With the recent sale of movie rights to the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, the debate over fan fiction has heated up.
AP | Posted 03.29.2012
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A Vermont man who prints T-shirts urging people to "eat more kale" has six months to challenge a trademark ruling against him. The...
Edward J. Black | Posted 05.09.2012
Some of the lessons learned from the dangers of legislation like SOPA should be the need for forbearance and a well-researched, multi-stakeholder derived policy to avoid unintended consequences.
Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 04.24.2012
In our family we have two takes on copyright issues and SOPA. These two approaches reflect the gap between digital and offline worlds. Let's look at ...
Posted 04.17.2012
An Imperial Beach woman named Princess Samantha Kennedy claims the script of the movie "Titanic" unlawfully draws from her unpublished biography and l...
Edward J. Black | Posted 04.16.2012
Internet users realized during the debate over SOPA and its companion bill, PIPA, that because they were not at the table, they were on the menu. Vowing 'never again,' they have thus set their sights on ACTA.
The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 02.02.2012
Federal authorities have seized more than 300 websites, including several popular sports streaming sites, as part of a nationwide crackdown on Interne...
Dean Baker | Posted 03.24.2012
The institution of copyright dates back to the late middle ages. It may have served a useful function back then, but we will need something better for the Internet Age.
Kathy Wolfe | Posted 03.18.2012
Despite our best efforts, it's hard to compete with free. That is why I feel passionately about the need for legislation to protect this vital marketplace for companies like mine and for filmmakers who are the most vulnerable to bad actors in the space.
Posted 01.11.2012
Andy Warhol's career was based on repurposing well-known celebrity images and brands, but now the Warhol Foundation has found itself in a heated battl...
Daniel Grant | Posted 03.05.2012
Beauty, it is often said, is in the eye of the beholder, and so might be copyright infringement.
Posted 12.23.2011
The largest Internet domain registrar and web hosting company Go Daddy has abandoned its support for the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), accor...
Mark Lemley | Posted 02.20.2012
Copyright and trademark infringement on the Internet is a very real problem, and IP owners need tools to deal with that problem. But the power to break the Internet shouldn't be among them.
Sandra Aistars | Posted 02.14.2012
The process, hurdles and cost burdens proposed by the OPEN Act make this an unworkable alternative for artists and creators.
Chris Dodd | Posted 02.13.2012
Does freedom of speech require the freedom to steal? That's what some are arguing, comparing our efforts to protect American jobs from international criminal enterprises who profit from the theft of intellectual property online to the censorship policies of repressive regimes.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch threw his weight behind Congress' attempt to restrict the Internet, personally lobbying leaders on Capi...
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.06.2011
Creative America, a group launched over the summer to support Hollywood's anti-piracy campaign, recently released the video above, explaining that tho...
AP | By ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 11.29.2011
WASHINGTON -- The knockoff designer bags look close enough to the real thing that few would notice at a casual glance. Same goes for the imitation rep...
Edward J. Black | Posted 01.16.2012
Move over Obama. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has come up with their own jobs plan by way of oppressive Internet regulations that would create thousands of new, high paying jobs for attorneys as well as government workers and Internet censors.
Edward J. Black | Posted 01.01.2012
Author's Note: While this is not an actual intercepted diplomatic cable, I can imagine similar sentiments have been communicated. This legislation is...
Posted 11.09.2011
The new chief executive of MediaNews Group, the second-largest newspaper chain in the nation, has denounced its partnership with copyright infringemen...
Style Section L.A. | Posted 10.17.2011
Given the time Martha Stewart has spent not dropping the soap, one would assume that her employees were properly primed on avoiding legal situations. Apparently, one would assume wrong.
Posted 10.05.2011
A Chicago musician is suing one-woman international pop empire Lady Gaga for copyright infringement because she claims that Gaga, with help from a sou...
Julie Spira | Posted 09.19.2011
What happens when one day you find someone else using your logo, which you have taken the time to file a copyright or trademark for, as his or her primary profile photo on Twitter, Facebook or another social network?
ARTINFO | Posted 09.16.2011
By now you've probably heard of the "Cindy Sherman of the Monkey World," as we dubbed her recently. While working in an Indonesian national park, Brit...
Alma Katsu | Posted 04.04.2012