04 Jun, 2021 Back By Popular Demand: the Frankfurt Kurnit Annual Advertising Law Summit! By Terri Seligman Please join us on June 24th for our Sixth Annual Advertising Law Summit. This will be our second virtual version. Not as much fun as...
11 Dec, 2024 Trump Picks Ferguson to be Next FTC Chair By Jeff Greenbaum President-Elect Donald J. Trump announced that he is picking FTC Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson to be the next Chair of the Federal...
30 Sep, 2024 Trump in a “River of Trouble” for Infringing Copyright in Classic Isaac Hayes Song By Brian Murphy Since 2020, Donald J. Trump and his campaign organization have regularly played the Sam & Dave classic “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at campaign...
04 Apr, 2024 FTC Back to its Full Five Commissioners By Jeff Greenbaum After the U.S. Senate's confirmation of two new Commissioners last month, the Federal Trade Commission is now back to its full complement...
05 Oct, 2023 New Solutions, Old Problems: The Thaler Case and Why AI Creations Will Not Be Granted Copyright Protection Easily By Lydia Mendola Thanks to Marianna Riedo for collaborating on this article In its recent ruling in the case of Thaler v. Perlmutter,[1] the United States...
01 Mar, 2023 Throwing Shade at Slim Shady? Eminem’s Opposition to the TM Registration for “Reasonably Shady” By Brian Murphy Kimberly Maynard May I have your attention, please? Shadeshady are glorious words, with rich history and evolving, overlapping and metaphorical meanings....
23 Mar, 2022 Did a Prolific TCPA Plaintiffs’ Attorney Just Argue That the Statute Does Not Regulate Text Messaging? The Hearing Transcript Says Yes By Daniel Blynn For years, the plaintiffs’ bar has been filing Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class actions alleging the receipt of...
02 Jul, 2019 Rule 40: have the Olympians finally won? By Alex Kelham The saga of Rule 40 of the Olympic Charter continues... I've previously written about the pressure that athletes have been putting on the...
06 Jan, 2020 The Murkiness of the Public Domain By Brian Murphy When the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year's eve, George Gershwin's composition "Rhapsody in Blue," along with most other works...