This article asks a question relevant to all of us students: who owns the copyright to their class notes?  Do the rights belong to the students writing the notes, or to the teachers who dictate them?  Two California universities appear to believe the rights belong to the teachers – and have initiated action against various [...]

A Chinese company that says it owns the rights to the iPad trademark has sued Apple and asked for a court order barring the company from selling the device in China. What more, Apple is about to be hit by a $38 million fine for continuing to use the name in China. Four years before [...]

If you were to find yourself in Warsaw last week, you might have thought you stumbled onto the set of a V for Vendetta sequel. The crowds of people donning Guy Fawkes masks were actually protesting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); an international trade agreement which seeks to create uniform standards for enforcing intellectual property [...]

Leading up to the Super Bowl, many viewers have already proclaimed that they will not be watching Madonna’s halftime performance.  A small sample set can be found here, here and here.  One website proceeded to list 46 better ideas than Madonna for the halftime show.  However, one person that will definitely be watching the performance [...]

This blog’s tech editor started doing yoga recently. Sure she’s, like, 10 years behind, but late is better than never right? Knowing nothing about yoga she started sampling different studios and even tried doing Bikram Yoga which is the 90 minute, twenty-something poses in a 105-degree-room yoga. It was difficult! It was sweaty! But mostly [...]

The Sports Blawg with the Fordham Sports Law Forum On January 18, 2012, the highly touted high school cornerback Yuri Wright was expelled from school for “sexually graphic and racial” tweets.  Wright is currently ranked 40th in ESPNU’s Top 150 Football Recruits for the class of 2012.  The Huffington Post has provided a link to [...]

Recently, a YouTube video attacking ex-presidential contender Jon Huntsmen surfaced on the Internet.  The insulting footage refers to Huntsmen as the “Manchurian Candidate,” while playing “Chinese style” music in the background; it shows Huntsmen doing Chinese activities (speaking Chinese, interviewing with the chinese media…) and asks whether the candidate’s true country of allegiance is the [...]

A California Sikh, Dr. Randeep Dhillon, has filed a lawsuit against Jay Leno, alleging that the Sikh community was the unfair butt of The Chin’s joke on the January 19th episode of The Tonight Show.  The joke at issue portrayed Mitt Romney, the uber-wealthy Republican presidential candidate, as the summer resident of the Golden Temple [...]

The Louboutin/YSL case has become a very hot topic for fashionistas and IP enthusiasts alike. Appealed Tuesday in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the judge seemed to show support for the Louboutin side, which would mean a possible overturning of the lower court decision to deny a preliminary injunciton.  Much of the argument is [...]

This week a federal appellate court will hear arguments in the Christian Louboutin/Yves Saint Laurent red shoe sole lawsuit.  A professor from Harvard Law weighs in on Louboutin’s unprecedented attempt to trademark a color.