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 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 Johannes Doerge | Nov 24, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment
On October 25, 2017, the High Court of New Zealand issued a ruling in the much-publicized dispute between Eminem and New Zealand’s National Party, finding that the Party’s 2014 commercial infringed Eminem’s copyright on his hit “Lose Yourself.”1 The infringing...
by Casey Patchunka | Nov 20, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment
S. Victor Whitmill is the artist who created the infamous Mike Tyson face tattoo, and sued Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. for copyright infringement.1 In the movie “The Hangover 2,” this tattoo is replicated on actor Ed Helms.2 Tyson’s tattoo is a re-creation of...
by Nicole Desanctis | Nov 17, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment, Other, Trademark
Feature productions have a way of transporting viewers to an alternate reality. Whether it’s watching a superhero transform or immersing yourself in outer space, motion pictures have continuously been able to suspend our imagination, thanks in part to evolving...
