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The speed and convenience of content distribution through the Internet has long posed a threat to traditional distribution channels and challenged courts to balance the benefits of freedom of access for the public with protection of the rights of intellectual property owners. Those issues were on display when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against a streaming video service.
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Heralded as the next big thing in social media, Pinterest presents new legal risks for companies engaged in social media marketing. Here's what you need to know.
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Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
How federal copyright law may affect state common law copyrights in sound recordings has long been a priority concern for record labels. Two courts recently rendered decisions on this issue.
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Firms and lawyers have the opportunity to drive and shape editorial content as never before. But few of them fully understand the opportunity, or possess the necessary internal capacity to produce high-quality editorial content.
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Alleging "Online" Distribution Not Enough to Establish Simultaneous International "Publication" <br>Expert Report on Value of "Bogart" Ruled Reliable
This second installment of a two-part article continues coverage of Chinese/U.S. film developments, and discusses concerns in the Chinese online industry as well as the increasing presence of U.S. intellectual property and entertainment law firms in China.
An <i>en banc panel</i> of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit convened to consider the question of joint or divided infringement of method claims. The court decided, in a <i>per curiam</i> opinion adopted by six of the 11 panel judges, that there could be liability under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) for inducing infringement of a method patent, provided all the steps of the method were performed, even if they were not performed by a single actor who was liable for direct infringement under § 271(a).
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the heirs to Marilyn Monroe's estate did not inherit the rights to her publicity because she was a resident of New York, where such rights are not recognized posthumously.