Media & Entertainment Law

Tenenbaum Liable for Copyright Infringement
Update [31 July 6:50PM]: $22,500 per work; $675,000 total. More than I expected. Props to Wendy Seltzer and Mark Lemley for the update. Link is to Ben Sheffner’s write-up in Ars Technica… The judge in the copyright infringement lawsuit against Joel Tenenbaum has issued a directed verdict on the issue of infringement liability...

Are adaptations of copyright work legal
In each case the question of whether there is a copyright infringement requires a review of the law and the facts of the case. We did this after a few minutes of enquiry last month triggered by a Google Alert (http://www...

Copyright Infringement: What Goes Around, Comes Around
Toronto, ON: The latest word on copyright infringement casts a hypocritical glow over the recording industry, which has been going after individual file shares (people who download music off the internet for free)...

Major Search Engines Sued for Copyright Violations
Two major websites are currently under the legal gun for allegedly assisting copyright infringement. It is suppose to be a first of it's kind case - at least, that's what a Korean news site is reporting currently...

De Soto High goes into lockdown over suicide threat
From JoCo Sheriff: Deputies locked down the De Soto High School and Middle School as a precautionary measure while they looked for an 18 year old De Soto man after he threatened suicide, cut himself and left his home with...

The EFF Unintended Consequences White Paper Update Marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the DMCA
It’s easy to forget that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is really two separate laws.  One protects publishers from “inadvertant” copyright infringement by creating the “notice-and-takedown” regime that requires copyright owners to demand that publishers take down copyrighted works published by third parties before asserting infringement...

Tyler Perry Wins Copyright Infringement Suit
by Tamera H. Bennett Posted December 16, 2008 See original post here regarding copyright infringement lawsuit against Perry for Diary of A Mad Black Women. Jurors in the East Texas town of Marshall found that the Plaintiff, Donna West, did not present evidence that supported her claim of copyright infringement...

iiNet copyright case update
In November I blogged that iiNet had been sued for copyright infringement by by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network (see here)...

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

FDA Issues Update on Safety Review Orlistat
Orlistat FDA Issues Update on Safety Review

UPDATE 1: Caraco Digoxin Recall

Mexican Vanilla Containing Coumarin
, FDA Issues Consumer Update