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Trademark claims against virtual world strip club denied on 1st Amendment grounds

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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January 20 2009

A court has ruled that incorporating into a video game a virtual strip club with a similar look and feel to the real thing has artistic relevance and that similarities between the real and virtual strip clubs were not explicitly misleading

10 frequently asked questions about virtual worlds

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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September 18 2009

Internet techonology is on the cusp of a transformation as significant as the popularization of the World Wide Web in the 1990s

P2P file-sharing website ordered to pay movie studios $110 million in damages

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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June 10 2008

As a sanction for electronic discovery violations, the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California ordered Valence Media LLC, the parent company of TorrentSpy.com, to pay $110,997,000 in damages to six motion picture studios for secondary liability for copyright infringement

Congress considers new bill seeking performance royalties for performing artists and record labels

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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December 21 2007

On December 18, members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to require terrestrial or conventional radio stations to compensate performing artists and their record labels when they broadcast their work

Licensing and royalty requirements for webcasters: details and deadlines

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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March 24 2009

This Advisory is intended specifically to help guide individuals and companies, that wish to distribute recorded music over the Internet for pleasure or profit, through the maze of licenses and royalties required for such "webcasting" activities

Automated program for playing virtual world game deemed copyright infringement

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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August 14 2008

In July 2008, a U.S. District Court in Arizona found on summary judgment that the use of an automated program to play a virtual world game constituted copyright infringement

Court rules copyright owners must consider fair use before DMCA takedown notice

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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September 3 2008

In Lenz v. Universal Music Corp et al. (Case 5:07-cv-03783 JF) a California District Court held that in order to issue a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) takedown notice in good faith, a copyright holder must evaluate whether the use at issue qualifies as “fair use” under copyright law

Advertisers beware: it’s not easy being ‘green’ when regulators are watching

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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July 1 2010

A store in San Francisco recently received a makeover: a new coat of ecrucolored paint, a large green-colored logo and the addition of the term GREEN to its previous store name

Court says Copyright Royalty Board can legally set webcasters' royalty payments

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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February 25 2010

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Copyright Royalty Board is constitutional

Congress gives SoundExchange and webcasters authority to settle royalty rates

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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October 1 2008

On September 30, the U.S. Senate approved the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008, a bill giving SoundExchange and webcasters authority to finalize an agreement on performance royalty rates

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