The oldest bottler of Dr. Pepper has sold its distribution rights to Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. in a trademark dispute settlement. The bottler was accused of diluting the brand and selling outside the area allowed by its licensing agreement. Meanwhile, the town of Dublin, Texas is worried about losing its identity along with this [...]

The Sports Blawg with the Fordham Sports Law Forum This past summer, an extended work stoppage threatened to wipe out the entire 2012 NBA season.  Not wanting to risk missing a year’s worth of paychecks, some NBA players began to warm up to the idea of playing basketball overseas.  Naturally, NBA league officials did not [...]

This may be a first for daytime television: a very entertaining Intellectual Property lawsuit in The People’s Court. So what do you think about sassy Judge Marilyn Milian’s decision?

We are so proud to report that the IPLJ was recently cited in Justice Breyer’s dissenting opinion in Golan v. Holder, decided on January 18th! Check us out on page 10 of Justice Breyer’s opinion (page 55 of the document).  

The protest group Anonymous couldn’t stay quiet for long could they? Not with all the SOPA/PIPA news floating around. Click here, here, and here to read all about Anonymous shutting down the Justice Department’s website (as well as RIAA’s, MPAA’s, and Universal Music’s) in retaliation for the feds taking down popular file-sharing site Megaupload proving [...]

In the upcoming Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, Warren Zola of Boston College’s Carrol School of Management details the history of basketball amateurism and assesses the current legal framework which governs when amateur basketball players decide to enter the NBA Draft.  Zola then offers several proposals to address what he sees as the [...]

The White House navigated into the choppy waters of the international online piracy debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which both seek to regulate online piracy by foreign companies that violate U.S. copyright law. In an official statement the Administration responded to two online petitions, which [...]

Well, we were hoping to have a normal Internet day tomorrow. But it seems like the Internet is going to be unavailable because it is going on strike.  Well, not all of the Internet but some very big players are voluntarily “going dark” to protest the SOPA bill.  On January 24th, Congress will vote to [...]

Wikipedia plans to “go dark” on Wednesday as a protest against two highly controversial Congressional bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The tech world has launched an ardent opposition to the acts, projecting that several aspects of the proposed legislation would “stilfe innovation, enable censorship and tamper with [...]

The Obama administration announced that it was opposed to parts of two bills endorsed by Congress to enforce copyright protection on the Internet. The White House said, “Let us be clear, online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy, threatens jobs for significant numbers of middle class workers and hurts some of [...]