By Scott Hervey
If a sound recording produced before 1972 falls into the public domain in a foreign nation, is that sound recording still entitled to protection in the United States?#160 Recently, in Capitol Records, Inc. v. Naxos of America, the New York Court of Appeals (the State’s highest court) issued an opinion addressing this …
On February 1, 2005, the Senate unanimously passed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA).#160 The Act is being hailed as bipartisan, significant anti-piracy legislation and a reaffirmation of congressional intent to protect copyrighted material from new technological means of theft and infringement.#160 FECA has been referred to the House …
In 2004, the Ninth circuit heard the case Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster; an appeal from the District court’s granting of motions for summary judgment by Grokster and StreamCast Networks and finding that their products include substantial non-infringing uses and therefore, under the decision in Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (more commonly known …
By Scott Hervey
Real estate lawyers take heed.#160 Waiting in the tall grass of your client’s real estate development project may be a thorny copyright issue that could cost your client all of the profit it earned on the project, and would probably buy you a serious malpractice claim.
In the course of developing …
