If the law were to prohibit trolling, dishonest plaintiffs would not be able to use
massive copyright suits to force identification of people to threaten.
The Court of Appeal for England and Wales has ruled against Lucasfilm in its breach of
copyright suit against Andrew Ainsworth, the British designer who produced the Stormtrooper costume for the Star Wars films.
CNEWS (via AP): Internet Archive faces copyright suit
Abbott and Costello heirs
lose copyright suit against Broadway play over «Who's on First» bit (USA News)-- What?
There has been a big move
into copyright suits against blogs and aggregator sites for example the Las Vegas Review - Journal articles.
Such innovators would be reluctant to create new products, Scalia said, if the high court laid down a rule that would
allow copyright suits to shut them down «right out of the box.»
The Dewey B Strategic blog provides an excellent summary of the case, A Victory for Fair Use: Online Publication of Attorney Filings OK,
Copyright Suit Against Lexis and Westlaw Dismissed.
(It is, however, facing
a copyright suit from Wixen Music Publishing, filed in late December 2017.)
As the result of
another copyright suit waged by the Beastie Boys against Monster Energy, new details in the band's settlement with toymaker GoldieBlox have emerged.
Actor James Franco has settled
a copyright suit filed against him over his plans to make a Charles Bukowski biopic.Cyril Humphris claimed Franco's...
H R 3045 The Congress on Oct. 26 passed a bill to strip public schools and other state entities of immunity from
copyright suits.
The artist behind Pepe the Frog continues his legal efforts to take his cartoon creation back from the alt - right and conspiracy theorists with
a copyright suit against Infowars, a website...
Of course Patry, senior copyright counsel for Google, may have difficulty finding the time to do that now that Viacom has hit the company with a $ 1 billion
copyright suit.
This may be a hollow victory for Upper Deck, which recently settled
a copyright suit brought by Major League Baseball, in the process making clear that its days as a baseball card producer are over now that MLB has signed an exclusive deal with Topps (for which, incidentally, Upper Deck made an unsuccessful takeover bid a few years back).
The majority found that the SCOTUS had revisited the first sale doctrine such that
the copyright suit was precluded on this ground, although Circuit Judge Wardlaw concurred but would sustain the result on the copyright misuse theory.
Viacom also said that the information would be safeguarded by a protective order restricting access to the data to outside lawyers, who will use it solely to press Viacom's $ 1 billion
copyright suit against Google.
The film producers, Deborah Novak and John Witek, filed a $ 40 million
copyright suit, with claims for breach of contract and fraud.