SCOTUS To Hear Jurisdiction Argument In Stream-Ripping Lawsuit Battle Lines Drawn Over Font Copyright Protection Tom Lehrer, Still Awesome, Releases Lyrics Into The Public Domain Armes v. Post: In action asserting co-authorship of Post Malone’s hit song “Circles,” court dismisses alleged […]
News of the Week; October 21, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Supreme Court of Canada to Hear York University/Access Copyright Appeals Justice Luc Martineau is new chair of Copyright Board of Canada Google gets mixed reception in Supreme Court clash with Oracle: Justices held a low-tech telephone session in one of the biggest software fights in American history on Wednesday Google’s Supreme Court faceoff […]
News of the Week; October 14, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Google gets mixed reception in Supreme Court clash with Oracle: Justices held a low-tech telephone session in one of the biggest software fights in American history on Wednesday Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google IP Alert | Supreme Court Hears Arguments in “Copyright Case of the Century” hiQ […]
News of the Week; October 7, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Fake News, Fake Views and the Parody Exception Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. (SCOTUS Oral Arguments Transcript, October 7, 2020) Oracle Is Wrong About Having Permission To Reimplement Amazon’s API. But They Shouldn’t Need It. The Supreme Court hears Oracle v. Google tomorrow—here’s what’s at stake Copyright Owner Claims Ownership Over Depicting […]
News of the Week; September 30, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Access Copyright v. York University – Update on Supreme Court – Replies Have Been Filed (Howard Knopf) The Outpost – Mass Copyright Litigation (Howard Knopf) How To Be Funny And Not A Jerk In A Cease And Desist Notice, From The Doobie Brothers Bill Murray Responds To Doobie Bros. Copyright Letter With Snark, […]
News of the Week; September 23, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Mandatory copyright tariffs – Uncharted territories Nicki Minaj’s “Artistic Experimentation” with a Tracy Chapman Song “to Seek License Approval” Qualifies as a Fair Use Under Copyright LEGO Blocks Out ZURU in Copyright Dispute Over Minifigures Schwartzwald v. Oath Inc.: Court dismisses photographer’s copyright claim against HuffPost, finding media site’s altered reproduction of photographer’s […]
News of the Week; September 16, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY In Another Instagram Embedding Decision, SDNY Finds Use of Image of Cardi B Fair Performing a DNA Test on Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts”: Joint Works and Derivative Works Under Copyright A Closer Look at a Troubling Anti-Scraping Ruling from Spring – Compulife Software v. Newman This Copyright Fair Use Opinion Discusses Jon Hamm’s Crotch […]
News of the Week; September 9, 2020
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Access Copyright and York U File Responses in SCC (Howard Knopf) The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency(“Access Copyright”) And -York University: Response Of York University To Application For Leave To Appeal Of The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency The Copyright Board’s New $757,548.50 (+?) Website – Finally an Apparently Functional Search Engine – but Otherwise Disappointing […]