We have recently been talking in this space about intellectual property licensing. A California Court of Appeal recently decided Olive v. General Nutrition Centers, Inc., an interesting licensing dispute in which the defendant admitted having engaged in activity that...
Month: January 2019
IP licensing goals and protections: Leave no stone unturned
Last week we introduced some basics about intellectual property licensing. In that post, we explained that license agreements facilitate formal relationships between entities that own intellectual property like trademarks or copyrights, and individuals or businesses...
Youth theater infringes copyrights in musicals
Student, youth, nonprofit, and local theater companies must be careful to obtain permission and licensing to stage copyrighted plays and musicals. Even performance groups that may think of themselves as amateur or small scale must consider whether they are crossing...
Careful licensing of intellectual property
At our law firm, we advise and represent clients in a wide range of issues regarding intellectual property licensing. In such a license, the owner of intellectual property grants to another person or company the right to use the intellectual property like a trademark,...
Court refuses to dismiss photographer’s copyright claims
At our law firm, we represent photographers and other creative artists in a variety of copyright matters, including negotiating, drafting and reviewing licenses for use of copyrighted materials. We also bring and defend copyright infringement suits.On January 4, a...
US high court rejects de Havilland’s right of publicity suit
Throughout 2018, we have followed in this space two-time Oscar-winning actor Olivia de Havilland's lawsuit against the creators of FX's docudrama series, Feud: Bette and Joan. On January 7, the U.S. Supreme Court refused without any comment to hear her case, in which...
Judge finds insufficient evidence of DMCA violation
The Internet provides a vast platform on which creative works in written, photographic, film and video formats can be reproduced. Unfortunately, this also creates a bigger universe within which parties can violate copyrights by posting protected works online without...
Many copyrighted works lose copyright protection in New Year
On New Year's Day, 2019, hundreds of thousands of creative works will enter the public domain when their copyright protections expire. An article in Smithsonian Magazine explains the interesting phenomena of this massive expiration after 20 years with no copyright...