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The Second Circuit weighs in on transformativeness in the visual arts

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

A year after hearing oral argument, the Second Circuit has issued its much anticipated decision in Cariou v. Prince on copyright fair use in the

Commercial distribution of news content on the Internet by media monitoring service not a fair use

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 15 2013

On March 20, 2013, the Honorable Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a sweeping decision in favor

Holy copyrightability Batman! The Batmobile is a superhero

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2013

Judge Ronald Lew's recent decision in DC Comics v. Towle, No. CV11-03934 RSWL (OPx) (C.D. Cal. Feb. 7, 2013) ("Towle"), demonstrates that the line

The Aereo and ReDigi decisions: courts continue to wrestle with the application of copyright law to the redistribution of digital content

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2013

A series of recent decisions in the Second and Ninth Circuitsincluding Viacom v. YouTube and UMG v. Veoh (both dealing with the distribution

Are false allegations of homosexuality still libel, per se?

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

One of the big stories in defamation law last year was the decision by the Third Department of the New York Appellate Division in Yonaty v. Mincolla

UK Court of Appeal holds that, upon notice, Google may be liable for defamatory user-generated content on blogging platform operated by Google

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 19 2013

In a unanimous ruling issued on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, the England and Wales Court of Appeal held that Google may be deemed a "publisher" of (and

D.C. Circuit vacates plug and play order and encoding rules applicable to multichannel video programming distributors

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 16 2013

On Jan. 15, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided that the FCC lacked the statutory authority to adopt its 2003

Ninth Circuit issues divergent commercial speech decisions

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2012

On Oct. 15, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued two decisions notable for their discussion of what constitutes commercial speech under the First Amendment

Federal court finds Albert Einstein’s postmortem publicity rights have expired under New Jersey common law, dismisses lawsuit against General Motors

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 21 2012

On Oct. 15, the federal district court for the Central District of California dismissed a lawsuit filed against General Motors by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which has long claimed to own the postmortem publicity rights of Albert Einstein

Federal court enjoins enforcement of Washington state law targeting adult-oriented advertisements

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 6 2012

A federal court in Washington last month preliminarily enjoined enforcement of a new state law targeted at adult-oriented advertisements (but encompassing much more) because, the court found, the law likely is preempted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution

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