Looking at the #BigPicture in Trademarking Your Company/Brand’s Hashtags
The hashtags your business uses are not only an extension of your brand, but can indeed be the channel by which you market that brand. Can you trademark a hashtag?
December 05, 2018
Tracy Chapman Suit Against Nicki Minaj Highlight Importance of Protection and Permission
Chapman is seeking unspecified monetary damages for copyright infringement of “Baby Can I Hold You” – which Chapman registered for copyright protection in 1983 – and for the court to require Minaj to “take reasonable steps to stop the continued exploitation” of her song.
November 15, 2018
BMI Battles Against Leading Concert Promoter Association for Songwriters and Composers
Broadcast Music Inc. went to federal court seeking a court-ordered increase in the royalties to be paid to songwriters and composers from the North American Concert Promoters Association, which represents such concert promoter giants as the various AEG and Live Nation affiliates.
November 08, 2018
Can Street Artists Sue For Unauthorized Use of Their Work?
Adrian Falkner sued General Motors for using a portion of a mural he had painted on a parking garage in Detroit to promote an art gallery without his permission and in a way that only showed part of the mural and left off his signature and other copyright information.
October 20, 2018
TVEyes, Fox News, and the Future of Fair Use
In 2015, the Second Circuit ruled that the four factors that make up the “fair use” exception analysis favored Google Books, and one year later the Supreme Court decided not to take up an appeal, leaving the Second Circuit’s decision in place.
October 09, 2018
What is Actually Included in an Inclusion Rider?
Whether inclusion riders will set the entertainment industry on its head and increase the power and presence of minorities in the TV and film world, remains to be seen, but, for those with the bargaining power and will to incorporate an inclusion rider into their own contracts, what matters is the language actually included in those individualized contracts.
September 25, 2018
Advocates for the Creative Mind
