Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Back in October 2020, I wrote about a copyright infringement case filed by Jeffrey Scott against the Walt Disney Company. Without any ownership interest in the production bible, Scott had no right to assert a copyright infringement claim. The case didn’t get very far as a result of a somewhat unusual set of circumstances.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters. 1498, 1509-10 (2020).

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The company also asserts copyright ownership in two “director’s statements” written by Coakley about the alleged on-set bullying, as well as in Coakley’s planned derivative project about the making of Runt. Virtuoso later transferred its rights in Runt to Wagging Tails.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 1963, Disney expressed skepticism about monopoly aspects of extended term and “expressed doubt that Congress would approve a longer ownership period.” Guy Rub, Revisiting the Copyright-Contract Conflict Most courts said that contracts were never equivalent to © rights. Could attend to contracts of adhesion in that way.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. 105 , as a “work of the United States Government”?

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