A book by former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gringrich used her copyrighted pictures of religious images in government buildings without permission, a photographer claims in a federal lawsuit.
A federal magistrate judge in New York says a blogging lawyer sometimes “veered into hyperbole and gratuitous attacks on the recording industry” but he doesn’t deserve to be sanctioned for…
When bloggers posted about a seemingly way-too-thin photo of a model featured in a recent Ralph Lauren advertisement, the company and its lawyers reportedly responded with a takedown demand, as…
In what reportedly is the first such use of the Internet authorized by any court in the country, the United Kingdom’s High Court has permitted an injunction on an anonymous…
When Amazon eliminated a George Orwell book from users’ Kindles earlier this year, after discovering the electronic text had been sold without proper authorization, it also eliminated Justin Gawronski’s homework.
In a settlement that may encourage other academics to push for their right to make fair use of excerpts of published material in their scholarly writing, the estate of famed…
Just when it might have seemed reasonable to expect a lull in ongoing coverage of the high-profile music file-sharing case of graduate student Joel Tenenbaum, a new issue has surfaced.
The New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hasn’t yet ruled on the merits of a federal court’s ban on the publication of an unauthorized “sequel” to J.D.…
Inspired by a law blog’s call for spur-of-the-moment entries into a law firm-related song contest, an aspiring songwriter at one of the nation’s best-known BigLaw firms stepped up to the…
A federal appeals court has ruled against a court reporter seeking a “missed fee” from a lawyer who obtained a transcript of a court hearing at a lower price from…
A trial judge’s grant of summary judgment for defendant Novell in a key portion of a dispute over the ownership of the Unix code was overturned yesterday by a federal…
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