If you have kids you are trying to wean off of Playstation, Wii or Xbox, don’t leave this article around for them to read. Because a number of successful attorneys…
It was initially U.S District Judge Nancy Gertner’s idea that a pro se defendant in a high-profile file-sharing case should seek help from a renowned Harvard Law School professor.
It is considered a clear fair use of copyrighted material when bloggers excerpt a quotation and link to the online publication that initially printed it.
The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted an appeal by Reed Elsevier, Thomson Reuters and other publishers seeking to reinstate a settlement providing compensation for the electronic republication of freelance articles.
A federal judge is allowing a copyright infringement suit by the Associated Press to proceed on the theory that the “hot news doctrine” applies to the Internet.
Updated: In a “fig leaf” settlement entered into by BlockShopper after it racked up a six-figure legal defense bill in a controversial federal trademark infringement lawsuit, the website has agreed…
When “appropriationist” artist Richard Prince saw some photographs of Rastafarians in a book, he copied them onto his computer and then onto his canvases.
Holden Lenz had just learned to walk when—on Feb. 7, 2007—he stepped into the front lines of the copyright wars. Thirteen-month-old Holden was tottering around his family’s home in rural…
Holiday sales of Bratz dolls will be allowed to continue despite a federal judge’s recall order yesterday in an infringement suit against MGA Entertainment.
The city of Louisville is changing its plans for a holiday celebration featuring characters from How the Grinch Stole Christmas after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from a DLA Piper lawyer…
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