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No first-sale doctrine for digital music files

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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April 8 2013

Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi, Inc., No. 12 CIV. 95 RJS, 2013 WL 1286134 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 30, 2013) The Southern District of New York recently held

IP industry summary: argument for a license to use Haiti earthquake twitpics via Twitter’s terms of service is too shaky for NY district court

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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February 8 2013

Photographer Daniel Morel has accused some of the world’s most well-known media organizations, Agence France-Presse (“AFP”), Getty Images (“Getty”

Yo Adrian, I ain’t no infringer

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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January 16 2013

Rocky Balboa recently won a copyright infringement suit against Marcus Webb in three hard-fought rounds before the Southern District of New York. In

Nikita, Natasha: judge dismisses copyright suit against Elton John

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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November 8 2012

On October 29, 2012, the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a copyright infringement suit concerning the lyrics of Elton John’s 1985 hit song, “Nikita.”

Know exactly what you mean before claiming it’s “green”

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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October 15 2012

The Federal Trade Commission has issued its long awaited, final version of its “Green Guides,” formally known as the FTC’s Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims

NLRB finds employer lawfully discharged employee for Facebook posting

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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October 9 2012

As we have noted in past Legal Alerts, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has increasingly been addressing the application of employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to employee social media postings

Second Circuit holds that 111 license does not extend to live streaming of copyrighted television programs over the internet

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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September 24 2012

The plaintiffs owned copyrighted television programs, which the defendant was streaming live over the Internet without the plaintiffs’ permission

Court vanquishes copyright infringement claim against Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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September 19 2012

The Second Circuit threw out a suit by an author claiming that best-selling series “Percy Jackson & the Olympians” infringed his books, upholding the lower court’s ruling that the books and subsequent movies were not substantially similar

7th Circuit kills copyright infringement case; finds Kanye West’s claims stronger.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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August 27 2012

In Peters v. West, No. 11-1708, 2012 WL 3553417 (7th Cir. Aug. 20, 2012), the Seventh Circuit found two identically named hip hop songs were not similar enough to support a finding of copyright infringement

Social media sites: new battlegrounds for right of publicity disputes

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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USA
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August 15 2012

Social media websites are quickly emerging as the new battleground for right of publicity disputes, with the ultimate question being an old one what are the parameters of First Amendment protections for corporate, commercial speech?

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