Author: Ethan BarrPublished: November 29, 2021The American Music Fairness Act, introduced in June 2021, would provide streams of revenue to artists whose songs are played on terrestrial radio stations, which are currently exempt from paying royalties.Click here to view entire blog article at Lutzker & Lutzker.
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Author: Susan LutzkerPublished: December 10, 2021The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Allen v. Cooper, Governor of North Carolina appeared to be the death knell for copyright owners seeking redress in federal court for infringements by state entities. In the wake of Allen, Congress asked the Copyright Office to examine the
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Author: Carolyn Wimbly Martin, Ethan BarrPublished: November 30th, 2020Embedding photos linked to an Instagram account was not considered copyright infringement until some recent court decisions determined otherwise, leaving social media platforms scrambling to protect user content.Click here to view entire blog article at Lutzker & Lutzker.
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly Martin, Ethan BarrPublished: December 30th, 2020Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is designed to prevent users from illicitly copying or distributing copyrighted material. However, content providers have also used the technology to remove content from users e-libraries that consumers have been led to believe were purchases, rather than short
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly MartinPublished: December 30th, 2020The 5,593-page coronavirus relief and government spending bill passed by Congress without much discussion in the final days of 2020 contains several pieces of intellectual property legislation worth noting. These Acts would impact trademark applications and registrations as well as intellectual property litigation. The following
Read MoreAuthor: Susan LutzkerPublished: January 4th, 2021The nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland to be the first Native American Secretary of the Interior may be reason to hope that existing federal statutes protecting Native American cultural resources will be enforced. Even with such enforcement, vulnerabilities will remain as traditional intellectual property remedies have
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Author: Lutzker & LutzkerPublished: July 23rd, 2020After nearly ten years of litigation, in April and July 2020 the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed two Final Distribution orders of the Copyright Royalty Board affecting copyright royalties for 1999-2013. The share of royalties of L&L clients grew dramatically — from 1%
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