I love being a lawyer and have loved being a lawyer since I was admitted to practice more than 30 years ago. So, as a lawyer who loves being a lawyer, I have always been somewhat saddened and confused by the general population’s contempt for lawyers. We’ve all heard the numerous lawyer jokes and seen […]
In a case that presents a crossfire of First Amendment and intellectual property issues, the Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case involving an Asian-American band that calls itself “the Slants.” The Slants had been denied a trademark for their name by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under a Federal law that […]
Having waged literally thousands of battles against Getty Images’ copyright trolling program I was not surprised to see that they engaged a French law firm to attack US authors for alleged defamation in France. That’s what happened to a client of mine recently who has a blog that exposes, challenges and criticizes Getty Images’demand letter […]
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