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Supreme Court Resolves Split Regarding Copyright Damages
The Supreme Court recently resolved a question regarding copyright actions that has generated conflicting results in the Courts of Appeal for years, but as a forceful dissent pointed out, it left open a more fundamental issue that could render the entire question moot.'Philpot v. Independent Journal Review'
In 'Philpot v. Independent Journal Review', the Fourth Circuit reversed the district court's findings regarding fair use and copyright registration validity.Phone Home: Inflatable Alien Costume Held Copyrightable
To ring out the old year on an otherworldly note, the Western District of Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction in a case involving the unauthorized copying of an inflatable adult Halloween costume that created the "whimsical" illusion that the wearer was being carried around by a seven-foot-tall green space alien.'Kerson v. Vermont Law School'
In 1993, Kerson and the Vermont Law School entered into an agreement for Kerson to paint two murals on the walls of the upper level of the Chase Community Center. During the summer of 2020, the law school's president received a petition demanding the removal of the murals. Kerson sued the law school, seeking a preliminary injunction enjoining it from placing panels over the murals, invoking his rights under VARA.Big Law Firms Call on Top Law Schools to Condemn Anti-Israel Protests, Harassment
A group of more than 200 leading law firms implored law schools to reign in "anti-Semitic activities" on campus as Israel's response to the Oct. 7 attacks draws protest worldwide.View more book results for the query "Cowan Liebowitz Latman"
Sweet Defeat: 3rd Circuit Says Candymaker Can't Trademark Watermelon's Shape and Colors
"Because the tricolored shape is recognizable as watermelon-flavored, the whole appearance is useful," Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote. "So a candymaker cannot block competitors from using the combined shape and colors by trademarking that combination. We will thus affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment."'Thaler v. Perlmutter': AI Output is Not Copyrightable
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently upheld a final refusal by the U.S. Copyright Office to register a visual work that was not the product of human authorship but was instead created by a computer algorithm. The sole legal issue of the case, Thaler v. Perlmutter, was whether a work autonomously generated by an AI system is copyrightable.Who Got the Work: Day Pitney Partner Steps In to Defend Kas Pet in Trademark Infringement Suit
Day Pitney partner Richard H. Brown has entered an appearance for Kas Pet LLC, a retailer of pet products, in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit.Accrual of Authorship Claims: 'Finch v. Casey'
A discussion of 'Finch v. Casey' concerning 99 songs co-written by Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey—aka KC—while they were members of KC & The Sunshine Band in the 1970s. The case is "one of only a handful of cases touching on the interplay between the Copyright Act's statute of limitations, and its termination-of-transfer provisions."'Flagged Just by Association': Another IP Attorney Files Defamation Suit Over Amazon's 'Blacklist'
It's unknown how many attorneys may have been similarly affected, but this is the second example in a matter of weeks of IP lawyers taking on the world's largest online marketplace over its so-called blacklist.Trending Stories
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