Applications to Register a Trademark Can Give Away Your Position BLACK OPS is a great name for beer. It suggests (and doesn’t merely describe) the beer as dark, secret and elite. It’s as though only you and a select few know about this beer. The thing about excellent...
Broadband Isn’t a “Draw” for Infringement, but What About Substantial Non-infringing Uses? Back in late 2014, two of Rightscorp’s clients, BMG Music and Round Hill Music, sued the cable operator and internet-service provider, Cox Communications, for copyright...
DMCA = Darth’s Malicious Copyright Attack Warning: careful about clicking some of the links. There may be spoilers. Well, a spoiler. I have it on good authority that Star Wars fans were surprised to discover an action figure1Star Wars action figures are a major thing,...
All We Really Learned Is that Even Big Corporations Don’t Always Run Things by Counsel. We have learned quite a lot about the contours of the DMCA safe harbors over the last few years, thanks to record labels swinging for the fences, Viacom and Google’s tenacity in...
Maybe Spotify Isn’t Cannibalizing Music Sales, But Artists Still Aren’t Getting Paid1Although Aaron | Sanders is based in Nashville, we don’t really represent songwriters or artists. There are lots of “music” and “entertainment” lawyers to handle that work....
