Prof. Menell Comments on 15% of My Article; I Respond. This is the first of a series of blog posts in which I respond, in detail, to the following assertion by Prof. Peter Menell in a recent blog post post made on the Media Institute’s website: Mr. Rick Sanders also...
Good Planning > Poor Planning, but Luck Sometimes Trumps All On March 10, I published a blog post about the emotional legal dispute between the small publisher of Candyswipe, called Runsome Apps, and the much larger international publisher of Candy Crush Saga,...
What’s Really Going on in the CandySwipe Dispute You may have heard about the dispute between King.com Ltd. (maker of Candy Crush Saga*) and the independent developer Albert Ransom, whose little company, Runsome Apps Inc. publishes the mobile computer game CandySwipe,...
Part 3 of 3: When Doing Nothing Is the Best Choice This is the last in a series of posts about how the popular quasi-charitable event organizer, The Color Run, got into such a serious scrape with a freelance photographer because of a too-casual copyright license. As I...
Part 2 of 3: The Photographer’s Case Last time, I discussed how The Color Run, a party with (as we’ll see) fairly sophisticated IP counsel, got into such a pretty bad, but avoidable, public-relations scrape with a freelance photographer, Maxwell Jackson, who is (as...
