Settlement strategy subtlety

I listened to a CD of a CLE today Policing and Protecting Copyrights on the Internet, offered by Strafford.  The participants were David Young and Andrew Bridges, both very experienced copyright litigators.  The discussion briefly touched on Google’s recent settlement with the book publishing industry concerning Google Book Search. In a nutshell, Google had been [...]

The definitive answer in the Obama poster debate

Stephen Colbert recently hosted a debate between David Ross, former Director of the Whitney Museum, and Stephen’s brother Ed, a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon who specializes in copyright.  This debate produced what I think is probably the definitive answer on how the Shepard Fairey copyright debate should come out. The money quote: STEPHEN: Who [...]

The Obama Poster Copyright Mess

One of the more interesting things going on in “popular IP” right now is the Shepard Fairey copyright dispute.  This has been blogged about and written about extensively elsewhere, but to sum up where it’s at right now: Mannie Garcia took a photograph of Obama. The AP (maybe) acquired the rights to the photograph from [...]