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“Twenty-Something Arrested at Twilight Movie” or “State Law Copyright...
by Jason Fischer Earlier this month, 22-year-old Samantha Tumpach was arrested exiting a showing of the new douchey-little-vampire-kid movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon. No, she wasn’t detained for a...
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Streisand 101
by Jason Fischer In an effort (I’m assuming) to be hip and relevant, my alma mater (and Randazza’s previous teaching gig) has begun adding courses to their curriculum that have little to do with the...
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IOC Uses DMCA to Suppress Luge Accident Video
by Jason Fischer The opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympics was marked with tragedy when 21-year-old Georgian luger, Nodar Kumaritashvili, was involved in a fatal crash during a training run. The...
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Video Game Playthrough Footage Should Be Fair Use
by Christopher Harbin It’s pretty easy to get duped into buying a crappy video game. A lot of video game marketing is pretty shady. Submitted for your consideration: the Madden “bullshot.”...
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Dear Leader Randazza Quoted in NYT Article on SLAPP Suits
by Christopher Harbin Marc was recently quoted in the paper of record regarding Slapp suits. One tidbit of the article stood out as odd to me: “The group Medical Justice, which helps protect doctors...
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Suicide note rights and liabilities
By J. DeVoy By their very nature, suicide notes are controversial documents. Nobody likes to think or talk about them, despite accompanying many – probably most – of the suicides that occur in...
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Lamebook, We Support You!
by Jason Fischer I know this story is already a couple of days old, but we think it’s still worth reporting on. For anyone who doesn’t know what’s going on, Facebook has been on a tear recently trying...
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Jenzabar tries to suppress critical website through bogus trademark claim –...
Public Citizen reports: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking company against an effort by a Massachusetts software company to use...
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Fair Use is Awesome
A number of weeks ago, the RLG scored a major fair use victory in Righthaven v. Hoehn. In that case, we argued that even using an entire editorial could be fair use as long as the fair user made a...
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Artist alleges mural drove aesthetics of music video
Artist Maya Hayuk of Brooklyn filed a complaint against RCA Records and Sony Music alleging that several aspects of her mural “Sunshine” were incorporated into the music video for “I Only Wanna Give It...
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Bieber Bang Bus Presents
Filed under: Adult Entertainment Law, awesomeness, fair use, humor, lulz, parody, trademark Tagged: video
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ABA Journal Magazine Tackles Righthaven in May 2012 Issue
By J. DeVoy Remember Righthaven? While it has been stripped of its intellectual property and claims against it keep piling up, the fat lady has not yet sung – and the ABA has noticed. The May 2012 ABA...
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What What, Fair Use on a 12(b)(6)?
By J. DeVoy. “What what, in the butt?” was the question recently before justices Easterbrook, Cudahy and Hamilton in the appeal of Brownmark Films LLC v. Comedy Partners from the Eastern District of...
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From engagement photo to political attack ad…
In May of 2010, Thomas Privitere and Brian Edwards, a gay couple, hired a photographer to take pictures of the two men in a New York City park. Their favorite photograph displayed the two men kissing...
View ArticleBuilding a Slippery Slope to Code
by Jay Marshall Wolman I’ve been following the efforts of Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org to free the law. In short, and inadequately summarized, sometimes lawmakers incorporate by reference or...
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