by sindhoo | Mar 24, 2014 | Commentary
The New York-based startup Aereo has recently been making waves in the digital television world by creating a low-cost option for consumers to watch and record live broadcast television, providing a service similar to Internet-based streaming websites such as Hulu....
by keandrab | Nov 12, 2013 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology
Music streaming service, Spotify, has yet again found itself at odds with a creator in the music industry. This time around, the disagreement centers on a more novel question: Does a compilation constitute copyrightable intellectual property? According to U.K. based...
by rniemei | Nov 8, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology
Last week on October 31st, a nightmare scenario that Google hoped to avoid came to pass. Attorneys for Rockstar Consortium filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas against Google and seven handheld device makers that employ Google’s Android operating system...
by mirdamad | Sep 29, 2013 | Cases
Faced with the prospect of copyright infringement lawsuits from Bridgeport Music, Inc. (“Bridgeport”) and Marvin Gaye’s heirs (the “Heirs”), the composers of the multinational hit song “Blurred Lines” filed a declaratory judgment action against Bridgeport and the...
by MTTLR ADMIN | Sep 15, 2013 | Commentary
The relationship between the developer of a show, book, or other story and a fan is usually pretty straightforward. The artist conceives, produces, and distributes a story, the fan consumes the story, and, if the fan really loves the story, consumes all sorts of...
