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Updated: Michigan Trademark Law Treatise
This is a quick update to let you know that a treatise chapter I authored on Michigan trademark law has just been updated. If you subscribe to the Practical Law resource website from Thomson Reuters,...
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Feeling Minnesota: Has Prince’s Right of Publicity Disappeared?
In the unlikely event that any West Coast celebrities out there had been considering a move to Minnesota, an article published today on WealthManagement.com will give them pause. It makes the...
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Supreme Court Gives Guidance on Award of Fees in Copyright Cases
credit: maria elena / flickr Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued its unanimous opinion in the Kirtsaeng case, concerning the standards that govern the award of attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party...
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The New Axanar-Inspired Guidelines for Star Trek Fan Films
If you’ve been tuned at all to developments in the science fiction or intellectual property fields, you know that Paramount Pictures and CBS have been pursuing copyright infringement litigation against...
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Website Owners Beware — Ignoring This Rule Could Leave You on the Hook for...
Every company whose website or other online service contains any third-party content needs to be aware of a new regulation issued by the U.S. Copyright Office. The new rule, which takes effect December...
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The Time Judge Gorsuch Brought Copyright Law Into the 21st Century
Good news: the newest nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court gets copyright law, including how it does–and doesn’t–apply to emerging forms of digital media. The 10th Circuit’s 2008 decision in Meshwerks v...
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Why Lego Batman Disses Iron Man in His Movie, But Not in the Trailers
Being the father of a five-year-old son, my first order of business last weekend was to see the new Lego Batman Movie. (Confession: I would have gone anyway.) Also because of the aforementioned son,...
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Legal and Regulatory Warnings for AR/VR Startups
Live-blogging from Augmented World Expo 2017 photo credit Mark Piszczor Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of presenting with Captain Joe Rampolla on Legal and Regulatory Updates at AWE 2017. The...
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Will Pokemon Go Evolve Into Customer Confusion?
I’ve written at length about the potential for customer confusion arising from the association of digital advertisements with physical billboards and other commercial properties via augmented reality....
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Hey, David Slater? Please Sue Me!
The "Monkey Selfie" Guy Goes Bananas Unless you’re new to this whole “internet” thing, you’ve seen this “monkey selfie” photo before, which was taken by said monkey. You may even have heard that the...
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