RightsCorp Has Some High Hurdles to Clear Before it Even Gets to Repeat Infringers Typical. I read about a truly significant lawsuit, start blogging about what is obviously the main issue—an issue that has significance beyond the lawsuit—only to discover in analyzing...
It took a week to get through the files that were sitting on my desk when I returned, so I let a week go by without writing about the INTA Leadership Meeting that happened in Phoenix, Arizona earlier this month. It was the biggest Leadership Meeting yet, with over...
‘Tis Often Better to Willfully Withhold Royalties than Exceed the Scope of the License You are a licensee to many, many copyright licenses, whether you know it or not. Most of them—such as the ordinary applications you have on your computer, or song files you’ve...
Last year we did a thing we don’t do very often – told you about a complaint that had been filed before any decision had been issued, in the case of Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate. The issue was whether the characters of Holmes and Watson were in the public...
Do the TVEyes Have It? Welcome back to another episode of Is it Fair Use?, the fast-paced, brain-teasing game that’s sweeping the nation1Really, really slowly.! TVEyes charges $500 a month to monitor about 1400 television and radio stations, 24 hours a day, seven days...
Is it Fair Use? We haven’t played Is it Fair Use? since we started the IP Breakdown (though we had several editions on our firm site). If you aren’t familiar, it’s the fast-paced game that’s sweeping the nation1Very slowly. where I present you the facts of a recently...
