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 | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
. On February 1, 2016, Solid Oak Sketches filed suit in the United States District Court Southern District of New York against Take-Two Interactive for copyright infringement claiming unauthorized reproduction of tattoo designs. Solid Oak Sketches obtained the rights...
by jburns | Feb 2, 2016 | Copyright, Uncategorized
2015 proved to be a watershed year for the fair use defense to copyright infringement, with the latest decision ending a long-running dispute between the Authors Guild and Google over the Google Books project.[1] In Authors Guild v. Google, the Second Circuit held...
by jburns | Oct 24, 2015 | Copyright, Entertainment Law, Uncategorized
On October 14th, 2015, Jay-Z and Timbaland appeared in a Los Angeles federal court for copyright infringement regarding a sample used in their 1999 hit, Big Pimpin. This court appearance marked the beginning of the end of an eight-year legal battle, which began in...
by jburns | Sep 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
For creators of goods these days, the attractive and innovative design of a product itself is no longer the only thing to focus on when releasing goods out into the market for consumption. It is not only how the product itself is perceived by the consumers, but also...
by jburns | Jun 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
The author of the 2006 novel The Little White Trip: A Night in the Pines, Peter Gallagher, recently filed a copyright infringement suit for $10 million against Lionsgate and the producers of the 2012 film The Cabin in the Woods.[1] Gallagher alleges that the...
