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September 21, 2007 |

Copyright Law

Robert Jay Bernstein, who practices with The Law Office of Robert Jay Bernstein, and Robert W. Clarida, a partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, write that while the fortunate few may be listing their yachts on one of the competing databases run by the parties to BUC v. Yacht Council, the rest of us can appreciate the court's balancing of the two main issues arising in compilation cases: (i) copyrightability; and (ii) the scope of protection.
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March 18, 2005 |

Copyright Law

Robert J. Bernstein, an attorney in New York City and the immediate past president of the Copyright Society of the USA, and Robert W. Clarida, a partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, write that every state recognizes the right of individuals to prevent the unauthorized use of their names and likenesses for commercial purposes. Some states, including New York, consider this a civil right similar to the right of privacy, but elsewhere the concept is termed a "right of publicity."
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January 17, 2008 |

Copyright Law

Robert Jay Bernstein, a practitioner in The Law Office of Robert J. Bernstein, and Robert W. Clarida, a partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, write that absent reconsideration, a number of thorny issues will await the parties in In Re: Literary Works Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation on remand, including whether freelancers may register their works now and then join a new class consisting only of registered copyright holders.
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March 17, 2006 |

Copyright Law

Robert J. Bernstein, an attorney, and Robert W. Clarida, a partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, write that the U.S. Copyright Office issued a Notice of Inquiry last year regarding the issue of "orphan works," copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or impossible to locate. As a result, the public is denied the benefit of access to these works, even though in the vast majority of cases there is no copyright owner who would object to their use.
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January 20, 2012 |

Oldies but Goodies: Federal Protection for Pre-1972 Recordings?

In their Copyright Law column, Robert J. Bernstein of The Law Office of Robert J. Bernstein and Robert W. Clarida, a partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, review the Register of Copyrights' recently-issued report recommending that federal copyright protection be expanded to pre-1972 sound recordings without disturbing ownership rights and contracts based on state law.
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November 21, 2008 |

Copyright Law

Robert J. Bernstein, a practitioner at The Law Office of Robert J. Bernstein, and Robert W. Clarida, a partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, after two years of arduous negotiations, groups of authors and publishers and Google issued a joint press release announcing a comprehensive settlement agreement regarding "Google Book Search." If finally approved, the Settlement may represent a sea change in the approach to resolving conflicts between copyright- and technology-based industries, wherein technology becomes a source of new revenue streams for content owners rather than a facilitator of infringement.
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May 18, 2007 |

Copyright Law

Practitioner Robert J. Bernstein and Robert W. Clarida, a partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, analyze a recent case which demonstrates the degree to which copyright law has become truly international and multinational. Not only do the copyright regimes of other countries and the Berne Convention dramatically impact current U.S. copyright law and copyright exploitation strategy, they have also reached into and rewritten the history of our public domain.
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December 16, 2005 |

New York Attorney Bests Disney in Winnie-the-Pooh Ruling

Every time a Winnie-the-Pooh doll is sold, the widow and daughter of a far-sighted dealer in artistic rights will continue to receive a cut, thanks to the handiwork of intellectual property lawyer Roger L. Zissu of Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu in New York. In scoring a victory for his clients, Zissu also felled two giants: the Walt Disney Corp., and David Nimmer, author of the highly respected treatise, "Nimmer on Copyright," who represented the Milne family interests.
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Viacom and Time Warner Square Off in Dueling Lawsuits Over iPad Application
Publication Date: 2011-04-08
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Viacom--represented by Arnold & Porter--accuses Time Warner of breaching its licensing contract by offering subscribers an iPad application to watch programming. Time Warner--represented by Cowan Liebowitz & Latman and Cahill Gordon & Reindel--counters that the contract grants it a broad license to distribute Viacom programming.

March 21, 2003 |

Copyright Law

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