LJN Newsletters

  • Waging Trademark War Against 'i-Pirates'

    Trademark infringers have preyed on the fertile software marketplaces opened by companies like Apple and Google by offering apps for download under names that are identical or confusingly similar to other well-known brand names. These online trademark bandits are effectively engaging in a form of "i-piracy," whereby they attempt to profit from the goodwill associated with established trademarks by pirating those marks for use in their own knock-off apps.

    June 30, 2011John Sullivan and Michael Leonard

  • Bit Parts

    Members in Expos' When Music Act Gained Success Own Common Law Rights to Name
    Right of Publicity and Trademark Rulings on "Dillinger Tommy Guns" in Videogames

    June 30, 2011Stan Soocher

  • Music Published On Internet Ruled 'U.S. Work'

    A Finnish record company's claim that pop music producer Timbaland and pop star Nelly Furtado plagiarized its music was thrown out of court by a Miami, FL, federal magistrate in the Southern District of Florida.

    June 30, 2011Julie Kay

  • TN Court of Appeals Considers Business Management Issues

    The Tennessee Court of Appeals, at Nashville, reversed and remanded a trial court ruling against Clint Black in the country artist's suit against his former business manager. This case is notable not only for statute-of-limitations issues, but also involves business-management partnership liability, as well as the line between accounting and business management services.

    June 30, 2011Stan Soocher

  • First Circuit Finds Infringement in TV Sitcom

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit decided that actor Emmanuel "Sunshine" Logro'o and a TV production in which he was a principal infringed on the copyright for the plaintiff production company's TV situation comedy.

    June 30, 2011Stan Soocher

  • Taxing Online Sales

    Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn signed the Main Street Fairness Act into law to collect sales tax revenues from a retail market traditionally beyond the states' reach ' the world of online commerce ' by focusing on the role of local online marketing affiliates. But the measure has been harshly criticized by online merchants who contend it is an unconstitutional intrusion on interstate commerce, and by policy analysts who question its ability to raise tax revenues.

    June 30, 2011Marcelo Halpern, Amanda Weare and Lauren Matecki

  • Internet Crime and the Elderly

    The same technology that provides the means for customers in various market sectors to truly interact with merchants also allows a similar force multiplication for Internet criminals, including charlatans and other rogues who prey on some of the most vulnerable among us ' the elderly.

    June 30, 2011Jonathan Bick

  • Open Source Commands Allure

    The prospect of "free" software, through the open source movement, seems like a CFO's dream come true. After all, why shouldn't a firm get a critical asset at no cost? In other words, why pay a monthly licensing or maintenance fee when something that appears to work well can possibly be had at no cost online? Unfortunately, the real world has taught us all that "free" can be very expensive.

    June 30, 2011Stanley P. Jaskiewicz and Matthew I. Cohen