by ghans | Nov 7, 2009 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
One of the most prominent copyright/fair use cases over the last year has been artist Shepard Fairey’s dispute with the Associated Press (AP) over his famous poster of now-President Obama during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. The poster, which featured a...
by Travis Rimando | Aug 7, 2009 | Cases |
The lawsuit between rock artist Jackson Browne and Senator John McCain and the Republican Party was recently settled, and ordered dismissed on August 4, 2009, almost a year after the suit was filed by Browne. Browne filed a lawsuit against McCain, the Republican...
by nsims | Feb 12, 2009 | Old Blog Posts
by Jeff Liu , MTTLR Associate Editor Last summer, a federal district court ruled, in Tiffany v. Ebay, that online marketplace eBay was not liable under trademark and unfair competition law for facilitating the sale of counterfeit items on its website. The court noted...
by anickow | Nov 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
by Lauren Strandbergh, MTTLR Associate Editor Image The Search by Robert S.. Used under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.On October 28, 2008, Google reached a settlement with The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) after two years of...
by anickow | Nov 10, 2008 | Uncategorized |
by Holly Lance, MTTLR Associate EditorIt may be time to quit that nasty BitTorrent habit. On October 13th, President Bush signed into law the PRO-IP Act (Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008), which greatly increases the power...
