http://iplj.net/blog Intellectual Property Media and Entertainment Law Blog Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:07:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By: Ruvin Levavi The past couple of years have seen the Cowboy image reinvented numerous times. Clint Eastwood has been pushed aside by the academy award winning Brokeback Mountain. Yet, before Hollywood decided to give the American West a makeover there was Robert Burck. Burck, better known as, The Naked Cowboy ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/06/27/naked-cowboy-v-naked-mm/ By: Eliyahu R. Babad A questioner (himself an attorney) recently posed this query to the copyright panel of the Fordham Intellectual Property Symposium. The distinguished panel of three law professors and the principal legal advisor from the Copyright Office i at best offered a qualified “perhaps”. So what is the ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/05/14/so-youre-an-attorney-tell-me-can-i-backup-my-cds-without-being-sued/ The RIAA was handed a small blow today as a District Court judge in Arizona denied Summary Judgment on the question of whether leaving files on a shared directory is Copyright Infringement as a matter of law. While this does not really lend any saving grace to the p2p ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/04/30/no-summary-judgement-on-filesharing-copyright-infringement-still-illegal/ By: Eric Mouchette How many ways can you draw an apple? More specifically, how many ways can you draw an apple without infringing on Apple Inc.’s ubiquitous logo? This is a question that New York City Hall may eventually have to ask itself. Apple renewed its federal challenge ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/04/17/how-far-does-%e2%80%9cthe-big-apple%e2%80%9d-have-to-fall-from-the-tree/ J.K. Rowling is suing RDR Books for publishing a Harry Potter lexicon dictionary of sorts. Their website with the same content has been free, but now that this book is going to bring in revenue, J.K. has brought out the guns. And those guns include tears at a ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/04/15/jk-rowling-testifies/ By: S.S. Who would have thought that the most important meal of the day could turn into such a debate over economic regulation and ownership rights? The expansion of the cereal café market has created an intellectual property war over trademarks and patents, and the ability of one company to ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/04/08/legal-battles-in-a-bowl-of-milk/ By Eric Bitzegaio Viacom has slammed YouTube’s parent company, Google, with a suit seeking over $1 billion in damage and injunctive relief the copyright infringement provisions of the Copyright Act.i Viacom claims Google directly infringed on their copyrights by publicly displaying, publicly performing, and reproducing copyrighted works without authorization. ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/04/05/google-sued-by-viacom%e2%80%94can-youtube-survive/ New York City Hall to be precise. Apple is challenging NYC's new greeNYC apple shaped logo as a trademark violation. Apple has filed a formal opposition to NYC's trademark application. Read more here. - Maxim Price http://iplj.net/blog/2008/04/03/apple-fights-city-hall/ Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, is bringing the hammer down on Google's YouTube service alleging over 160,000 instances of intentional copyright infringement. The maximum statutory remedy for this could theoretically be as high as 24 billion dollars. Viacom only seems to be seeking about 1 billion dollars. ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/03/28/youtube-hit-with-massive-lawsuit-by-viacom/ By: Court Heinle Last September, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published statistics on the share of countries in patent applications at the USPTO and the JPO.i While roughly half of the patent applications to the USPTO list a foreigner as first-named inventor, only 28.1% of applications ... http://iplj.net/blog/2008/03/26/why-are-relatively-few-non-japanese-applications-filed-in-japan/