Covering major verdicts and appellate decisions in the copyright arena
By Riley Brennan | June 1, 2023
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
2 minute read
By Mason Lawlor | May 31, 2023
In the midst of multiple battles over the legal copyrights to one of the most successful video games of all time, game developer Krafton is awaiting a jury verdict in the Northern District of California on an allegedly breached settlement over the rights to its hugely popular "PUBG: Battlegrounds."
3 minute read
By Emily Cousins | May 25, 2023
"Black Diamond demanded [attorney William] Bucher be fired, threatening to pull all work from Zaiger LLC and to sue Jeff Zaiger, Bucher, and Zaiger LLC if Bucher was not fired," the complaint alleges.
4 minute read
By ALM Staff | May 19, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read
By Riley Brennan | May 19, 2023
"... [E]ven if those agreements were some evidence of the transaction of business in Massachusetts, jurisdiction would not lie because the claims here at issue do not arise from the alleged in-forum activity." the court wrote.
5 minute read
By Robert W. Clarida and Thomas Kjellberg | May 19, 2023
With the Stanley Cup just around the corner, this month's column deals with a recent case from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Grondin v. Fanatics, which involves an item of hockey memorabilia called "Slice of the Ice," a "Lucite sculpture in the approximate shape of the Stanley Cup, with a hockey puck–shaped piece in the center filled with melted ice gathered from the rink used in a prominent hockey game."
8 minute read
By Jimmy Hoover | May 18, 2023
Decision spurs unusually sharp back-and-forth between Justice Sonia Sotomayor's majority opinion and Justice Elena Kagan's dissent on the fair-use doctrine.
5 minute read
By Stephen M. Kramarsky and John Millson | May 15, 2023
Over the past few months, AI voice tools have been more widely released, and they work. It is trivial to use them to create a track that sounds, to the casual listener, like it was recorded by the famous artist of your choosing, and the micro-genre of AI-generated "covers" of existing songs by anomalous artists (or other public figures, like President Biden) has exploded on TikTok. So what legal recourse, if any, do these artists have?
11 minute read
By Colleen Murphy | May 12, 2023
"We see no reason to disagree with the Restatement or our sister circuits in this regard, at least with respect to the broad outlines of the alternative-determinations doctrine as the Restatement describes it," stated Chief Judge David J. Barron. "Indeed, as the Restatement and our sister circuits recognize, there are good reasons for applying the doctrine, at least in some circumstances."
6 minute read
By ALM Staff | May 12, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read
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