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As we reported in a recent post, PETA lost its efforts, on behalf of Naruto the monkey, to secure his claim to copyright ownership of his "selfie" photograph.

In this episode, Finnegan partner and leader of Finnegan's copyright practice Anna Chauvet discusses the legal questions raised by the use of generative...

There are few toys as recognizable as the LEGO brick. The tiny plastic brick is the LEGO Group's "most important product,

National Public Radio had a story yesterday on politicians’ use (or misuse) of music at campaign events.

Law360 has posted a useful article by Ben Quarmby about the dangers of employee use of social media to a company's patents, trade secrets, and copyrights.

Last October, the 2nd Circuit held that the Google Books project qualified as fair use. The decision came after a decade long legal battle between the Authors Guild and Google.

After a 10-year legal battle, involving billions of dollars in potential damages, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Google did not violate Oracle's copyrights related to Java programming.

The UK has voted to leave the European Union. This will not affect the UK's position as one of the most important IP jurisdictions in Europe.

The United States Congress has passed the Orrin G. Hatch Music Modernization Act of 2018 ("MMA"), which now heads to President Trump for his signature.

There was a significant ruling in the Doe v. Github case involving training of AI code generator models on open source. The United States Court of Appeals for The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court ruling dismissing part of an action brought under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by programmers against GitHub, Inc., and other defendants. The issues centered on whether defendants removed copyright management information (CMI) from content used to train the AI code generator models.

It should come as no surprise that IP infringement is rampant on the internet—we regularly assist our clients with Internet-related legal issues.

UK-based graffiti artists filed a lawsuit against Vivienne Westwood for allegedly using their street art without permission on fashion apparel, raising complex questions about copyright protection for potentially illegal artwork. The case, which centered on whether graffiti created without building owners' consent could be legally protected under US law, has now been dismissed with prejudice following a joint stipulation by both parties.

The bill to extend intellectual property protection to the fashion industry, S. 3523, the substance of which we reported recently, has passed the US Senate Judiciary Committee without amendment.

In 1990, Congress passed the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act ("CRCA"), and in 1992 passed the Trademark Remedy Clarification Act ("TRCA") and the Patent and Plant Variety Protection Remedy Clarification Act.

In this episode of Williams Mullen Manufacturing Edge, Intellectual Property Partner Rick Matthews identifies the benefits and limitations of patents, copyrights, trademarks...

Plaintiff Amy Ruocco, acting pro se, accused Sandra Deveau, Sara Hazel, and Xavier Group KW Coastal & Lakes and Mountains of infringing Ruocco’s copyright in photographs...

As we recently reported here, a new Internet-connected software application, called "ivi tv", was just released that allows pc, mac and linux end users to stream live feeds from over-the-air television stations to their computers anywhere in the world.