Hollywood Trademarks
History circa 2012: The long awaited prequel to The Lord of the Rings is about to appear at a luxury movie theater near you, where you can [...]
Rules for Collaboration
This is a tale with a simple premise. You and a friend decide to collaborate on a screenplay. He’s got a great idea for Godzilla meets [...]
Celebrity Rights
It is undisputed that Bogart liked his Burberry trenchcoat. No, wait, I take that back. He loved his Burberry trenchcoat. In fact, he loved it so [...]
Helpful Trademarks
Those of you who watch Hulu on a regular basis will have noticed the ubiquitous advertising [...]
Product Placement
I remember back in 1991 I was reading American Psycho, the Bret Easton Ellis novel about [...]
Creative Commons
When Larry Lessig came up with the idea for the Creative Commons, he intended to create [...]
First Sale Doctrine
In 2013, the United States Supreme Court heard the case of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & [...]
Entertainment: Barbie Wars
Barbie is, of course, an American icon known to virtually every man, woman and child in [...]
Copyright Fallacies
On a sunny Thursday afternoon my cohorts prodded me out of a haze of pre-trial preparation [...]