Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Recently, a district court in the same circuit took up a very similar issue, assessing Viacom’s trademark and copyright infringement claims against the owner and operator of a pop-up restaurant and bar called The Rusty Krab.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Organization for Transformative Works, Rebecca Tushnet: The Organization for Transformative Works (“OTW”) is a nonprofit established to protect and defend fans and fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. Like most large websites that are not in the news every day, we receive very few copyright claims despite our size.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Cariou is still arguably good law w/the exception of the relevance of artist’s intent. The majority says that limiting doctrines account for Kagan’s examples—which involved use of expression—as well as the dissent’s own copying and the Court’s too. The input was copyrightable; the output is not. Copyright for humans only?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Amazon went into users’ Kindles and removed copies of Orwell’s 1984. A: Chamberlain highlights that these are abuses, but you have conflicting precedent w/Blizzard and the Copyright Office saying no, 1201 is absolutely supposed to cover these situations. Institutions: courts, Copyright Office, Congress. Property v.

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