Copyrights

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: ‘NBA 2K’ Publisher Beats Copyright Suit Over LeBron James’ Tattoos First off today, Eriq Gardner at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that video game developer Take-Two Interactive has emerged victorious in a battle over a tattoo artist ... Read More

School Lessons on Harry Potter in Britain, Kickstarter Campaign Infringes Nintendo’s Copyright, Supreme Court Upholds Sovereign Immunity of States and more. School Lessons on Harry Potter in Britain Author J.K. Rowling has decided to provide some respite to the teachers and students in Britain, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The ... Read More

A single-judge Bombay High Court bench recently passed an order in the case of Zee Entertainment Enterprises vs. Ameya Vinod Khopkar. The case concerned an alleged infringement of copyright and trademark over the film De Dhakka. The Plaintiff’s had sought a permanent injunction against the Defendants who had produced and ... Read More

On 6 August 2019 the Ondernemingsrechtbank Antwerpen (the court) submitted a request for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on a dispute between Mircom, a company registered under Cypriot law, and Telenet, a Belgian internet service provider whose users presumably shared copyright protected ... Read More

David Leonard is the President of Boston Public Library.  He and his library have endorsed the Internet Archive’s creation of a so-called “National Emergency Library.”  The Library will make available copies of 1.4 million books without permission or compensation to the authors. Forget the nonsense about “eliminating waitlists” that’s a ... Read More

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Allen v. Cooper, which relates to photos and videos of the sunken remains of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the centuries-old ship once captained by the famed pirate Blackbeard. The plaintiff in that case claimed that North Carolina unlawfully used ... Read More

Very good piece by MKW's Dave Steiner on the 5Pointz decision. He finds the damages aspect of the case less interesting than I do and says "the primary significance of the case is that it establishes a test that is highly deferential to experts for when a work of visual ... Read More

Opinion analysis: Congress cannot subject states to suit for pirating and plundering copyrighted material — Writing at SCOTUSBlog, Howard Wasserman breaks down Monday’s decision in Allen v. Cooper, which considered whether states (and state entities) could be sued for copyright infringement. In a unanimous decision (though only a majority opinion), ... Read More

On 12 June 2019, the High Court of the Netherlands referred four questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a preliminary ruling. The questions concern an ongoing battle between Stichting Brein, a Dutch anti-piracy organisation representing movie and music industries, and NSE (News-Service.com), an online ... Read More

The Supreme Court of the United States has held that the state government is free to infringe copyrights without fear of retribution. In Allen v. Cooper, the Supreme Court decided whether the state of North Carolina could be held liable under the Copyright Act for infringing filmmaker Frederick Allen’s copyright ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: ‘Scare Tactics’ Co-Creator Files Copyright Infringement Suit Over Netflix Show ‘Prank Encounters’ First off today, Daniel Goldblatt at The Wrap reports that Scott Hallock, the co-creator of the TV show Scare Tactics, has filed a lawsuit against ... Read More

The Covid 19 pandemic has now changed the way most of us are going about our day to day lives. In India, we are now on day 2 of our 21 day nation wide lock-down. In the midst of all that is going on now, Intellectual Property enthusiasts with a ... Read More

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states can not be held liable for copyright infringement. We went into greater detail the reasons why previously, but it comes down to a concept known as sovereign immunity, which makes it so that states, such as North Carolina, can’t ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Analyzing the Copyright Lawsuit Against LeBron James First off today, Michael McCann at Sports Illustrated reports that photographer Steve Mitchell has filed a lawsuit against NBA star LeBron James over James’ use of a cropped photo Mitchell ... Read More

By: Raf Schoefs and Thomas Gils The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the failure to comply with a clause relating to intellectual property rights in a software license agreement must be regarded as an ‘infringement of intellectual property rights’ within the meaning of the Enforcement ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: U.S. Supreme Court Maroons Filmmaker in Blackbeard Video Piracy Fight First off today, Andrew Chang at Reuters reports that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the state of North Carolina in its dispute with a ... Read More

Story here. Opinion here. Analysis here. Angry tweetstorm here. ... Read More

Public Notice issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has issued a Public Notice in reference to the advisory issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, as part of the precautionary measures to be taken ... Read More

Reprinting Blake Morgan’s inspirational social media post from earlier today: To my sisters and brothers in NYC music, and beyond… The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven asking to be let in, and Saint Peter says, “Of course! Just show us your ... Read More

Blackbeard and his band of pirates pillaged and plundered up and down North Carolina’s Outer Banks more than 300 years ago, inspiring stories (both true and fictional) that capture imaginations to this day. On March 23, the battleground shifted from the watery landscape of Davy Jones’ Locker to the decidedly ... Read More

As much of the world goes into various levels of isolation due to the novel coronavirus, many people are finding themselves at home with relatively little to do. For artists and creatives, this means a wide variety of things. Some are using the extra time as an opportunity to ... Read More

Story here.Here's some background on Meow Wolf from the New York Times Magazine last year: Can an Art Collective Become the Disney of the Experience Economy? They'd reportedly raised $158 million from investors as of last May. ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: WWE Can’t Escape Tattoo Artist’s Copyright Claim First off today, Sara Morgan at World Intellectual Property Review reports that World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Take-Two Interactive failed to get a lawsuit filed against them by a tattoo ... Read More

You probably know DoStuff as Do512 or DoLA or another of their many handles as the premier local events website.  Now that artists are starting to hit the virtual venue space as a real thing, DoStuff has responded with DoStuffAtHome.com which is a directory of the many virtual shows around ... Read More

In these unprecedented times where a pandemic has brought the globe to a standstill, the top-most concern of IP owners (of course, other than to save themselves from COVID-19) would be about meeting deadlines in IP prosecution. This is because, deadlines in IP prosecution are often hard deadlines, and if ... Read More

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Monday granted Katy Perry’s motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) and vacated the jury’s verdicts regarding liability and damages. In particular, the court found that the plaintiffs did not satisfy the extrinsic test, whereby the court ... Read More

SoundExchange joined organizations from across the entertainment community to ask Congress to address the unique nature of our community’s work when it develops an aid package in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading → ... Read More

Derek Fordjour moves to dismiss dealer Robert Blumenthal's complaint against him. Story here. Background here. ... Read More

The world is a lot different than it was a week ago, and that won’t change anytime soon. I hope everyone stays healthy, safe, and secure. Resources for artists and creators — Media, organizations, and individuals have been compiling lists of resources for the creative community, who along with the ... Read More

Image from here Earlier this month, the Supreme Court held that legal pleadings/court records cannot be accessed through the Right to Information Act if the procedure for obtaining them is provided for under the procedural rules of the court (for a wonderful summary of the ... Read More