Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Tattoos and fair use. Again. (See this post from last month.) The plaintiff Jeffrey Sedlik is a photographer who took (and owns the...

A panel of the Ninth Circuit has affirmed that the “server test” remains the law of the land - at least in that circuit, and at least for...

On January 6, 2021, photojournalist Robyn Brody captured footage (here) of Kelly Meggs and other members of the Florida Oath Keepers,...

Here is the scene. You are walking in Central Park. A group of tourists comes up to you and asks you to take their picture. They hand you...

Tiffany Mitchell (@tifforeli), an influencer who currently has just under 200,000 followers on Instagram, likes to ride a beemer....

Yes, another copyright case involving Prince (of Paisley Park, not of Wales). (But not the biggie.) And another case dealing with the...

Elliot McGucken is an award-winning fine-art photographer who specializes in natural landscapes. (Check out his website.) In March of...

On April 12, 2017, The New York Post published an article entitled "Why I won’t date hot women anymore," a thoughtful exploration of just...

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

"Oppenheimer is a professional photographer and, it seems, a professional litigant."  And so begins another opinion about another...

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

This is an update to our prior post on the Second Circuit's important fair use ruling in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc....

Plaintiff owns the copyright in a photo of Meghan Markle, also known as the Duchess of Sussex, taken at a high school dance she attended...

Plaintiff Jawad Elatab is described in his complaint as "a professional photographer in the business of licensing his photographs to...

Another court refuses, at the pleading stage, to rule on whether a social media platform's TOS (this time, Twitter's) authorizes a news...

Jon Hamm apparently likes to go commando. We know this because in 2013, HuffPost published an article entitled "25 Things You Wish You...