This week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissals of two right of publicity claims against Corbis Corp. — Shirley Jones v. Corbis Corp. and Alberghetti v. Corbis Corp. In the Jones case, the court held that Shirley Jones, star of the TV show “The Partridge Family,” had given her implicit consent to

Today’s Hollywood Reporter looks at the upcoming comedy Someone Marry Barry, starring Tyler Labine, Damon Waynes, Jr. and Lucy Punch, which just wrapped production. The story follows three friends plotting to get rid of their socially inappropriate friend Barry by “marrying him off” — a plan that backfires when Barry’s new wife ends up as

The United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently put Ralph Lauren’s famous polo player back on his horse in granting the petition of PRL USA Holdings, Inc., a Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation subsidiary (“PRL”) to cancel the trademark registration of Thread Pit, Inc. (“Thread Pit”).

On Wednesday, July 25 (10:30am — 2pm), Mary E. Rasenberger will be speaking at Fordham’s Luncheon Conference on Copyright Developments in China on the panel “Developments in Substantive Copyright Law”. Along with a focus on changes in substantive law, the conference will also address internet regulation, judicial trends and conflicts with other trends. The Intellectual

“Mind-blowing”… “All the more astonishing because it actually happened,” writes The Hollywood Reporter in praise of The Imposter, which opened Friday to wide acclaim (and is The New York Times Critics’ Pick this week). This “fiendishly clever” true-crime documentary explores the mystery of a 13 year-old Texas boy who disappeared in 1994 — He returns

Comic books and movies once again join forces for Comic-Con (Thursday, July 12 through Sunday, July 15), with nearly 130,000 packing the San Diego Convention Center this week. Details of the Robocop reboot were released today from Comic-Con, just days after the viral teaser-trailer for the highly-anticipated film began buzzing across the Internet, the subject

On Wednesday, July 18 from 9:30am to 11:00am, Timothy J. DeBaets will lead a discussion on legal issues in the television industry, as part of the Midmorning Exchange at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New York City. Mr. DeBaets will address some key legal concerns in a rapidly evolving landscape of

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From Executive Producer Ralph Macchio and CDAS client Stick Figure Productions, comes American Gypsies, an intimate portrayal of the Johnses, a Romani family, and their effort to preserve age-old customs amid the vices of New York City, while upholding their family’s place in the community and expanding their psychic shop empire. Here in the course

The Copyright Office issued a statement of policy (37 CFR Part 201), effective June 22, 2012, to clarify the practices relating to the claims in compilations, and in particular claims involving the selection of uncopyrightable subject matter. The definition of a “compilation” in Section 101 of the Copyright Act is a work formed by the