Amazon Wants All Its Sellers to be Intellectual Property Compliant
Amazon is protecting itself from intellectual property liability forcing sellers to get proactive on IP law.
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How Many Downloads Takes for Stardom and (Barely) a Living Wage?
The age of the electronic media and social platforms have created new spaces for creators such musicians, who may be not attached to a traditional record company, creating a more autonomous model. However, nowadays, the road to stardom and a living wage is a steep...
Client Spotlight: NX-Nardcotix Fiercely Protects Its Electronic Designs on Second Life
There is a world where all your little heart’s desires can come true: You live in a beautiful custom-designed mansion with a sparkling swimming pool where you gather your beautiful, model-like friends while you sashay a firm, bikini-clad body, martini in hand. It...
Pharrell Williams Threatens to Sue White House for Playing “Happy” After Synagogue Shooting
Even though President Trump and his family are avid traders of trademarks and manage their last name as a brand in multiple industries, he does not seem to respect others’ intellectual property as he should. Once again, a musician has sent through his lawyers a...
Hackers Making Selective Changes to Trademark Filings Underscore the Value of IP Assets
Bad guys are always looking to profit from other people’s properties and intellectual property (such as trademarks) is not the exception. You may be surprised that, yes, people steal businesses names, logos, copyrighted material, and that bad actors are getting...
The European Union Moving to Trademark Perfumes
The law protects the creations of individuals through patents, copyrights, and trademarks so they can benefit of the economic gains of their efforts and defend the use of their intellectual property by other entities, businesses or individuals. The most common...
Ed Sheeran and Tim McGraw sued for song copyright violation
Famous musicians, Ed Sheeran and Tim McGraw, are battling a lawsuit against Sean Carey and Beau Golden for copyrighting Carey/Golden’s 2014 song “When I Found You”. Ed Sheeran co-wrote Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s song “Rest of Our Life” which became very popular...
Padmaavat: Bollywood film making the zealots crazy
Contribution by Bhavini Mistry In 2017 protests erupted across India over the production of a Bollywood film based on a sixteenth-century historical poem called Padmaavat. The story revolves around a married Hindu queen named Padmaavati and a Muslim emperor named...
Avengers, Beauty and Guardians of the Galaxy Facing the Court
Thanks, Bhavini Mistry for your collaboration. Movie companies Paramount Pictures, Fox, and Disney were sued for copyright infringement by Rearden LLC for using their MOVA “facial motion-capture technology” in their box-office winning films Marvel’s Avengers,...