Fross Zelnick is pleased to announce that Managing Intellectual Property has recognized 12 attorneys in their annual list of IP STARS, the leading resource for companies or individuals looking for experienced legal practitioners for contentious and non-contentious IP advice. Fross Zelnick partners are ranked alongside the top senior practitioners in New York and the United States.More
Fross Zelnick Client Super Duper, Inc. Awarded $3.25 Million in Damages in Online Copyright and Trademark Infringement Action
Fross Zelnick lawyers obtained a significant recovery in a copyright and trademark infringement action in federal court on behalf of educational publisher Super Duper. (Super Duper, Inc. v. PresenceLearning, Inc., 1:20-cv-10783)
On April 25, 2022, the U.S.More
Craig S. Mende speaks to Managing IP about the US’s new copyright small claims forum
In December 2020, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (“CASE Act”) was passed. The law introduces the newly-established Copyright Claims Board (“CCB”) – the first copyright small-claims tribunal in the United States, which will hear copyright cases with actual damages of under $30,000.More
Ninth Circuit affirms dismissal of copyright suit against Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse”
Christian hip-hop artists Marcus Gray (“Flame”), Emanuel Lambert, and Chike Ojukwu, composers of the song “Joyful Noise,” sued Katy Perry and others, claiming her hit song, “Dark Horse,” copied the ostinato – a short musical phrase consisting of eight notes – in plaintiffs’ song.More
Supreme Court Rules: Ignorance of Fact or Law Can Excuse Inaccuracies in Copyright Registration
Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., 595 U.S. ___ (2022)
To obtain a copyright registration, an author must submit an application to the Register of Copyrights. If it comes to light that the information in that application was inaccurate,More
Supreme Court: Copyright Registration Prerequisite to Civil Infringement Action
Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v. Wall-Street.Com, LLC, No. 17-571, 586 U.S. ____ (2019)
In its unanimous March 4, 2019 opinion, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in holding that copyright owners must wait for the U.S.More
Supreme Court: Meaning of “Full Costs” in Section 505 of the Copyright Act Clarified
Rimini
Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., 139 S.Ct. 873 (2019)
Section 505 of the
Copyright Act permits a court to award “full costs.” The general federal statute governing awards
of costs specifies six categories of litigation expenses that qualify as
“costs:” More
European Union: New Copyright Directive
On April 15, 2019, final
approval was granted by both the European Parliament and the Council of the
European Union to The European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital
Single Market (the “Directive”), giving EU member states two years to codify
the new Directive into their own national laws. More