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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned an award of statutory copyright damages and attorneys' fees, finding that since the alleged act of infringement commenced between the first publication and the effective date of copyright registration of the copyright in issue, neither was available to the copyright holder.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held that a musical composition that was not sufficiently similar to a registered composition to give rise to an inference of actual copying does not infringe that composition. Johnson v. Gordon, Case No. 04-2475 (1st Cir. May 31, 2005) (Selya, J.).

Pryor Cashman Partner Megan Noh, co-chair of the Art Law Group, spoke with The Art Newspaper about the anticipated trials in two lawsuits against artist Richard Prince, in which photographers...

To be clear, not every website operator will always be able to take advantage of the Section 512(c) safe harbor.

The DMCA protects internet service providers from liability when users upload copyrighted content, while requiring that such service providers remove the material if they receive notice...

The dispute between The SCO Group and Novell, Inc. over the ownership of copyrights in the code to certain versions of the UNIX operating system, which started eight years ago, appears to have been handed its retirement papers by the Tenth Circuit.

The article discusses TTAB affirmation refusal of ‘4D’ as merely descriptive and as deceptively misdescriptive for amusement park attraction.

Addressing a a finding of obviousness by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Board's obviousness ruling, finding that the Board failed to properly account for the importance of objective evidence of non-obviousness.

The Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of Unicolors, Inc., finding that the company has a valid copyright registration despite a mistake in the registration.

The Facebook phenomenon took the world by storm and today there are approximately 670 million users of the popular social networking site in the world.

On June 11, 2018, a federal court in Virginia issued what some copyright experts are calling a troubling decision in a case involving a photo that was posted online without the copyright owner's consent.

On June 11, 2018, a federal court in Virginia issued what some copyright experts are calling a troubling decision in a case involving a photo that was posted online without the copyright owner's consent.

Following the Copyright Royalty Board's ruling to raise Pandora's royalty rates, last week Pandora announced new licensing agreements with the country's two largest performing-rights societies...

The U.S. Copyright Office has called for public comment on potential legislative solutions to the problem of orphan works under U.S. Copyright law.

Google has a fascinating report called the Transparency Report, where it provides statistics on the number of Copyright takedown notices it receives monthly.

Most of these suits, however, do not name individual defendants.

Partners Louis Tompros and Ariel Soiffer, Counsel Matthew F. Ferraro and Senior Associate Natalie Li penned an article for Tech Policy Press discussing the US Copyright Office's response...