Uncategorized – Page 15 – Cohn Legal, PLLC

Google’s Library Project and the Decade-Long Legal Battle that Followed

UncategorizedBy CLG Attorneys October 25, 2015

Google, the often-verbed champion of the search engine, faced a lawsuit from the Author’s Guild in 2013 over Google Books’s “Library Project.” Since 2004, Google has worked with several libraries to create something of an online card catalog that, as Google proclaims, aims to make finding relevant books easier for those looking for them – “specifically, books they wouldn’t find any other way such as those that are out of print.” Naturally, this ain’t grandma’s…

The Wolf of Wall Street: Yet Another Theft?

UncategorizedBy CLG Attorneys October 11, 2015

Andrew Greene, an ex-director and head of corporate finance at Stratton Oakmont, Inc., the subject of the 2013 hit Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street, brought suit against Paramount Pictures and others last year alleging defamation and violations of his right to privacy under the laws of New York. Greene claims that the character Nicky “Rugrat” Koskoff is an identifiable portrayal of him, and that people who have watched the movie believe that…

Hey! You! Get Off Of My (Sound)Cloud!

UncategorizedBy CLG Attorneys October 4, 2015

Early this summer it was rumored that Universal Music Group and Sony Music were preparing to file lawsuits against SoundCloud, the popular Swedish music-streaming service (based in Berlin) that over the past eight years has helped tons of budding musicians advance their careers. SoundCloud only streams user-uploaded music, which in large part is made up of original compositions from smaller artists. The problem is that a lot of these artists are DJs who use non-original,…

Wait Before You Send That Takedown Notice: Courts Demand Inquiry Into Fair Use

UncategorizedBy CLG Attorneys September 28, 2015

Back in 2007, proud mother Stephanie Lenz recorded a video of her young son happily bouncing about to Prince’s song, “Let’s Go Crazy.” The video is only 29 seconds long, but received a gigantic amount of attention when Lenz went to court over it. Universal Music Publishing Group complained to YouTube that the video infringed a copyright that Universal owns, and demanded that the video to be taken down. YouTube complied, and Lenz fought back.…

Copyright: An International Concern

UncategorizedBy CLG Attorneys September 14, 2015

On the first of September, at the request of rights holders representing Norwegian branches of United States media companies, a district court in Oslo, Norway ordered Norwegian internet service providers to block access to large file sharing websites such as The Pirate Bay. The injunctions will last for five years, and will apply to any new domain names that the companies may move to. If this story sounds old, that’s probably because these file sharing…

Category Archives: Uncategorized

Cohn Legal, PLLC IP BLOG

Google’s Library Project and the Decade-Long Legal Battle that Followed

The Wolf of Wall Street: Yet Another Theft?

Hey! You! Get Off Of My (Sound)Cloud!

Wait Before You Send That Takedown Notice: Courts Demand Inquiry Into Fair Use

Copyright: An International Concern