All We Really Learned Is that Even Big Corporations Don’t Always Run Things by Counsel. We have learned quite a lot about the contours of the DMCA safe harbors over the last few years, thanks to record labels swinging for the fences, Viacom and Google’s tenacity in...
Maybe Spotify Isn’t Cannibalizing Music Sales, But Artists Still Aren’t Getting Paid1Although Aaron | Sanders is based in Nashville, we don’t really represent songwriters or artists. There are lots of “music” and “entertainment” lawyers to handle that work....
Yoga poses are not copyrightable. Monkeys can maybe have copyright, if people who really care about them can take the case to court. We’ve got a termination decision from the Second Circuit, and oh, yeah, the Google Books project is fair use. TGIF! Bikram...
tl;dr Summary The DMCA’s procedure for taking down allegedly infringing material is (ahem) nearly universally disliked. Rights holders can’t figure out why it’s so hard to take infringing material down, and consumers and service providers can’t figure out why it’s so...
I Fought (for) the Law; Who Wins? When I started law school, I had only the vaguest idea of what lawyers did. I figured it had something to do with arguing in front of juries and judges, writing legal briefs and contracts. That’s what I expected to learn in law...
As Between the Director and the Producers, Who Owns a Movie’s Copyright? When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out the award for Best Picture, the award goes to the movie’s producers. The director, the actors, the cinematographers, make-up...
