Author: Susan LutzkerPublished: February 24th, 2021Rights to tangible religious property in the Indian legal system can be held and enforced by deities, who are considered juridical persons. Some cultural monuments and religious sites have become embroiled in a larger battle to reinterpret Indian history. The Indian practice is part of
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Author: Carolyn Wimbly MartinPublished: February 21st, 2021The following is one in a series of articles by Lutzker & Lutzker on Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular facial recognition. Here we discuss the need for clear facial recognition use policies and restraint in its use until certain ethical and equitable issues
Read MoreAuthor: 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 MartinPublished: December 22nd, 2020This blog addresses legal and practical considerations as cities, states and the federal government grapple with issues surrounding the names of public spaces.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
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly Martin, Ethan BarrPublished: January 22nd, 2021Controlled digital lending (CDL), the digitization of physical books for e-lending, has been hotly debated in the field of copyright law. Here we explore the tug-of-war between equal access to information and the rights of copyright owners.Click here to view entire blog article
Read MoreAuthor: Susan LutzkerPublished: September 26, 2020As many of us update the design and content of our online presence periodically, it’s important to pay attention to the legal aspects - to assure we own the content and design of the site, to guard against infringing third-party rights and to limit our liability by
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly MartinPublished: September 24, 2020Drones are nothing new, but recent concerns about their use by government officials for the surveillance of peaceful protests have ignited pleas for increased privacy protection. And their widespread use by laypeople increases the risks of invasions of the privacy of ordinary citizens. Here we
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