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It’s no surprise that Amazon, one of the world’s largest retailers for entertainment products, maintains its own process for managing infringement and counterfeit allegations. This process has opened up new strategies for asserting and defending infringement claims. In this article, we explain how copyright, trademark and patent infringement issues unfold on Amazon by describing the process for rights holders to report infringement, and the impact of successful infringement take-down requests. We also address the situation where an infringement dispute evolves into a lawsuit, the resulting personal jurisdiction and state law issues that may arise.
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NIL Regulation: Can the NCAA Recover and Advance Its Own Fumble?
By Howard Mulligan
With a view toward injecting some modicum of clarity into the volatile arena of NIL, a plethora of legislation has been enacted at the state level and proposed at the federal level.
Determining Ownership Rights of Social Media Accounts
By Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme, Felicity Kohn and Abla Belhachmi
Whether in the context of artist/entertainment company, employer/employee, franchisor/franchisee or influencer/brand relationships, who owns and controls the social media accounts and associated goodwill sometimes comes into dispute. This article provides guidance on the standards courts apply in determining ownership rights over social media accounts, as well as best practices to head off such disputes before they occur.
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s View of Parodies
By Susan A. Smith and Doyle S. Tuvesson
While most trademark-related lawyers are familiar with the “Bad Spaniels” and “Chewy Vuitton” federal court decisions on trademark parody, decisions by the USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on trademark parody marks are rarely examined.
By Entertainment Law & Finance Staff
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.