Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

You have to tip your hi-hat to Eddie Lee Richardson, a/k/a Hotwire the Producer, a/k/a the plaintiff in this case. When he was 16 years...

So, it is happening. The animated short “Steamboat Willie,” which was released in 1928 and features an early version of Mickey Mouse,...

During the holidays, the television in my octogenarian parents' home toggles back-and-forth between Fox News (my father's choice) and the...

Be honest. Were you as puzzled as I the first time you (mis)heard Taylor Swift, in "Blank Space," singing about “all the lonely Starbucks...

Within ten days of each other, two Ninth Circuit panels took up the question of whether complaints alleging copyright infringement had...

In the 2019-2020 term, the Supreme Court issued two copyright opinions that seemed, at the time (at least to me), to be of little...

2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Texas A&M University's "12th man" tradition. For those who are not familiar with the...

Plaintiff Michael Hayden is an American who, in the late 1980s, was living la dolce vita in Italy, working as an artist and set designer....

El Señor de los Cielos - a telenovela that originally aired on Telemundo and currently is available for streaming on various platforms -...

Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer are not fans of Instagram's embedding functionality. And they (and their counsel) are nothing, if not...

Another day, another copyright lawsuit involving car advertising. Last week's case - our first nominee for "Silliest Copyright Case of...

Lawyers often tell clients: put it in writing. A corollary, which often goes unsaid (but perhaps shouldn't), is: save a copy. This case...

Taylor Swift just can't ... give it the slip ... skip out on it ... pay no mind to it ... Oh, Jiminy Cricket. I'm just going to say it....

On January 1, 2022, all literary works, compositions, and films first published in 1926, and all pre-1923 sound recordings, will enter...

Chef Chloe Coscarelli - the first vegan chef to be crowned a winner on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars - has been waging a years-long,...

Yet another photo embedding case, but this time Instagram wins based on the court's application of the "server test."  The plaintiffs own...