by Joel Rothman | Aug 15, 2016 | Copyright Infringement, SRIPLAW
If you find it on the internet than it must be free. How wrong is that! It’s about time that photographers get the respect they deserve and their photographs receive the value that they deserve. Copyright infringement plaintiffs are entitled to recover actual...
by Joel Rothman | Jun 2, 2016 | Copyright Infringement, SRIPLAW
On February 5, 2014, Iran Watson brought a claim against Kappa Map Group, LLC in federal court for copyright infringement for the unlicensed use of one of Watson’s photographs on the cover of an Atlanta Street Atlas published by Kappa. Additionally, Watson brought a...
by Joel Rothman | Apr 30, 2015 | SRIPLAW
Our good friend Steve Schlackman has a great post over at Art Law Journal on trademarks. As Steve notes, many companies don’t register their trademarks during the start-up phase, usually waiting until a later time when sufficient cash is available, if registered at...
by Joel Rothman | Oct 23, 2014 | SRIPLAW
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, our firm dismissed the case against Getty Images. The dismissal was in response to a “Covenant Not to Sue” that Getty Images provided to our firm that says that, contrary to their first letter, they will not sue us...
by Joel Rothman | May 10, 2014 | SRIPLAW
KidSafe® Foundation is a nonprofit founded in 2009 by Sally Berenzweig MEd, MA and Cherie Benjoseph LCSW – child safety experts, mental health professionals, educators, authors, public speakers, and moms on a mission to keep all children safe from child abuse,...
by Joel Rothman | Mar 9, 2014 | SRIPLAW
This past week I spoke to an undergraduate level class at FIU entitled “How we know what we know” on the issue of copyright. The class is taught by Prof. Moses Shumow and Prof. George Pearson with assistance from Prof. Hugo Ottolenghi and Prof. Alfred...