In University of Alabama Board of Trustees v. New Life Art,[1] the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama considered the issue of whether the University of Alabama had trademark rights in its school colors of “crimson and white.”  Alabama’s board of trustees sued painter Daniel Moore, an artist renowned for his oil paintings of great moments in football history. Read more…

It’s not enough that copyright infringers are employing electronic means to easily copy photographs and artwork from the internet; or that infringers decompile, crack, hack or hijack software code; or that infringers continue to steal music, motion pictures and television shows under the guise of file sharing; or that infringers reproduce complete architectural drawings and pilot scripts with a few key-strokes on a computer. Read more…

Here is a common scenario that many copyright lawyers will see on a continuous basis. Your client produces a video, photograph, literary work or other protectable material which is accessible online as part of an Internet site that requires a fee to access. Read more…