An independent music label has filed a lawsuit against Parkwood Entertainment, the label founded by Beyoncé, over copyright ...

While Shaun Gray, a cousin of 'Maverick' screenwriter Eric Warren Singer, was denied a court order that he's a co-author of ...

The listing website CoStar is suing Seattle-based Zillow, claiming Zillow illegally uses tens of thousands of CoStar photos ...

The Portland Pickles have reached a settlement agreement with Disney after filing a copyright infringement lawsuit in May, ...

The case, filed in a New York federal court on July 30, includes claims Zillow is using watermarked images owned by CoStar ...

CoStar CEO Andy Florance threatened to sue Redfin and Realtor.com if they do not “immediately remove our images.” ...

A copyright is harder to enforce when the work in question has little to no creative or expressive element, when its secondary use is limited to a small portion of the original work or when ...

Infringement can occur whether or not the violating party seeks monetary gain through the use of the material in question, though any argument against copyright infringement is usually considered ...

In addition to independent creation, the most common copyright infringement defense is the principle of fair use. To assert a fair use defense, the defendant must typically demonstrate a ...

It’s the unauthorized distribution of a work that amounts to copyright infringement, not its mere creation. We need a legal ...

Pursuant to this standard, a copyright defendant may be liable for willful infringement if it fails to make any "attempt to check or inquire into" the copyright status of a design when it "has a ...

The bottom line is that common sense now seems to prevail when it comes to music copyright infringement cases, and it’s about time. May it continue this way for a long time.