by Gabrial Mitchell | Feb 9, 2018 | Copyright, Entertainment
The New Year isn’t starting off so well for a few big name musicians. Two Australian songwriters filed a lawsuit in New York on January 10th against Ed Sheeran, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and others for copyright infringement in the new hit duet “The Rest of Our Life.”1...
by Gabrial Mitchell | Sep 25, 2017 | Copyright
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey… sues for copyright? In a sense, that is what happened when a monkey named Naruto got ahold of wildlife photographer David Slater’s camera in 2011 and snapped a selfie with him grinning for the camera.1 Slater went on to publish the image...
by Gabrial Mitchell | Mar 24, 2017 | Entertainment Law, Trademark Law
I attended the Supreme Court argument for Lee v. Tam in January 2017 and, let me tell you, it was worth standing in the cold for four hours. The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the trademark issues at play, but when they do, it will set new precedent for trademark...
