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Print-on-Demand Service Defeats Fish Illustrator’s Copyright Claim–Tomelleri v. Sunfrog

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

And although Plaintiff also alleged Defendants marketed, advertised, and sold merchandise bearing his copyrighted illustrations. I’m also left wondering about possibly divergent applications of copyright and trademark law to print-on-demand services.

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Call for Nominations for IPLAC Creator of the Year

Chicago IP

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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Year in Review: The Briefing’s Top 3 Podcast Episodes in 2023

The IP Law Blog

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. In The Briefing , intellectual property attorney Scott Hervey and his guests provide insight in connection with copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, false advertising, licensing, promotions, and sweepstakes.

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Call for Nominations for IPLAC Creator of the Year

LexBlog IP

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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Santa Clause and IP

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Santa Claus art works which are often used by brands to promote their Christmas related products can be protected copyright law. Most trademarks registered in the U.S The post Santa Clause and IP appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.

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Booking.whocares: SCOTUS Issues a Headline-Making Trademark Decision… But Does It Really Matter?

Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

While a competitor might wish to use the mark to engage in nominative fair use and comparative advertising, these are, of course, permitted despite a trademark owner’s rights.). In other words, Booking.com has already largely addressed the potential problem of “booking.somethingelse,” via the DNS rather than trademark law.

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

First of all, in terms of copyright, to reiterate our very clearly articulated position. sophisticated generative AI that’s enabled by large language models, which trains on our intellectual property, violates copyright law in several ways. copyright law really doesn’t seem to give UMG a ton of options.

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