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Righthaven loses on fair-use defense
The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that Judge Mahan orally ruled on Friday March 18, 2011 that the Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO) was free to re-publish an entire thirty-three paragraph Las...
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Ninth Circuit Holds that Script Ideas and Concepts Protected by Implied Contract
Ideas and concepts for movies and television shows are not protectable under copyright law. So if you approach a movie director with a script for the next summer blockbuster and the director takes...
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Rival Photographer with Similar Style is not Copyright Infringer
Photographer Janine Gordon ("Gordon") filed a lawsuit against rival art photographer Ryan McGinley ("McGinley") claiming that McGinley infringed more than 150 of her photographs. Gordon also sued...
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Restricting Software to Certain Hardware is not Copyright Misuse - Apple Inc....
These days, software is not "sold" it is "licensed." Although you bought and paid for the software, you do not own the software and never will. One of the primary reasons software is licensed is to...
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Artist sues Green Day, Looses, Slapped with Attorney's Fees
In 2003 artist Derek Seltzer created a work titled "Scream Icon" show below: Seltzer printed posters and stickers of his art and placed them around Los Angeles on buildings, street signs and other...
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Is the sale of "used" digital tracks music piracy? Capitol Records vs. ReDigi
ReDigi bills itself as the first "online marketplace for pre-owned digital music." Users upload their "used" digital music to the ReDigi marketplace for sale. ReDigi then sells the "used" music for...
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Oracle v. Google - Can you Copyright a Computer Language?
In Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., Case No. C 10-03561 (U.S. Dist. Court, Northern District of California, 2012), Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement for "replicating elements of the...
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Harney v. Sony Pictures: Is a recreated photograph copyright infringement?
Plaintiff Donald A. Harney is a professional photographer who took a picture of a father, Clark Rockefeller, and daughter, Reigh Rockefeller, leaving church on April 1, 2007. The photograph appeared...
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SOFA Entertainment v. Dodger Productions: is use of a seven second video clip...
A seven second clip of Ed Sullivan introducing the Four Seasons on The Ed Sullivan Show was used in the musical Jersey Boys about the group. The defendants argued that it used the clip for its...
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