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Addressing the issue of copyright claim accrual for the first time in the 10th Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a district court’s dismissal of a 2010 copyright suit upon the grounds that the statute of limitations had run out three years after accrual of the claim.

Although a generally well-settled question of law, a string of recent cases has renewed interest in a common question: Who owns a photograph.

Withers has hired IP partner Gina Bibby in its Los Angeles office. Gina joins Withers from a Los Angeles-based law firm, where she has built on her highly respected fashion technology practice advising start-ups

In a decision blending hip-hop mystique with intellectual-property nuance, the Eastern District of New York refused to dismiss trade secret claims over the Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind album...

The TPP is an ambitious trade agreement being negotiated between representatives from the United States and other Asia-Pacific countries.

While scholars and pundits are busy listing the most important copyright rulings of 2018, a development that arguably beats them all is about to occur just as 2018 turns into 2019.

Last week a California federal judge declined to enter a preliminary injunction sought by actress Cindy Lee Garcia, which would have required YouTube to remove the 14-minute anti-Islamic film "Innocence of Muslims" that has sparked deadly protests around the globe in recent months.

Pryor Cashman Partners Ilene Farkas and Donald Zakarin spoke with Law360 for a feature article about their successful representation of star singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran...

David Aronoff was quoted in the Law360 article "‘Walk Of Shame' Copyright Row Nears End Of Line." Full text can be found in the July 27, 2015, issue, but a synopsis is below.

A proposed U.S. Senate Bill has the potential to change the way in which intellectual property infringement is reported and enforced. U.S. Senate Bill 662, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2013, has recently been the subject of lobbying efforts by the Chamber of Commerce and a number of businesses and trade groups eager for more stringent intellectual property protections.

As part of its annual "Special 301" identification and review of countries that deny adequate and effective protection of IP rights or deny fair and equitable market access to U.S. persons...

Straus v. DVC Worldwide, Inc., 484 F.Supp.2d 620 (S.D.Tex., March 23, 2007), involves a dispute over a 1989 photograph of the well-known golfer, Arnold Palmer. Straus, a professional photographer copyrighted the photograph and licensed it for use in the defendants’ 2001 and 2002 advertising campaigns to market the smoking-cessation products, Nicorette and NicoDerm.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that the work-for-hire doctrine applied to determine the ownership of copyrights in dances choreographed by the late Martha Graham, the founder of modern dance.

The appointment of a receiver can be a powerful tool in obtaining satisfaction of a judgment against a debtor. A court's broad discretion to keep a receiver in place,...

The Recording Academy has set the record straight about the eligibility of music developed by artificial intelligence for the Grammy Awards. "A work that contains no human authorship...

In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a summary judgment finding no violation of the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by distributing garage door openers that are compatible with the plaintiff’s garage door opening (GDO) systems.

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