By: Steve Masur Tracking Creative Digital Rights: A Panel and Reception Exploring the Impact of the Blockchain on Music and the Arts Join us on November 16 (7PM ET) at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St. at Pitt St., Lower East Side, Manhattan) to learn about new paths for managing digital creative property with […]
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By: Steve Masur and Cassidy Lopez If you’ve ever made orange juice from concentrate, you probably already have a good feel for how equity dilution works. When you put the orange juice concentrate in a pitcher, you have a small amount of, well, really strong concentrated juice. As you add water, the water dilutes the […]
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By: Jon Avidor The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, (“DMCA”) provides Internet communications service providers, including website operators, with immunity from copyright infringement liability for, among other things, infringing material posted on its sites by its users, provided the online service provider implements a procedure that allows copyright holders to report alleged […]
By: Jon Avidor and Qualia C. Hendrickson Escalator. Heroin. Dry Ice. Teleprompter. Laundromat. Each of these words or phrases were originally coined as trademarks, though have since lost their distinctive nature and exclusivity as they slowly became part of the American lexicon in the years since their introduction. They’ve fallen victim to genericide. “Genericide” occurs when a […]
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By: Steve Masur and Cassidy Lopez Ride-sharing giant Uber‘s Travis Kalanick has been forced to step down from his role as CEO of the company a week after taking an “indefinite leave of absence” amid growing backlash over his leadership and corporate culture at Uber. Uber has been rocked by what seems to be a […]
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By: Jon Avidor and Qualia C. Hendrickson As we recently reported in our blog post Disparaging Trademark or Reclaimed Slur? The Supreme Court Weighs In, the high court ruled 8-0 in Matal v. Tam that the Lanham Act’s ban on disparaging marks was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment and allowed Simon Tam to move forward with […]
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Exploring the Impact of the Blockchain on Music and the Arts
By: Steve Masur Tracking Creative Digital Rights: A Panel and Reception Exploring the Impact of the Blockchain on Music and the Arts Join us on November 16 (7PM ET) at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St. at Pitt St., Lower East Side, Manhattan) to learn about new paths for managing digital creative property with […]
Equity Dilution: Is the Juice Is Worth the Squeeze?
By: Steve Masur and Cassidy Lopez If you’ve ever made orange juice from concentrate, you probably already have a good feel for how equity dilution works. When you put the orange juice concentrate in a pitcher, you have a small amount of, well, really strong concentrated juice. As you add water, the water dilutes the […]
DMCA Safe Harbor: Protecting Yourself from Copyright Infringement
By: Jon Avidor The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, (“DMCA”) provides Internet communications service providers, including website operators, with immunity from copyright infringement liability for, among other things, infringing material posted on its sites by its users, provided the online service provider implements a procedure that allows copyright holders to report alleged […]
The Pitfall of Trademark Genericide: When Household Names and Brands Collide
By: Jon Avidor and Qualia C. Hendrickson Escalator. Heroin. Dry Ice. Teleprompter. Laundromat. Each of these words or phrases were originally coined as trademarks, though have since lost their distinctive nature and exclusivity as they slowly became part of the American lexicon in the years since their introduction. They’ve fallen victim to genericide. “Genericide” occurs when a […]
Was Silicon Valley “Bro Culture” to Blame for Uber CEO’s Resignation?
By: Steve Masur and Cassidy Lopez Ride-sharing giant Uber‘s Travis Kalanick has been forced to step down from his role as CEO of the company a week after taking an “indefinite leave of absence” amid growing backlash over his leadership and corporate culture at Uber. Uber has been rocked by what seems to be a […]
Trademark Case Roundup
By: Jon Avidor and Qualia C. Hendrickson As we recently reported in our blog post Disparaging Trademark or Reclaimed Slur? The Supreme Court Weighs In, the high court ruled 8-0 in Matal v. Tam that the Lanham Act’s ban on disparaging marks was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment and allowed Simon Tam to move forward with […]