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Notorious B.I.G. Estate Files Pre-emptive Lawsuit over Song Sample

A Florida trial court vacated two separate prior restraint orders against the media from publishing unredacted information in a police report that contained an alleged confession by a criminal defendant.

Barry Werbin and Bryan Meltzer had their article posted on the New York State Bar Association EASL Blog

The owner of rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has threatened legal action against a Hobbit tribute bar in the UK. Middle-earth Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, alleges the 20+ year-old Southampton bar is infringing the beloved Tolkien novel’s valuable intellectual property.

Media Partner Charles D. Tobin moderated a National Press Club Panel called "Double Exposure."

In a matter of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently held that evidence of the foreign sale of a claimed reproducible plant selection may enable an otherwise non-enabled printed publication disclosing that plant, thus creating a 35 U.S.C. §102(b) bar.

A unique settlement in a Washington, D.C., Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has provided a Memphis newspaper unprecedented access to the FBI's informant records from the civil rights era, including documentation of the U.S. government spying on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Jackie Lechtholz-Zey was featured in the Children's Book Council article "Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers to Publish Picture Book Based On YouTube Sensation, Tiny Hamster."

In-tweet purchases. Twitter is testing the ability for its users to make purchases directly from tweets.

Hi there! In this video, I explain what a book publishing agreement is, the most overlooked aspects, and what you can do to negotiate one better.

A federal district judge in Miami vacated a prior restraint forbidding a U.S.-based Haitian journalist from ever publishing anything relating to the prime minister of Haiti. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe sued Leo Joseph for defamation, alleging that Joseph published defamatory articles in his newspaper, Haiti-Observateur.

FordHarrison is excited to share with you the new Ius Laboris flagship publication The Word along with the Ius Laboris digital knowledge platform, The Word online

Thumbnail images are used all over the web, but it's the use of smaller reproductions of photographs in a recent print book that caused The New York Times to file an unusual copyright lawsuit...

A judge in the Southern District of New York has found after a bench trial that a gossip website willfully infringed copyrights in photos showing celebrities Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher...

A recent change in Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) enforcement policy may signal a shift in the FTC’s approach to advertising for books and other publications.

The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States has a Code of Responsible Practices for Beverage Alcohol and Advertising and Marketing which sets forth voluntary standards...

The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States has a Code of Responsible Practices for Beverage Alcohol and Advertising and Marketing which sets forth voluntary standards for marketers of distilled spirits to help...