When it comes to tech powered by generative AI, we are on the verge of a Cambrian Explosion, a period during…
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Door-to-door storage services deliver packing crates to your house and pick them up once they are filled up. It is,…
An advertiser includes an infringing image in an advertising campaign. (It has been known to happen.) The copyright owner sues,…
Tattoos again. (See here and here.) In the early days of the pandemic, tattoo parlors across the country – including one owned by…
In 1927, Calvin Coolidge was president, the first commercial flight of Pan American Airways took off (leaving Key West bound for…
Plaintiff Michael Hayden is an American who, in the late 1980s, was living la dolce vita in Italy, working as an artist…
It’s that time again. The current SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract and the SAG-AFTRA Audio Commercials Contract (the "Commercial Contracts") will expire…
Plaintiff Jacob Aaron Leveille is a visual artist who lives in Florida. (You can check out his work on Instagram.) Defendant…
Pro baller Terry Rozier (our defendant) began his career with the Boston Celtics and now plays for the Charlotte Hornets. Rozier's reputation…
Yet another photo embedding case, but this time Instagram wins based on the court's application of the "server test." The…
The Joint Policy Committee ("JPC") and SAG-AFTRA have issued requirements for producers that wish to issue policies mandating COVID-19 vaccinations…
Since 1949, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Inc. and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (together, the…
I don't think it is possible to love Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, more than I do. I love her recipes:…
Another post about embedding photos using Instagram’s API! As we have written about here and here, in April and June of this year,…
This is a story about the cold-blooded murder of a rock star, the reissue of his famous guitar without permission…
First there was Led Zeppelin. A few weeks later, Katy Perry. And now Josh Groban. All music copyright cases, all from courts…
Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin – a case about the opening licks of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven – has been wending its way through…
Not so long ago (last May), right here in our own galaxy, SAG-AFTRA focused its laser cannons directly at a…
