This year started with a district court decision defining the parameters of parody and trademark infringement and ended with ...

Alan R. Friedman, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, writes that the recent ruling in Salinger v. Colting provides some reassurance to copyright owners that more than an after-the-fact rationale as ...

After her unauthorized parody, The People’s Joker, was pulled from the TIFF lineup after one showing, creator Vera Drew is setting the record straight on the film’s legal status and its future. In a ...

A Black Eyed Peas song is at the center of a lawsuit filed against the makers of a pooping unicorn doll for copyright infringement. There’s a lot packed into that sentence, so let’s break it down.

After the CJEU recently defined parody in a copyright case, Eniko Karsay, Laetitia Lagarde and Nikos Prentoulis examine how trade mark laws around the world treat the concept of fair use In its recent ...

A federal district court has dismissed a plaintiff's claim that the parody of a music video in an episode of use of a song in an episode of the popular show "South Park" constitutes infringement.