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...
Amazon Sued by Publishers Claiming Audible Text Service Violates Copyright August 26, 2019 Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible was sued by some of the top U.S. publishers for copyright infringement on Friday, aiming to block...
Judges May Be Reaching Limit with Copyright Profiteering by Pornography Sellers August 6, 2019 By Susan Decker and Christopher Yasiejko Pornography producers and sellers account for the lion’s share of copyright-infringement lawsuits in the U.S. — and judges may have...
Los Angeles Jury to Decide Damages Owed by Katy Perry for ‘Dark Horse’ July 31, 2019 By Andrew Dalton A jury’s verdict that Katy Perry’s 2013 hit “Dark Horse” improperly copied a 2009 Christian rap song represents a rare...