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PrawfsBlawg
Disaster Humor – part 2
Main Saturday, March 28, 2020Disaster Humor - part 2Still trying to consume jokes and funnies about our very not funny reality. In my first post about disaster humor I promised…
SDNY Blog
Judge Swain: Depicting NBA Players’ Tattoos in Video Game Is “Fair Use”
In an opinion today, Judge Swain concluded that it was "fair use" for to the makers of the NBA 2K video games to depict players' tattoos (see our prior coverage…
School Law
Remote Learning and Avoiding Copyright Infringement
By Dori Pagé Antonetti, Gwen J. Zittoun
As schools quickly transition to remote learning models in order to educate students during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand copyright implications and how to avoid claims of…
The Traklight Blog
Netflix Chooses Wrong, Loses Bid to Have $25 Million Copyright Lawsuit Tossed
By Mike Willee
It's inevitable that artistic works of art reference other works, particularly in our present nostalgia-fueled moments. Usually it's just an homage, but more and more you see things directly referenced,…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ginsburg on the Fair Use Factor Revisited: Valuing the “Value of the Copyrighted Work” @ColumbiaLaw
Jane Ginsburg, Columbia Law School, is publishing Essay – Fair Use Factor Four Revisited: Valuing the ‘Value of the Copyrighted Work’ in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the…
Subscript Law Blog
The Supreme Court Copyright Battle Between Google and Oracle Will Confront “Fair Use” of Software
Argument: March 24, 2020Petitioner Brief: GoogleRespondent Brief: OracleDecision: TBA Court Below: Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Google and Oracle will soon argue before the Supreme Court over the scope of…
Chicago IP Litigation
CLE: Potential Pitfalls in Copyright: Fair Use & Data Compilations
UIC John Marshall’s Center for Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy has another excellent program, this one focuses on two key copyright issues – fair use and copyright data protection. Every…
Michael Geist
Taking Value out of the Copyright Tariff Process: The Copyright Board’s Access Copyright Post-Secondary Tariff Decision
In March 2010, Access Copyright filed a tariff proposal with the Copyright Board to cover copying at post-secondary institutions in Canada. The proposed rate was $45 per year per university…
Close-Ups
Court Deems Screenshot Fair Game for Fair Use Defense in Copyright Action
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York recently dismissed a claim of copyright infringement against Mic Network, Inc. over its use of a partial screenshot…
Close-Ups
That’s So Punny! Trademark Rights in Puns and Wordplay
By David E. Fink, Lee S. Brenner
Lettuce Turnip the Beet: When puns are "functional" In LTTB LLC v. Redbubble, Inc., plaintiff LTTB, an online apparel company, contended its success was "largely due to public fascination with…