A settlement was reached after the media giant infringed on a New Jersey publisher’s rights to an iconic 9/11 photo of 3 firefighters raising the American flag at the World Trade Center site.
By Reuters. Raw Story.
Music publisher Warner/Chappell Music agrees to terminate its copyright to the world’s most popular song, for a lawsuit settlement of $14M, putting “Happy Birthday to You” into the public domain for all to use freely, subject to approval by a Los Angeles federal court.
By Eriq Gardner. The Hollywood Reporter.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/warner-music-pays-14-million-863120
Rival author accuses the “Shadowhunters” novel creator of lifting her original work, resulting in the book’s successful series and TV and film adaptations.
By Isabella Biedenharn. Entertainment Weekly.
www.ew.com/article/2016/02/10/cassandra-clare-shadowhunters-lawsuit
The newspaper sues independent publisher PowerHouse Books, and its CEO, for using 64 mini-images of the Times’s front cover, in the publisher’s book, “War is Beautiful.”
By Jillian Steinhauer. Hyperallergic.
http://hyperallergic.com/273061/new-york-times-sues-powerhouse-books-for-copyright-infringement/
Texas jury finds that Apple’s FaceTime technology infringed on a security software company’s patents, in a $625M verdict for VirnetX.
By Mark Curriden. The Dallas Morning News.
Tattoo-design company sues software company for $1.1M for reproducing copyrighted tattoos on athletes in the video game NBA 2K16.
By Eriq Gardner. The Hollywood Reporter.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/nba-2k-videogame-maker-sued-861131
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES I, Benjamin M. Lawsky, Superintendent of Financial Services, pursuant to the authority granted by Sections 202, 302, and 408 of the Financial Services Law, do hereby promulgate a new Part 1 of Title 23 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules, and Regulations, to take effect upon […]
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The treaty equips intellectual property holders, in member countries, with new tools to protect and enforce their digital ownership rights. By Peter Sayer. IDG News Service.
In the U.S. copyright case against Dotcom, founder of the now-defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, the web mogul asserts that the extradition treaty was not meant for intellectual property disputes and that both countries’ judicial systems do not deem copyright infringement to be fraud. By Corrine Reichert. ZDNet.
www.zdnet.com/article/dotcom-extradition-treaty-not-for-copyright-infringement
Musician Jessie Braham sues Swift over her 2014 chorus lyrics “Haters Gone Hate,” as Braham claims to have used the same lyrics in his 2013 copyrighted song of the same name. By Chris Isidore and Samuel Burke. CNN Money.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/02/news/companies/taylor-swift-sued
