Intellectual Property Law

Chiquita Bananas - Something's Rotten in the Fridge
Back in 1945, Chiquita released a new advertising jingle telling us all about bananas, including lines like, ?Bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator - So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator!" Such a clever....

Im Not Really Making This Up:
(David Post) Yesterday I posted a story from Techdirt about a series of photographs of macaque monkeys taken, supposedly, by the monkeys themselves, and I asked, with tongue at least partially in cheek, whether the apparent copyright claim to these photos (Caters News Agency) held any water, given that the photos were taken by monkeys...

How Google is like bananas
By weird coincidence, Whole Foods was sold out of bananas today, as the latest issue of the New Yorker arrived on newsstands with a great (but sadly paywalled) article about the way in which the world of bananas-for-export is threatened by something known as Tropical Race Four.

Monkeys in the house
"Why is the mommy upset about the monkeys?" asked K while listening to the TMBG song "One Dozen Monkeys.""Probably because she doesn't want them in her house.""Why not?""I bet they would make a huge mess...

We have no bananas
So I was listening to Kai Ryssdal's interview with Peter Chapman, author of Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped...

Monkeying with Copyright
Having discovered how the porn industry is like the Cartel, we now visit the equally vital question of why a news organization would claim copyright in images taken by monkeys. No, I'm not making this up...

Copyright Lawsuits: Critical Issues Before Filing Copyright
Federa Rule 11(b) Considerations

Spike Lee and Showtime
Settlement reached in script copyright infringement lawsuit.

Joke Book
Judy Brown and publishers pay undisclosed settlement to comedians and talkshow celebrities for copyright infringement.

ASMP and Other Visual Artists File Class Action Lawsuit Against Google
Google Faces Class Action for Copyright Infringement