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International Financial Law Prof Blog
Two Attorneys Indicted for Multimillion-Dollar Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain Settlements from Victims Who Downloaded Pornography
Two attorneys were charged today in a federal indictment for their roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme to fraudulently obtain settlement agreements from individuals who supposedly downloaded pornographic movies from file-sharing…
The Faculty Lounge
With 13th, Netflix May Be Relaxing Its Streaming Policy a Little, Which is Good for Educators
Hi - I'm excited to be guest blogging this month about a few topics that I find engaging. I hope they are also relevant to many of you. Thank you…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
CBP Commences Online Recordation of Unregistered Copyrights for Border Enforcement in Accordance with TFTEA
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began accepting online applications for recordation of unregistered copyrights through the Intellectual Property Rights Electronic Recordation System (IPRR). Each unregistered copyright recordation will be…
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY'S FEES
In The News . . . . Ninth Circuit Reverses Sanctions Awards Against Attorney For Making Faces In Courtroom And No Attorney’s Fees Assessed Against The Wolfe Trust In Led Zepplin Copyright Infringement Case
Making Faces In Courtroom, Which Were Found Not To Be Made In Bad Faith, Was Not Sanctionable. Alice S. Kandell, photographer. May 1971. Library of Congress. The Ninth Circuit, in…
Legal Skills Prof Blog
Five Places to Find Free Pictures for Slides, Social Media, Blog Posts, etc.
If you want to improve your presentations by incorporating high quality visuals and avoid any copyright problems, here are five collections of free visuals, compliments of Attorney at Work.Photo by…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
U.S. Authorities Charge Owner of Most-Visited Illegal File-Sharing Website with Copyright Infringement
U.S. authorities have charged Artem Vaulin, 30, of Kharkiv, Ukraine, the alleged owner of today’s most visited illegal file-sharing website with criminal copyright infringement and have seized domain names associated…
International Law Prof Blog
Art Restitution, Preservation of Cultural Heritage, and the Human Right to Identity
The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law has pubilshed its annual symposium issue on the topic of Art Restitution, Preservation of Cultural Heritage, and the Human Right to Identity. Here…
International Law Prof Blog
World Intellectual Property Day
April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day, a time when the world celebrates the role intellectual property plays in innovation and creativity. This year's theme is "Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined.""The way…
International Law Prof Blog
60th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference Opens at The John Marshall Law School
The 60th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference opens today at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago to discuss hot topics in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets law. The…
PropertyProf Blog
Lovett on A Comparative Perspective on Revendicating Movables
John Lovett (Loyola - New Orleans) has posted Professor Longhair's Legacy: A Comparative Perspective on Revendicating Movables (Book Chapter) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This essay addresses the problem of how an…