The last time Disney's copyright on the 1923 cartoon Steamboat Willie was due to expire, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act to prevent Mickey Mouse from entering ...
The Supreme Court is poised to hear an important copyright case - Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com - which will answer whether rightsholders must wait until the Copyright Office has acted ...
An appellate court issued a ruling today upholding a lower court's dismissal of patent infringement claims filed against Netflix, Hulu and Amazon by a company called Digital Media Technologies. The ...
In a ruling issued late last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's finding that a registered subscriber of an IP address associated with infringing activity ...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear the case Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, a copyright case which hinges on the question of how far along a ...
In a recently published paper, law professors Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman argue that data-driven content production models may gradually render strong enforcement of intellectual property laws unnecessary. While ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled in favor of playwright Matthew Lombardo, finding the lower court was correct in ruling Lombardo's play Who's Holiday! is ...
VENICE, Calif. – In her recent piece for VICE about an artificial intelligence-assisted fake celebrity-porn video created by a Redditor who goes by the handle “deepfakes,” Samantha Cole raised a ...
DANVILLE, Ill. – As you’ve no doubt heard by now, infamous “copyright troll” attorney John Steele has been disbarred, an unsurprising development in the wake of his pleading guilty to fraud ...
By Mick Masnike Special to YNOT REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – How many times has this happened to you: You’re surfing links on ThePirateBay, just looking for a decent, currently-in-theaters movie ...
