By Gregory Feit Consider the following scenario: A professional photographer sues a company for copyright infringement, alleging that the company displayed her copyright-protected photograph on its website without her authorization. Although properly served with the photographer’s complaint, the company never appears in the lawsuit. The photographer moves for a default...
By Ethan Krasnoo This month, the producers and sound engineer behind Fleetwood Mac’s recordings filed a lawsuit alleging that the playwright David Adjmi and other related parties infringed their copyright in the memoir Making Rumours with Adjmi’s currently running Broadway play, Stereophonic. Notably, Stereophonic has garnered significant acclaim, winning five...
By Ethan Krasnoo Music is having a profound moment of revolution. Gone are the days where Mp3s and CDs defined the industry. Today, artificial intelligence can compose and perform songs tailored to your chosen style and subject matter. Recently, I explored this myself on Suno.com, where I requested AI generated...
Featured in Realscreen, RPJ Partner Nicole Page and Senior Associate Daniel Ain cover the recent Supreme Court Case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, which is sure to have huge effects on fair use doctrine. Nicole and Dan explain potential new copyright infringement claims that may...
Nothing defined life in the time of COVID quite like Tiger King and, quite like COVID, we are still talking about Tiger King nearly two years later. On Christmas Eve, the production company behind Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls sued Netflix and the producers of Tiger King for copyright infringement...