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After fabric designer Unicolors Inc. (Unicolors) won a nearly $1 million verdict against H&M in a 2016 copyright infringement case, H&M appealed, arguing that Unicolor's copyright application contained mistakes rendering it invalid.

On November 8, 2019, a federal judge denied a motion by Defendant Marc Jacobs International LLC and other defendants to dismiss Plaintiff Nirvana LLC's copyright and trademark ...

The Fifth Circuit recently addressed the question when a court can give relief from a final judgment, order or proceeding under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60. Yesh Music v. Lakewood Church, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 16884 (5th Cir. Aug. 14, 2013).

Sony has settled its lawsuit against the producers of the 2022 biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody.

Plaintiff Sound and Color LLC, the owner of the copyright to the 2015 song "Dancing With Strangers" (also known as "Dancing With a Stranger"), composed by Jordan Vincent and Christopher Miranda...

Manufacturers continue to urge U.S. negotiators to pursue a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement that opens markets, protects intellectual property rights and enables cutting-edge innovation.

On Monday, March 4, 2019, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion that clarified the long-standing issue of whether a plaintiff bringing a copyright infringement action has to have an issued registration ...

The equitable defense of laches cannot be invoked to bar a copyright damages claim brought within three years of an alleged violation.

The debate over whether the pendency of an application suffices is now over, however.

On May 9, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Warner Chappell Music Inc. et al. v. Sherman Nealy et al. (No. 22-1078), holding that copyright owners can recover damages going back more...

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Google's appeal of the Federal Circuit's 2014 ruling that that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java API packages are entitled to copyright protection.

The U.S. Supreme Court determined that Aereo, Inc.’s online television streaming service violates copyright law.

In the US, attorneys' fees generally are not available to the winning party unless authorized by statute or the parties have agreed to permit a fee award.

On February 24th, the Supreme Court ruled that lack of either factual or legal knowledge can excuse inaccuracies in copyright registrations under Section 411(b)(1)(A) of the Copyright Act.

The Texas Court of Appeals for the Second District found that an employee was wrongfully terminated from an architecture firm when he refused to engage in behavior that he believed would expose him to liability for criminal copyright infringement.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a case involving allegations, against an appropriation artist, of infringement of photographs subject to registered copyrights, concluded that a broad fair use defense is available for most of his artistic works.

The U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York ordered record label TufAmerica, Inc. to pay the Beastie Boys, Universal-Polygram International Publishing, Inc. and Capital Records LLC, $845,597.23 in attorneys' fees and costs.