Actor Cohen Sues Cannabis Firm for $9M Over Use of ‘Borat’ Image on Billboard July 13, 2021 By Andrew G. Simpson Film and television actor Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his movie character Borat, is suing a Massachusetts cannabis firm...
UK Judge Rules Newspaper Violated Duchess Meghan’s Privacy in Publishing Letter February 16, 2021 By Jill Lawless LONDON — A newspaper invaded the Duchess of Sussex’s privacy by publishing personal letter to her estranged father, a British...
Court Allows Dr. Seuss’s Estate to Sue ComicMix Over ‘Star Trek’ Mashup December 21, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel Dr. Seuss’s estate may sue the publisher of a “Star Trek”-themed “mash-up” of the famed children’s author’s final book because...
How Pandemic, Contracts Focus Intellectual Property Insurance on Intangible Assets October 9, 2020 By Madeleine Brown The demand for intellectual property (IP) cover has been increasing year on year as businesses become more aware of the...
Supreme Court Hears Google’s Appeal of Oracle’s $8 Billion Copyright Claim October 7, 2020 By Jan Wolfe and Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday as it considered whether to protect Alphabet Inc.’s Google from a long-running...
Adviser to EU Judges Says Online Platforms Not Liable for User Copyright Violations July 16, 2020 By Marine Strauss Google’s YouTube and other online platforms are not liable when users illegally upload copyrighted works onto their platforms, but rightholders...
Big Publishers Sue Digital ‘Emergency Library’ Offering Free Books During Coronavirus June 2, 2020 By Hillel Italie Four of the country’s biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has...
Judge Quashes Peloton’s Countersuit in Music Copyright Case February 3, 2020 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Peloton Interactive Inc.’s attempt to fire back at music publishers who sued the exercise bike maker for copyright infringement was...
Supreme Court Will Hear Google’s Latest Effort to End Oracle’s Copyright Claim November 18, 2019 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Google’s bid to escape Oracle Corp.’s multi-billion dollar lawsuit accusing Google...
Music Copyright Law in Search of New Standard for Infringement September 23, 2019 By Edvard Pettersson Willie Nelson has famously said a country song is “three chords and the truth.” It might not be so simple...