by jburns | Mar 29, 2016 | Copyright
Earlier this month, FiveThirtyEight reported that crossword puzzle aficionados have uncovered possible plagiarism across several widely distributed crossword puzzles.[1] The puzzles, many of which are compiled by crossword editor Tim Parker for USA Today and Universal...
by jburns | Mar 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Disney’s Frozen was released in 2013 and has since made over $1 billion internationally, is the 18th highest grossing film of all time, and remained in the top eight films for all fourteen weeks that it was in wide release. While Frozen was a monstrous financial...
by jburns | Mar 26, 2016 | Fashion Law, Trademark Law
The best way to get noticed on social media is by using a hashtag. A hashtag, or the pound sign (#), turns any words behind the symbol into a searchable link on social media platforms to organize content based on the key words. Whether on Instagram, Twitter,...
by jburns | Mar 26, 2016 | News
In the past year, the free streaming business model has increasingly come under fire from artists (such as Taylor Swift, Radiohead, Bjork, and Garth Brooks) and industry insiders who critiqued this business model as unprofitable. In the past month, the CEOs of both...
by jburns | Mar 24, 2016 | Trademark Law, Unfair Competition
In re Booking.com and Website Domains. The Trademark Trial and Appeals Board (TTAB) recently decided that a trademark on ‘booking.com’ should not be extended because it was merely descriptive, and therefore generic.[1] While the TTAB arrived at this conclusion for...
