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Last year street artist Joseph Tierney, better known as "Rime," sued designer Moschino S.p.A. and its creative director, Jeremy Scott...

After a two-year investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice has decided not to seek modification of longstanding music licensing consent decrees with the ASCAP and Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI).

There is a time and place for everything, or so they say. Eminem and Too $hort are both somewhat polarizing artists. From songs such as Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet"...

In 2015, Apple Inc. applied to register APPLE MUSIC as a mark for a long list of services including "live musical performances." Charles Bertini, a professional jazz musician, opposed that application...

It is not the first time artist Richard Prince has made headlines for appropriating others' artwork into his own without attribution or license.

How copyright law is impacting the music industry is in the news this week.

With a jury trial scheduled to begin in just over a month, Led Zeppelin, their music publisher and record label continue to feud with the estate of a founding member of the rock band Spirit over the allowance of expert depositions in a copyright infringement case surrounding the song "Stairway to Heaven."

d Sheeran, who famously brought his guitar into court and performed live renditions of "Thinking Out Loud" to illustrate his creative process, has scored another legal victory in ongoing litigation...

On December 15, 2015, Twentieth Century Fox moved for summary judgment in its trademark dispute with Empire Distribution, Inc.

Addressing an unusual but high-profile copyright dispute involving famous rappers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted summary judgment for rapper Curtis Jackson (a.k.a. 50 Cent) on claims that he infringed the copyright for the song “Its Your Birthday” by rapper Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew.

U.S. patent law establishes requirements that inventors and applicants must satisfy to obtain a patent, which include utility, recitation of patent eligible subject matter, novelty, nonobviousness...

While some artists use their actual names, in the world of arts and entertainment, it is very common for an artist to adopt a stage name or to otherwise be known professionally as something other than his or her given name.

The order from Judge Becerra sanctioned Bang for failing to hand over social media videos and data as part of discovery in Sony Music Entertainment et al. v. Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al.

These days, it’s hard to imagine a restaurant or bar experience that is not accompanied, in some part, by music.

Addressing whether a copyright infringement claim should be dismissed with prejudice where the plaintiff failed to register his copyright prior to filing the lawsuit, the US Court of Appeals....

A copyright owner's exclusive rights, codified at Section 106 of the Copyright Act, include the right to control both the reproduction and the distribution of a work.

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed that plaintiffs-appellees' temporary artwork had achieved appropriate stature to be protected by the rarely invoked...

In one of the most important decision to date applying the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) since its adoption, on February 12, 2018, New York's Eastern District awarded $6.75 million in statutory damages to 21 aerosol artists whose works were intentionally destroyed by the owner of the buildings on which they were painted.