There are several active and pending lawsuit directed at Epic Games (and other companies that have used similar dances) for the dances to be found in the...
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Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images Alfonso Ribeiro on Dancing with the Stars. The U.S. Copyright Office is skeptical about Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor Alfonso...
The U.S. Copyright Office is skeptical about Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor Alfonso Ribeiro’s ownership claim over the signature "Carlton...
from the just-admit-it dept As was widely expected, even if it’s unfortunately, on Friday evening the EU Council voted to move forward with the latest...
from the never-ending dept As we discussed, over the weekend, France and Germany agreed to a deal to get the EU Copyright Directive moving forward again...
From left: Noelle Westbom, Ben Wetherell and Georgia Tanner gathered at Kellogg-Hubbard Library, in Montpelier, to discuss two of Alan Gratz’s books:...
A study carried out by Swedish ISP Bahnhof has revealed that copyright trolls targeted more than 10 times as many IP addresses in Sweden during 2018 than they...
On Jan. 1, 2019, all books, movies, photos and songs originally published in the United States in 1923 entered the public domain. On Jan. 1, 2020, the same...
ARIN is proposing that a detailed identity-based IP address database is maintained in the USA and Canada. The organization fears that the rise of the IPv6 will...
Apparently the producers of the movie "Where Hands Touch," which is being widely panned as terrible (NY Times calls it a "gut-wrenching...
A Wall Street performance coach who specializes in trading psychology is suing the creators of Billions , saying she was the uncredited, and uncompensated...
EXCLUSIVE: “I got to a point where I could no longer live with myself and be the mother I wanted to be, be the Amber I always dreamed of being if I...
A number of educators have reported widespread copyright infringement of their own work and of commercially-produced educational materials on the site Teachers...
After being ordered to block a number of piracy-related domains following a complaint from academic publisher Elsevier, Swedish ISP Bahnhof retaliated by...
A Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a ‘sizzle reel’ to pitch a horror story collection to production companies has been hit with a takedown...
TV URBAN LEGEND : A typo accidentally made Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV Special public domain. Everyone knows the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer...
Co-author Erika Lee contributed to this post * As a creative freelancer, you will find yourself having to contract your work out to a variety of parties, who...
This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the Washington Conference on Nazi-Era Assets and the corollary Washington Principles on Nazi-confiscated Art that have...
(graphic Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic, original image via Last month, I wrote about how the tax law passed in 2017 — officially the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
Tweet Share Email Can I show a video from Netflix in my classroom? Can I make 25 copies from my favorite math workbook? I just need three more copies of our...
In a democracy, people should have the right to read, and publish, the law. In theory, that should be easier than ever today. The Internet has vastly improved...
It’s not uncommon to come across a document, pamphlet, or other resource with the words “All Rights Reserved” stamped across the bottom. But...
This photo shows a mural painted by Swiss artist SMASH 137 on the 10th floor of the Z Parking Garage in Detroit. SMASH 137 says General Motors should not have...
Nagel Auktionen has held sales abroad to bypass stringent German provenance requirements German auction houses are struggling with increased bureaucracy and a...
You need not suffer losing your IP for your art. My firm’s international IP lawyers get the saddest emails. With the fraying of relations between China...
from the free-money-for-trolls dept Going all the way back to 2012, we were highlighting why a copyright "small claims court" might be problematic ...
While there may not be consensus on what they are, there is a shared belief that U.S. copyright law has some serious problems. But the CASE Act, which aims to...
The painted cerulean tiles of a mermaid mural that some residents called “iconic” have been chipped away from the wall of the Neptunian...
The painted cerulean tiles of a mermaid mural that some residents called “iconic” have been chipped away from the wall of the Neptunian...
U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson of the Central District of California recently issued an order granting-in-part and denying-in-part a motion for summary...
In recent years hundreds of thousands of IP-addresses have been implicated in piracy lawsuits. But does that mean that the account holder is always liable...
