A series of 26 poses, which yogi Bikram Choudhury claims to have created and refers to as “the sequence,” is an “unprotectable idea” which cannot be copyrighted, the San Francisco-based…
As anyone who has ever watched Pokémon knows, Pikachu and the other characters can only say their names and nothing else. This is probably why they have a team of…
A mother’s release allowing a second-grader in New York City to participate in a clothing company’s T-shirt design contest does not preclude the child’s subsequent copyright suit, a federal judge…
The Batmobile—the car driven by Batman in the original DC Comics series—is an “automotive character” entitled to copyright protection, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
The company that has collected royalties since 1988 for use of the “Happy Birthday” song did not have a valid copyright, according to a federal judge in Los Angeles.
It’s been eight years since Stephanie Lenz posted the video of her infant son dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” onto YouTube that started her long-running conflict with Universal…
A federal judge in Colorado issued a temporary injunction last Friday barring the screening of an Aretha Franklin concert documentary at the Telluride Film Festival. Now the producers have withdrawn…
Attorney disciplinary authorities in Illinois are pursuing a legal ethics case against a Chicago lawyer known for filing a large number of copyright cases against individuals over claimed illegal downloading…
A federal judge has dismissed a California city’s copyright lawsuit over a critic’s use of Inglewood city council meeting footage in his YouTube videos.
A federal judge had been about to award damages in a high-profile copyright case over Shakira’s 2010 hit “Loca,” to a company that owns a Dominican songwriter’s work.