By one account, Bill O'Reilly's news website includes long quotations from other news organizations, including the mainstream news organizations he often criticizes.

Twelve million scanned books and six years after Google was sued for digitizing entire libraries of books without authorization.

In the first-known application of Wisconsin's two-year-old shield law, Judge Guy Reynolds of the Sauk County Circuit Court refused a request by the state's Department of Justice to issue subpoenas to three journalists who covered an Amish farmer's sale of unpasteurized milk products.

False authorship lawsuit hits West Publishing in the pocket parts. Recently, two law professors successfully sued West Publishing (Thomson Reuters Legal) for defamation after the publisher falsely attributed to them authorship of a pocket part treatise update.

In a case demonstrating the difficulties of applying long-established but arguably outdated legal principles to modern technology, ..

We recently wrote about the Second Circuit's June 30, 2015 decision affirming Judge Denise Cote's decision that Apple conspired with five publishing companies to raise the price of e-books.

On July 26, 2024, Andrew Left, a prominent "securities analyst, trader, and frequent guest commentator on business cable news channels," and his firm...

In a case where two authors sued the publisher of Dan Brown’s bestseller, "The Da Vinci Code" (DVC), and delayed the release of the Hollywood film starring Tom Hanks, the Judge, following established case law, held that the ideas that were copied were too general to be capable of protection. Baigent and Leigh v. Random House Group Limited, Case No. HC04C 03092 (High Court of Justice, Chancery Division Apr. 7, 2006) (P. Smith, J.).

For over a decade, embedding, or "in-line linking," has widely been considered non-infringing.

In April, State Farm debuted a commercial that appeared to feature footage from 1998 of ESPN's Kenny Mayne making startlingly, even eerily, accurate predictions.

Brand messaging shows up everywhere these days, from the screens in our pockets to the sides of sports stadiums.

In October, our colleague Holly Melton read the tea leaves and wrote that the FTC might take steps to revive the "Click-to-Cancel" Rule (the Rule).

The Second Circuit has revived a New York publishing house’s New York based copyright infringement lawsuit against an online publisher.

Scams around the entertainment business are nothing new. And as the allure of the film industry continues to captivate aspiring filmmakers, writers, and actors, scams have proliferated online.

On June 29, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") released its final version of its revised Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising...

Since our members at Mintz Levin constantly work with start-ups, entrepreneurs, and investors, we thought it would be especially beneficial to list the top six summer reads for every start-up as recommended by Tom Burton, Jeremy Glaser, Dan DeWolf, and Sam Effron.

Recent press reports regarding copyright termination notices filed by the heirs of famed comic book illustrator Jack Kirby as well as a recent decision by a federal District Court in a long-running case regarding termination notices filed by the heirs of "Superman" co-creator Jerome Siegel both serve as timely reminders of the substantial complexity of copyright and other intellectual property issues raised by the transfer of valuable intellectual property assets and the critical importance of

The Department of Justice’s new National Fraud Enforcement Division (“NFED”) has told the market exactly where it intends to focus: (1) public trust and financial integrity, (2) health care, (3) internal revenue, (4) global trade and commerce, and (5) corporate misconduct. NFED plans to target these five priorities in parallel under one roof with a shared data infrastructure, compounding the risk to companies that operate at the intersection of multiple priorities and raising the stakes for any company considering a voluntary self-disclosure of potential misconduct.

Videogame IP aside, manga, anime, and webtoons are perhaps the fastest-growing emerging form of underlying rights for live action film and TV adaptation.

We live in a world that has rapidly redefined and blurred the roles of the "creator" of content, as compared to the roles of the "publisher" and "distributor" of such content.