by thefriedfirm | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog
Hashtags have been an easy punchline for about as long as they have been popular on social media engines such as Instagram and Twitter, and this is somewhat propelled by the fact that a good-sized chunk of them serve the one and only purpose of being punchlines to...
by thefriedfirm | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog
As returns from album sales have fallen off the streaming music cliff over the past 15 years, musicians have increasingly had to hit the road to make a living. Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara once told a reporter, “This has become a really blue-collar industry, which...
by thefriedfirm | May 9, 2017 | Blog
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Grande Communications, a Texas-based internet service provider (ISP), due to Grande Communications not taking “meaningful action against repeat infringers,”...
by thefriedfirm | Apr 4, 2017 | Blog
After celebrating its acclaimed animated film Zootopia taking home an Academy Award in February, Disney must now deal with a lawsuit claiming that it stole the film. Gary Goldman, a writer credited on films Total Recall and Minority Report, filed a copyright...
by thefriedfirm | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog
On January 18th, singer and former Beatles member Paul McCartney filed a complaint against Sony/ATV Music Publishing, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking a declaratory judgment on his ownership rights to certain works by...
