The family of the late comedian and film star Chris Farley has filed a federal lawsuit against Trek Bicycle for naming its fat-tired bikes Farley.

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Remember the Marlboro Man, that stalwart image forever linked to the American West? A symbol of ruggedness, he was used by the Philip Morris tobacco company to sell millions and millions of cigarettes from 1954 to 1999.

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A so-called “porn troll” has filed 60 lawsuits in Wisconsin’s federal courts since February, accusing Internet users of illegally downloading erotic movies.

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to make a federal case out of a legal malpractice claim arising from a patent suit.

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons Inc. could have a direct effect not only on copyright law, but also on consumers’ ability to do things as commonplace as hold garage sales, see works at a museum or buy and sell personal goods online.

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I recently came across an interesting cluster of similar statements from copyright decisions in the late 1950s and early 1960s, which struck me as significant: It is a curious fact that although the Copyright Law has remained without relevant change since 1909 this case should present a question both basic and novel. Does either the Copyright Act or the common law provide copyright owners with a remedy against non-manufacturing sellers of unauthorized phonograph recordings of copyrighted songs?

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Some theft of intellectual property is easy to spot. Think of a black market in Shanghai where for a few dollars visitors can snap up DVDs of “Hugo” or some other movie still playing in American theaters.

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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg invoked Aaron Copland. The chief justice countered with Jimi Hendrix. The high court’s generational divide was on display Wednesday as the justices heard arguments about whether Congress acted ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has heard arguments over a law that extended copyright protection to millions of works by foreign artists and authors that had been in the public domain – meaning they could be performed and used ...

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Intellectual Property Copyright; mathematical equations Mathematical equations cannot be copyrighted. “On appeal, Professor Ho and Ms. Huang maintain that there are numerous ways to express the Model and therefore that, as a consequence, the merger doctrine does not apply. The ...

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Copyright Attorney fees The prevailing party in a copyright action was properly awarded attorney fees, although the suit was filed in good faith. “HyperQuest acknowledges that it is not easy to overturn an award of fees. It asserts, however, that ...

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Columbia, S.C. - Lawyers don't need anyone's blessing to copyright their own work. The question is, when they do, are their claimed rights enforceable?

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