Singer Jackson Browne is suing US Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using one of his songs without permission. (NY Times) McCain used Browne’s 1977 hit “Running on Empty” in a co… more →
CopywriteKeith wrote 10 months ago: Singer Jackson Browne is suing US Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using one of his … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: The Central District of California granted summary judgment in UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Troy Augusto, … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: This month, in Marketing Information Masters v. The Trustees of the California State University (ful … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: Over a year ago, Robert Tur was the first person to bring suit against Youtube for copyright infrin … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: As there has been much talk about the validity of the jury instructions in Capital Records v. Thomas … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: Jurors from Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas are talking, and what they are saying is going t … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: Since the mid-90’s, people have been posting pictures on the internet. And for the same amount … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: Filed last week in the Federal District court, New York Southern District Court was Bourne Co. v. T … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: A reprint of the AP newswire can be found at CNN Money: “Guilty verdict in music file-sharing … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: The U.S. District Courts for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: Monsoon Multimedia admitted that it violated the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License version 2), and s … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: UMG v. Augusto, Case No. 2:07-cv-3106 SJO (AJWx) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: Use of copyrighted material located using Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine by defendants for … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: A few others have written about this, but it is interesting from the following viewpoint: courts are … more →
Keith wrote 1 year ago: A girl “works” a bar (exam) pole has a writeup on this. You will remember the PMBR folks … more →
Keith wrote 2 years ago: Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. and Google, Inc., CV-06-55405 (pdf). In summer 2005, a Cali. fe … more →
Keith wrote 2 years ago: As this UK article points out, the similarities between the Chinese Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Pa … more →
Keith wrote 2 years ago: Jarvis v. K2, Inc., 2007 WL 1239222 (9th Cir. April 30, 2007). This case should be included in every … more →
Keith wrote 2 years ago: Apple 2.0: Is DVD Ripping in Apple TV’s Future? This week Apple announced the end of DRM for i … more →