Courtesy of Cadillac A warning to filmmakers: If graffiti is visible in background scenery, think long and hard about getting a license from the graffiti...
This could be your chance to own (a share of) a Warhol. Getty Images/Kaitlyn Flannagan for Observer This could be your chance to own (a share of) a Warhol...
The opening of the Court of Arbitration for Art and what it could mean for Canadian art law disputes
[co-author: Alexandra Terrell – summer law student] On June 8, 2018, the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA), a new international arbitration institution...
The opening of the Court of Arbitration for Art and what it could mean for Canadian art law disputes
[co-author: Alexandra Terrell – summer law student] On June 8, 2018, the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA), a new international arbitration institution...
Hermann Göring leaving the Goudstikker art dealership at the Herengracht 458, Amsterdam © Wikicommons 1931 The Jewish collector and dealer Jacques...
The high court has ruled that a £10m painting by the 14th-century Florentine master Giotto was removed from Italy unlawfully, rendering it...
“Adam” and “Eve” by Lucas Cranach the Elder. The painting hangs in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. (Courtesy photo) Norton Simon...
Scammers, masquerading as legitimate copyright holders such as Netflix and Disney, are using Google DMCA takedown tools to manipulate search results. Some...
Despite two lost legal battles in the US, domain name seizures, and millions of dollars in damage claims, Sci-Hub continues to offer unauthorized access to...
“Adam” and “Eve” by Lucas Cranach the Elder. The painting hangs in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. (Courtesy photo) Norton Simon...
“Adam” and “Eve” by Lucas Cranach the Elder. The painting hangs in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. (Courtesy photo) Norton Simon...
“The winner from the break is the rider who won’t bargain for anything less. Even with himself.” Matt Seaton goes up the road in search of...
With a new plan for UK-EU relations post-Brexit announced earlier this month, art market pundits are looking afresh at the potential consequences for...
A US Court of Appeal has upheld the right of the heirs of victims of Nazi looting to seek the restitution of treasured artefacts worth US$250-300 million...
The artist Laddie John Dill, a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit from 2011 seeking royalties under state law. Mr. Dill said of artists: “If...
Sotheby’s New York. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images) Artists hoping to get paid when their work sells for millions of dollars at auction may be...
This is a crazy story about the Statute of Liberty, a Las Vegas hotel, and the U.S. Postal Service. Oh, and it’s also about copyright infringement. It...
The Statue of Liberty is a beloved American symbol. That’s why, in 1996, the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, commissioned a...
Copyright experts were left scratching their heads after a U.S. judge ruled an image lifted from the Flickr page of a professional photographer and used by a...
A Virginia federal court has made a decision that photographers won’t be happy to hear: the court ruled that finding a photo on the Internet and then...
The 9th Circuit is at it again with copyright. For whatever reason, when the 9th Circuit gets a copyright case, it frequently seems to mess everything up about...
Grumpy Cat (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) One simply does not mess with the memes. That’s the message European leaders are hearing from...
A photo of Getty Villa featured on its Facebook page. An Italian court ruled this month that a statue in the Los Angeles museum belongs to Italy. NEW YORK...
An Italian court has ruled that this Greek bronze, known as “Statue of a Victorious Youth,” rescued from the ocean decades ago and long on display...
But the watercolours are currently at the centre of a closely watched restitution lawsuit Woman Hiding Her Face (1912) by Egon Schiele, one of the works that...
But the watercolours are currently at the centre of a closely watched restitution lawsuit Woman Hiding Her Face (1912) by Egon Schiele, one of the works that...
The issues that come before Judge Noel L. Hillman in federal court in Camden, N.J., involve the usual sober matters — allegations of Medicaid fraud or...
female Celebes crested macaque Self-portrait of a female Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra) in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, who had picked up photographer...
PARIS, FRANCE – MAY 03: A gamer plays the video game ‘Fortnite: Battle Royale’ developed by People Can Fly and Epic Games. Fortnite is an...