A Layer Cake, or a Tower of Babel? Toward a General Theory and Test for Selection and Arrangement in Copyright Law One of the most bedeviling copyright concepts is… well, it has lots of different names. In the recent “Stairway to Heaven” decision, it was called...
Tara and Rick have each been recently been featured in a couple of well-known legal podcasts: Tara is featured in Ipse Dixit, a podcast covering legal scholarship and hosted by Brian L. Frye, a law professor at the University of Kentucky. Tara discussed privacy law...
Rick was quoted today in Managing IP’s article Led Zeppelin Ruling Should Ease Burden on Copyright Defendants about the Ninth Circuit’s en banc decision in Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin. It’s paywalled (sorry), but a free trial is available. Among other...
Wherein Some Bad Old Mistakes Are Fixed, but Led Zeppelin Need Suffer No Longer The last couple of times I blogged about the “Stairway to Heaven” case, I was defending the Ninth Circuit’s decision to send the case back down to the trial court for a re-do, even though...
There’s little doubt that STELLA ROSA wines are popular. I’ve never tried them, but I am assured by wine critic Patrick Comiskey that they “resemble wine, they’re reminiscent of wine, but no one who drinks wine regularly would mistake it for wine.” It is, however,...
