Cyril Vetter’s new Supreme Court counsel says the worldwide-termination question should percolate. The statute, its drafting history, and the termination notices already circulating say otherwise.
When Cyril Vetter first sued over his 1962 frat-rock anthem “Double Shot (Of My
The court declines to adopt the server test’s fixation-based reasoning but reaches much the same result under a “transmit requirement” that adds a new permission question.
I’ve seen a lot of obituaries for the server test this week. The Fifth
A music photographer says artist Elizabeth Peyton turned his photo of Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher kissing into a painting, which sold at Sotheby’s for $1.92 million.
Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis have spent three decades fighting with
A federal court held that twelve of the Juan Antonio Corretjer poems Roy Brown set to music are in the public domain. Whether Brown had permission to record “Boricua en la Luna” is going to a jury.
Six decades after the JFK assassination, a conspiracy book dragged the Zapruder film into a new copyright dispute. A Dallas judge just decided which claims survive.
The federal courthouse in Dallas is in a boxy slab of a building about
The Crave copyright case was open and shut once a judge compared the books. Getting there took four years and $3.4 million in legal fees.
In her March opinion dismissing Lynne Freeman’s copyright infringement lawsuit over Tracy Wolff’s Crave series,
Five new amicus briefs urge the Supreme Court to undo the Fifth Circuit’s worldwide-reversion rule, warning it would sow international chaos while quietly stripping foreign creators of the very rights it claims to expand.
The Supreme Court justices are on
Reaction videos, reggaetón riddims, nine-year-old tweets, and a poet’s second loss to Taylor Swift. The courts spent the run-up to summer clearing their dockets. Here’s what piled up.
Welcome to a special edition of What’s Up With Copyright Lately, where
Four major music companies bought into a disputed copyright, hired a Supreme Court heavyweight, and filed a cert petition arguing that the Fifth Circuit sent U.S. termination rights on an unauthorized world tour. Now comes the hard part: getting four
The Ninth Circuit granted en banc rehearing in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, vacating the panel opinion and putting “total concept and feel” on the chopping block.
Back in January, I wrote that the concurrences in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, the
