Good morning, PR pros: The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a guide, “Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers,” which outlines rules...
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Locast founder David Goodfriend speaking at the TV of Tomorrow Show. Dade Hayes David Goodfriend , founder of controversial not-for-profit outfit Locast , said...
Tal R Paris Chic, 2017 A Danish court has ruled an artist’s copyright in a painting, which he has sold, extends to pieces of the work that have been cut...
The Danish artist Tal R has won an injunction against a pair of Faroese art provocateurs who wanted to cut up one of his paintings and use the canvas to make...
from the try-that-again? dept Copyright troll Mathew Higbee and lawyer Paul Levy, described as "the web bully’s worst enemy" , have been...
In Bell Media Inc. v. GoldTV.Biz , 2019 FC 1432, the Federal Court dealt with a novel motion in Canada for a “site-blocking order”. The...
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Georgia v Public.Resource.Org next week, on the first day of its December argument session. An outsider might be...
from the say-what-now? dept Earlier this week we already covered infamous and oft-sanctioned copyright troll lawyer, Richard Liebowitz, showing up in court to...
image via complaint Supreme is being sued for allegedly jacking another company’s camouflage print for a range of its ultra-hot-selling wares. According...
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Recent cases involving stolen art have raised questions over the behaviour of diplomats Up for grabs: art in the mostly abandoned Venezuelan embassy in...
The Omniverse One World Television saga appears to have reached its end. Several major Hollywood studios, represented by The Alliance for Creativity and...
Recent cases involving stolen art have raised questions over the behaviour of diplomats Up for grabs: art in the mostly abandoned Venezuelan embassy in...
In most states, a quick Google search will lead a researcher to a wealth of information about his state laws, posted by none other than the government itself...
Have you renewed your DMCA Designated Agent designation with the Copyright Office yet? (If you are unfamiliar with a DMCA Designated Agent, read below for an...
from the what-the-actual-fuck? dept Hollywood hates fair use. Even though Hollywood frequently relies on fair use, it seems to go out of its way to fight...
While collecting art works is becoming an increasingly popular & sexy hobby for affluent individuals, the financial & legal risks involved in such...
from the playas-gonna-play dept Why is the 9th Circuit so horrendously bad at copyright law? This question comes up way too often. Last year we wrote about a...
The Copyright Amendment Bill will expedite the development of open educational resources. A big barrier to lifelong learning can be the cost of resources...
The Copyright Amendment Bill will expedite the development of open educational resources. A big barrier to lifelong learning can be the cost of resources...
In this image taken from DynaStudy’s lawsuit against Houston ISD, lawyers for the company illustrate how they believe a school district teacher cropped...
Introduction Industrial property lawyers in Italy have been given cause for reflection following the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ’s) recent...
Brief Summary A California appellate court recently extended the application of a longstanding "totality of the circumstances" legal analysis of...
Celebrities are constantly the subject of photographs . Everywhere they go, they’re surrounded by cameras clicking away as they capture images of them...
Tweet Images from Shutterstock.com. It’s no secret that people make copies of photographs and use them on their own websites or in other materials, says...
A pile of DVD cases with DVDs on top (Getty Images) BANGOR ( BDN ) — Whether a former Bangor-area businessman willfully violated copyright law when he...
The Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building Whether a former Bangor-area businessman willfully violated copyright law when he pirated movies and allegedly...
Justin Bieber posted a paparazzi photo to his Instagram page without credit, and is now reportedly being sued, according to court documents obtained by E...
CHIRSTIE’S EDUCATION ANNOUNCES: -The recipient of the inaugural Christie’s Education Reginald Browne Joint Scholarship in the US -Scholarship...
In a judgment handed down on 24 September 2019, the General Court of the European Union has ruled that intellectual property rights in the iconic Vespa LX...
As regular readers of Socially Aware already know, there are many potential traps for companies that use photographs or other content without authorization...
(Photo by David Lat). Mercedes-Benz has shifted into overdrive in its attack on the rights of street artists. Four such creatives — James Lewis, Daniel...
LastLast spring, just as she made the semifinals for the James Beard Awards for the second year in a row, Butcher & Bee pastry chef Cynthia Wong lawyered...
A number of changes to the Enforcement Rules of the Design Protection Act came into effect on October 1 st 2019. The main changes — which are generally...
Audible attorneys this week asked for the case to be referred to a Magistrate judge for a settlement conference, but after the publisher plaintiffs rejected...
[co-author: Ertuğrul Akıncı] Today, we live in a world surrounded by virtual reality. Virtual reality is commonly used in advertising, video games, cinema...
Cyber criminals are now targeting Instagram users in their latest scams which are aimed at getting users to share their account details and personal...
Facebook has removed a five-year-old link to a TorrentFreak article, presumably over a ‘copyright infringing’ meme. The social media platform took...
But on Sept. 25, Google stirred up a hornet’s nest when it revealed that it had no such intention . “We don’t accept payment from anyone to...
"When the French law comes into force, we will no longer post an overview of the content in France for European news publishers, unless the publisher has...
LightRocket via Getty Images Another security notice has been issued over an Instagram phishing attack. As the team at Sophos explains , “this time the...
from the lie-with-infringers… dept We recently discussed Nintendo’s lawsuit against RomUniverse, part of a longstanding war on ROM sites that seems...
Download portal RomUniverse plans to put up a fight against Nintendo. The site, which the game publisher accuses of brazen and mass-scale copyright...
The dispute centers around photographs of the works of Pablo Picasso. In the early 1900s, Christian Zervos, working directly with Picasso, compiled some 16,000...
After being targeted by massive legal action in 2017, TVAddons founder Adam Lackman is still hoping to put up a fight against several major Canadian media...
What you need to know A few days ago, a French court ruled that Valve had to allow gamers to resell their digital purchases on Steam. This is similar to what...
Graffiti and, more broadly, street art was once considered more of a nuisance than an art form. While the circumstances of its creation may be legally...
One of the murals that was prominently used without permission in the backdrop of a Mercedes-Benz ad. Mercedes-Benz argued in a federal lawsuit that it has the...
There are many things to think about when you’re starting a new business. In addition to the financial, marketing and other business matters, there are...
(Image via Getty) In recent weeks, the Gibson Guitar Company has been unfairly painted by certain not-entirely-objective interests on the internet as an IP...
Every so often, a rash of identical posts starts to take over social media. This isn’t the work of bots, but the result of a number of people believing...
"Brand Twitter" — the collection of snarky, self-aware social media accounts designed to appeal to millennials by projecting personalities onto...
A jigsaw puzzle using an image of Byodoin temple’s Phoenix Hall (Yasukazu Akada) A temple in the ancient capital has been broken up into 300...
Disney ‘s corporate lobbying means a whole host of characters and concepts are still in copyright, when they’d otherwise be in the public domain...
France has been a country with a notable history right from the medieval period. Its one of the countries that have made the world a better place, and have...
The best brand marketers on Twitter are often praised for how human they sound and how much modern social savvy they bring to their posts. But sometimes...
ATLANTA–Increasingly, people across the U.S. are representing themselves in court for divorces, child custody agreements and other types of cases. These...
“Amici Curiae supporting Public.Resource.Org fear that if the Supreme Court sides with the State of Georgia, those unwilling or unable to purchase a...
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A recent decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that even though there is nothing original about a banana, it may nevertheless be subject...