by Hisham El Mawan | Oct 16, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment
Davide Suppo via Compfight Chance The Rapper has become Chance The Defendant. Last month, Abdul Wali Muhammad, a former jazz musician who now works as a civil rights lawyer, sued the Chicago-based hip-hop sensation for copyright infringement.1 The alleged infringement...
by Tasha Pulvermacher | Oct 2, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment, Trademark
Halloween brings the battles over copyright, trademark, and trade dress disputes. Every year, companies compete to design a new and innovative costume to take over the market and get part of the estimated $9.1 billion that Americans will spend on the spooky holiday...
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 Erica Perlmutter | Apr 24, 2017 | Art Law, Copyright, Trademark Law
“Men who don’t like women taking up space [is] exactly why we need the Fearless Girl.”[1] This is the tweet New York Mayor Bill de Blasio broadcasted in response to sculptor Arturo Di Modica calling for the statue’s removal.[2] State Street Global Advisors...
by Hisham El Mawan | Apr 17, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment Law
Turns out that some funny business can occur in, well, the business of being funny. Conan O’Brien – host of his own talk show on TBS, former writer and producer for The Simpsons, and more famous than Andy Richter – was sued for copyright infringement back in July of...
by J.R. LoMonaco | Apr 7, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment Law, Patent Law, Trade Secrets, Trademark Law
At the apex of current intellectual property crossroads exists The Vision of Infinite Dimensions – or, THE VOID™. Self-characterized as a world leader “in a new form of immersive entertainment,”[1] but critically-acclaimed enough to back it up,[2] THE VOID takes...
