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Not Your Property, Your Business: When Customized Products Become the Business of Rights Holders and Courts Image

Not Your Property, Your Business: When Customized Products Become the Business of Rights Holders and Courts

Chidera Anyanwu & Chloe Delehanty

In some instances the appearance of third-party intellectual property on items purchased, owned and customized by the purchaser may be legal under the doctrines of first sale and fair use.

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11th Circuit Rules for Stephen King In Suit Over Dark Tower Series Image

11th Circuit Rules for Stephen King In Suit Over Dark Tower Series

Michael A. Mora

Vincent Cox of Ballard Spahr in Los Angeles and Scott Ponce of Holland & Knight in Miami prevailed recently in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh…

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Litigation Over Tom Clancy Works Involves Fundamental, But Complex Copyright Elements Image

Litigation Over Tom Clancy Works Involves Fundamental, But Complex Copyright Elements

Stan Soocher

Current copyright litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland involving Clancy's widow Alexandra and his former wife Wanda King is complex, but involves fundamental issues of copyright ownership.

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'Stranger Things' Copyright Claim Survives Motion to Dismiss Image

'Stranger Things' Copyright Claim Survives Motion to Dismiss

Alan R. Friedman

In response to a copyright claim in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that the Netflix series Stranger Things infringed on Irish Rover Entertainment's unpublished screenplays, Netflix and the other defendants filed a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, arguing that the works were not substantially similar as a matter of law.

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New COVID Relief Bill Brings Changes to Trademark and Copyright Practice Image

New COVID Relief Bill Brings Changes to Trademark and Copyright Practice

Eugene Y. Mar, Nate A. Garhart & Ashleigh Nickerson

The new, more than 5,000-page spending bill, which includes the latest COVID-19 relief, had a few surprises under its cover. Two of those surprises focus directly on intellectual property and amount to sea changes in the trademark and copyright infringement realms.

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Copyright and Internet Content

Jonathan Bick

Online publication impacts the duration of copyright protection among other purposes, including optimizing creative and ownership rights and the availability of statutory damages and attorney fees. Thus, it is important to determine when Internet distribution constitutes publication.

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New Small Claims Procedure for Copyright Disputes Image

New Small Claims Procedure for Copyright Disputes

Scott Graham

The CASE Act fulfills the longstanding goal of the U.S. Copyright Office to establish a small claims court. The measure tasked the office with establishing the Copyright Claims Board and adopting governing regulations.

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Copyright Issues In Online Content

Jonathan Bick

Publication of content online impacts the duration of copyright protection among other purposes, including optimizing creative and ownership rights and the availability of statutory damages and attorney fees. Thus, it is important to determine when Internet distribution constitutes publication.

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9th Cir. Finds No Fair Use In Dr. Seuss/Star Trek "Mashup" Image

9th Cir. Finds No Fair Use In Dr. Seuss/Star Trek "Mashup"

Robert J. Bernstein & Robert W. Clarida

In Dr. Seuss Enterprises L.P. v. ComicMix LLC, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held in December that ComicMix's illustrated book combining elements of several Dr. Seuss children's books with characters, themes and other features of the popular sci-fi series Star Trek was not a fair use of the Seuss material from which it had admittedly been "slavishly" copied.

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Legal Issues and Monetization Strategies In a Quarantine-Streaming Music World, Part Two Image

Legal Issues and Monetization Strategies In a Quarantine-Streaming Music World, Part Two

Gwendolyn Seale

Part Two of a two-part article While the livestreaming of music performances is not an entirely new phenomenon, the COVID crisis has transformed the live performance landscape, compelling artists from around the world to reach their fanbase by producing "quarantine streams," in which they livestream their sets on social media platforms. Given this sudden pivot to livestreaming over social media, unsurprisingly many questions have arisen.

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