Tupac Hologram Rocks Coachella and IP Laws
Tupac’s holographic performance at Coachella rocked the concert and intellectual property laws. The public performance implicates copyright laws through exclusive rights licensing issues and the rights...
View ArticleDigital Piracy in the Third Dimension
3D Printers have emerged as a way to share and create tangible objects from digital files. However, the law has yet to catch up to such a quickly evolving technology. IP owners have grown concerned...
View ArticleYet Another Mobile Phone Patent Lawsuit: Ericsson vs. Samsung
Add one more lawsuit to the ongoing mobile phone patent litigation. Ericsson has filed a new suit in U.S. District Court against Samsung for patent violations.
View ArticleThe Evolution of Instagram
Instagram is a new social networking website that allow users to share their photos on Instagram's website and on other sites such as Facebook and Twitter. On Monday, Instagram announced that it...
View ArticleTen Former Players Sue the NFL for Use of their Likeness by NFL Films
In addition to getting ready for the regular season opener, the NFL is also dealing with a suit brought by ten former players. The players, five of which are Hall of Famers, are suing the NFL for...
View ArticleRIAA, BPI Accused of Infringing Software Licenses
This past week, file-sharing news website TorrentFreak accused both the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) of violating licensing...
View ArticleAlleged Copyright Infringers Getting a Lump of Coal This Holiday Season
Almost a decade after the release of a popular holiday film, Warner Bros. Entertainment is taking steps to enforce its copyright. Now, just six weeks before Christmas, holiday event organizers are...
View ArticleYou Have a License for that Song?
How are contestants on TV shows, like The Sing-Off, American Idol, and The Voice, able to sing other pop artist’s songs live on television without facing any legal repercussions?
View ArticleGoogle Becomes Seventh Member of the Open Invention Network
Google recently joined IBM, NEC, Novell, Phillips, Red Hat and Sony as a full member of the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization that was...
View ArticleEA Sports Plans to Continue Making Madden Video Games with Exclusive License
Despite reports that Electronic Arts (EA) exclusive license with the NFL was to end in 2013, the company plans to continue the franchise according to new CEO Andrew Wilson.
View ArticlePolaroid: No Longer A Camera Corporation
Polaroid is a company that has been known for its cameras for decades. This year, Polaroid fully completed its transition from a manufacturing company to...
View ArticleKeys to Intellectual Property Protection and Licensing for Smart Fabrics
Several speakers at the Smart Fabrics Summit, hosted by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Industrial Fabrics Association International, on April 24, 2018, in...
View ArticleGroupon to pay IBM $57 million for patent infringement
Groupon is required to pay IBM $57 million for willfully infringing on multiple IBM patents. The settlement also requires Groupon to enter into a licensing...
View ArticleLive Streaming and Music Streaming Collide
Online streaming has started to gain incredible popularity in the last few years. However, the music industry is quite unhappy about their licensed music getting played without permission. Thus,...
View ArticleDiffering IP Strategies Across Streaming Platforms
Warner Bros. Discovery is starting to utilize different licensing strategies to bring in new revenue. Other streaming providers, like Disney, prefer to have stronger control over their intellectual...
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