Court Ruling in Georgia Upholds School’s Use of Publication Excerpts May 16, 2012 A federal judge sided with Georgia State University on a range of copyright infringement claims filed by three publishing houses...
Reebok, Nike Settle Suit Over Tebow Apparel Sales April 10, 2012 By Grant McCool and Jonathan Stempel Reebok International Ltd. agreed to settle a lawsuit by rival Nike Inc. and will stop selling New York Jets football...
Viacom Wins Reversal in Landmark Copyright Case vs. Google’s YouTube April 5, 2012 By Jonathan Stempel and Yinka Adegoke A U.S. appeals court has revived lawsuits by Viacom Inc., the English Premier League, and various film studios and television...
Iowa Judge Orders California Porn Site to Pay $4M In Piracy Case February 22, 2012 By Ryan J. Foley A judge has ordered the operators of a popular pornographic website to pay $4 million for copyright infringement to an...
Movie Star Stallone Sued, Accused of Copyright Infringement Over Screenplay October 26, 2011 Action movie star Sylvester Stallone is accused in a lawsuit of copying another writer’s screenplay to make “The Expendables,” a...
Court May Revive Viacom Copyright Claim Against YouTube October 19, 2011 By Grant McCool In a copyright infringement case at the heart of media company battles to win Internet viewers, an appeals court grappled...
How One Music Downloader Could Change Copyright Law October 5, 2011 By Erin Geiger Smith In the age of iTunes and an-app-for-everything, Joel Tenenbaum’s battle with the music industry over illegal downloading seems as relevant...
Supreme Court Rejects Internet Music Copyright Case October 3, 2011 By James Vicini The Supreme Court let stand Monday a ruling that a traditional Internet download of sound recording does not constitute a...
Google Urges Judge Reject Oracle’s $2.2B Patent Damages Claim September 21, 2011 By Jonathan Stempel Google Inc. urged a federal judge to reject an Oracle Corp expert’s recommendation that it pay more than $2.2 billion...
Court Throws Out Writers’ Copyright Settlement with Publishers August 17, 2011 By Jonathan Stempel A federal appeals court voided a class-action settlement in a case brought by freelance writers who accused publishers of reprinting...