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Biederman Blog: Court sniffs, scratches case on software in film
There’s no trademark infringement where a fictional company or product portrayed in a film has the same name as an actual company or product, a federal court in Indiana has determined. In South Bend, the U.S. District Court granted Warner Brothers...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:38am -07:00T (699 words)
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Biederman Blog: In Texas, composing ‘Papa’ grapples with WWE
WWE, the entertainment wrestling giant, couldn’t smack down its opponent in a Texas court, as it squared off with the songwriter Papa Berg to get his copyright infringement lawsuit dismissed. A U.S. District Court in Dallas ruled partly in favor o...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 8:08am -07:00T (552 words)
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Biederman Blog: Ellington heirs lose claim for overseas royalties
It’s apparently not double-dipping when a domestic music publisher pays royalties to its own, affiliated, foreign sub-publishers:
The New York County Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by the...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 1:23am -07:00T (400 words)
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Biederman Blog: SW alum blasts porn trolls with legal phasers
A Southwestern Law School alum has helped hammer from the bench some notorious practitioners of what the blogosphere calls copyright trolling — the so-called Prenda porn cases in which a group of lawyers bought up rights to some online blue works, ...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 8:53am -07:00T (431 words)
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Biederman Blog: Online tips to stay out of entertainment law woe
It’s a fiction based in fact: Yes, in Los Angeles, many waiters, taxi drivers, physicians, lawyers and others are wannabe authors of screenplays. The phones ring off the hook with daily calls from aspiring script writers trying to run down leads fr...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 8:23pm -07:00T (322 words)
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Biederman Blog: Aereo goes on the offensive with broadcasters
It appears as if Aereo is tired of being on the defensive. In a complaint filed in a U.S. District Court in New York, the embattled Internet streaming service has sought a declaratory judgment that its technology, which allows its customers to stream fre...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 11:08am -07:00T (295 words)
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Biederman Blog: Widow, laywers may smart from court’s rip
When the late singer-songwriter Abrim Timon Jr. (left) wrote his 1974 tune, You’re Getting a Little Too Smart, he laid down a message that a bunch of folks — including, now, his widow and her appellate attorneys — might have taken judici...
Dateline: 2013-05-05 2:38pm -07:00T (689 words)
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Biederman Blog: On the home front: New Dean at Southwestern
Just fyi, an important institutional announcement:
Susan Westerberg Prager, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and former dean of UCLA School of Law, has been named Dean and Chief Executive Of...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 11:23am -07:00T (345 words)
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Biederman Blog: Pre-’72 tunes get less groovy for online services
Richard Nixon still was president and Gordon Liddy was just proposing a plan involving a Democratic office in a complex called Watergate. Don McLean (American Pie) and Michael Jackson (Ben) had hit tunes and HP introduced the first hand-held scientific c...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 9:08am -07:00T (351 words)
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Biederman Blog: Why it pays to read fine print on YouTube site
If you post on an online service and tap a snippet of another’s content and you do so to provide a critique or commentary of it, well, legal minds might argue that’s fair use, right? But what if a copyright challenge and take-down notice crop...
Dateline: 2013-04-25 4:38pm -07:00T (499 words)
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Biederman Blog: Round 3 goes to YouTube in Viacom slug fest
For the second time in four years, U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton in New York has granted summary judgement to defendant YouTube in a long-running copyright infringement suit filed by Viacom, Inc.
That ruling came after the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Dateline: 2013-04-24 9:22am -07:00T (315 words)
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Biederman Blog: What’s next for ‘used’ digital after ReDigi?
After a U.S. District Court in New York has ruled that the reselling of digital music by ReDigi violates the Copyright Act, fans and owners of collections of tunes may be wondering if there will be future markets for previously owned digital content. In...
Dateline: 2013-04-22 11:52pm -07:00T (815 words)
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Biederman Blog: New signals for shifts in legal battles over music
Music, with all the legal battling over its intellectual property rights, gets to audiences these days in ways that may prove surprising to some, according to new consumer reports. The NPD Group says, for example, that Internet radio has made significant ...
Dateline: 2013-04-22 8:52am -07:00T (422 words)
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Biederman Blog: Developer of `Section 8′ zapped on appeal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans has upheld an arbitrator’s award to Gamecock Media Group, a publisher, for fraud and breach of contract by TimeGate Studios Inc., a video game developer. The appellate decision reversed...
Dateline: 2013-04-19 8:08am -07:00T (295 words)
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Biederman Blog: Long arm of U.S. law slaps 2 for Pacific piracy
So when do nifty ads for bargains or eye-appealing graphics become potential reasons for legal pause for those who run commercial websites? Perhaps when those operators possibly are pirates of others’ content. Or so a federal magistrate in San Fran...
Dateline: 2013-04-18 8:38am -07:00T (411 words)
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