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Model suing Lions Gate over opening credits of Mad Men

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 7 2013

The next time you watch Mad Men, you may find yourself paying a little closer attention to the opening credits. Last week, Lions Gate Entertainment

California post-mortem rights of publicity for soldiers and more

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 22 2010

California legislature recently passed a California bill (ABA 585) that extends California's post-mortem right of publicity to people who became famous because of their deaths

Supreme Court reaffirms conspiracy risks of joint ventures

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2010

On May 24, 2010, the United States Supreme Court held, in American Needle, Inc v National Football League, et al, that the NFL, its teams and intra-league ventures are not a single enterprise for the purposes of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, and therefore the NFL's collective licensing of its teams' individually owned intellectual property could constitute concerted action "a contract, combination . . ., or conspiracy."

‘Appropriate remuneration’ for translators under German copyright law German Federal Court of Justice decides in favor of translators

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 27 2010

In five parallel matters decided by the German Federal Court of Justice October 7, 2009 and published by the court recently (case nos. I ZR 3807, I ZR 3907, I ZR 4007, I ZR 4107 and I ZR 23006), the court further interpreted the provisions on appropriate remuneration for licensors in German copyright law

Federal Court of Justice: GEMA not competent to grant licenses for use of music in advertising

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 27 2010

The German Federal Court of Justice decided in a decision of June 10, 2009 (file no. I ZR 22606, published with full opinion only November 30, 2009), that the German collecting society for musical rights, GEMA, is currently not competent to license rights of its members regarding the use of musical works in advertising

The study that never was - a lesson in comparative advertising

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2010

On Jan. 19, 2010, Weight Watchers International Inc. of New York sued its rival, Jenny Craig, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Vindication for Veoh: business is protected by Digital Millennium Copyright Act

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2009

Veoh Networks makes both professionally created programming content and entertainment, as well as user-generated content, available through its website

SARFT undertakes major investigation into audio and video licenses: three major BT sites closed

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • December 10 2009

Earlier this year, SARFT issued a circular requiring all online audio-video providers to obtain licenses

Rights of publicity: wake up and smell the coffee

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 10 2009

In 2002 Russell Christoff was told by a stranger that he looked just like an image that the stranger had seen on a jar of coffee

Trading culture in Shanghai

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • November 2 2009

China has established an exchange devoted entirely to trading in companies that own or deal with culture

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