Second Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses Work Made For Hire Decision

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals had a recent occasion to discuss the issue of works made
for hire. It was in the context of what constitutes a written instrument and when such an
instrument needs...

District Court Decision

In what appeared to be a run of the mill copyright infringement claim brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the unforeseeable occurred, when the District Judge found that the infringing acts actually co...

A pervasive problem well known to many artists, photographers, and other creative persons who work on a freelance basis, is getting paid on a timely basis in the agreed amount for the work created.  Often the freelancer is left without any effective recourse.

To address...

The long, long road to block the Google Library and Book Projects may finally have come to an end, as the projects are now formally entrenched fixtures of our digital landscape. The death knell for the opposition came in the form of a Second Circuit Court of Appeals de...

David Lowery, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, has filed a class action against Spotify USA, Inc.(Spotify), alleging that Spotify has, and continues to, unlawfully reproduce and/or distribute copyrighted musical compositions to more than 75 mill...

On July 24th, United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed an action brought in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York concerning ownership of comic book art on the grounds that the action was commenced after the applicable...

On June 26, 2015, a decision of interest concerning the application of the statute of limitations and work made for hire doctrine in connection with copyright litigation was issued in the Southern District of New York. The case is Gideon Lewin vs. The Richard Avedon Fo...