Lawyers for the Walt Disney Co. empire don’t even want to hear that anybody is making the argument. But an early version of Mickey Mouse, who starred in the first…
A federal judge in northern California questions whether Stephanie Lenz can prove that Universal Music Corp. acted in bad faith when it demanded that YouTube take down a 29-second Aug 21, 2008 4:10 PM CDT
A lawyer for Mattel urged jurors yesterday to order a competing toy maker to pay $1.8 billion in damages for marketing and selling the Bratz doll, conceived by a designer…
In an unprecedented effort to enforce their copyrights, five top computer game-makers are reportedly about to threaten 25,000 residents of the United Kingdom with lawsuits unless they ante up about…
People may need a reason to believe in Republican John McCain as the country’s next president, but singer, songwriter and liberal activist Jackson Browne doesn’t want it to be his…
Someone who goes by the name Cap’n Awesome isn’t happy with the Manhattan judge handling Viacom’s $1 billion infringement lawsuit against YouTube. The Cap’n has posted a YouTube video, rated…
In what may be an ABA Annual Meeting first, presenters at the Section of Science & Technology Law’s session on the future of music and technology digitally recorded, remixed, replayed…
A federal judge in California has refused to grant a mistrial because of a juror’s disparaging comments about a CEO’s Iranian ethnicity in a copyright dispute over Bratz dolls.
There is Scrabulous news today for some 500,000 aficionados of the popular computerized word game that was played on the Internet by some 450,000 Facebook users each day.
Initially fighting a losing battle, seemingly, in the court of public opinion, Baker & McKenzie has notched a victory over an 11-year-old opponent in the World Intellectual Property Organization.
One of the most popular features on Facebook could soon be gone, if the social networking site’s operators comply with a takedown request from a U.S. toymaker.
An Internet company that served as a platform for individuals interested in searching television and radio broadcasts, creating video clips, embedding them on websites and sharing them with others has…
Admittedly not thinking about the consequences, a computing services manager for the University of Texas reportedly says he was the practical jokester who posted a fake Oklahoman article online under…
A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom records of customers’ user names and IP addresses, along with records of videos they watched on…
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