by Dan Canedo | Mar 2, 2018 | Copyright, Entertainment
For years, the music industry has dealt with music licensing issues, largely due to technological developments such as streaming radio and digital downloads, which have created new challenges for providing the appropriate levels of compensation for songwriters and...
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 Jamie Huelskamp | Feb 7, 2018 | Trademark
This fall, a U.S. House Budget Committee proposal entitled “Building a Better America: A Plan for Fiscal Responsibility” suggested a change for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”): separation from the Department of Commerce.1 The blueprint, in...
by Caroline Saunders | Nov 30, 2017 | Entertainment, Trademark
As students everywhere head towards finals, the siren call of Netflix’s binge-worthy dramas is likely pulling many away from their books and notes towards their TVs and tablets. And while Netflix indicates that Narcos is more likely to be “savored” by viewers than...
by Nika Montenero | Nov 27, 2017 | Trademark
Has the term “Google” become so generic that it simply means using any search engine to look up information? That is exactly what Chris Gillespie, a man who has registered 763 domain names that combined “Google” with other words and phrases, tried to prove in his suit...
