by thefriedfirm | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog
Public concern over online privacy, data breaches and unauthorized data usage is nothing new. For years we have been hearing about large-scale data breaches at retailers like Target and Home Depot, and the past year alone brought alarming news about the colossal...
by thefriedfirm | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog
Much of the discussion around cannabis laws in the United States has focused on the odd legal regime we are living under: numerous states, especially in the west, allow medicinal and recreational cannabis to be sold openly (and advertised widely on billboards, among...
by thefriedfirm | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog
A closely watched copyright case has reached a fairly uneventful conclusion. In June, Paul McCartney and Sony/ATV opted to settle over song rights for The Beatles catalogue. Back in January, McCartney sued Sony/ATV, seeking a declaratory judgment on whether he would...
by thefriedfirm | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog
In one of the most anticipated trademark cases in years, the Supreme Court has ruled that prohibiting the registration of disparaging marks violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. The issue (which we covered last year) stems from Simon Tam attempting...
by thefriedfirm | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
Last year, we covered the lawsuit surrounding the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, which resulted in a jury finding that its producers copied an unpublished autobiography by Tommy DeVito; DeVito was a founding member of the group the musical is about, The Four Seasons....
