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The sports-media industry has recently experienced a proliferation of litigation involving right-of-publicity claims asserted by student-athletes for the unauthorized use of their names, images and likenesses. The most highly publicized cases have been...

Tomita Technologies International, Inc. owns U.S. Patent No. 7,417,664 issued in 2008 relating to stereoscopic 3-D images on-screen for viewing with the naked eye. Tomita International granted an exclusive license to the patent to Tomita Technologies...

I keep hearing more and more state legislators talk about imposing taxes on "violent video games." It reminded me of an article I wrote earlier this year about such proposals. Back in February, bored Oklahoma lawmakers took a break from playing...

I keep hearing more and more state legislators talk about imposing taxes on "violent video games." It reminded me of an article I wrote earlier this year about such proposals. Back in February, bored Oklahoma lawmakers took a break from playing...

I just received the monthly newsletter of the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board. Not Fun and Games: Lawyer with Video Game Addiction Suspended This month's most interesting disciplinary decision is the case of Office of Disciplinary Counsel...

By: Neil Magnuson and Robert Van Arnam Over the last few months, Walker Digital, a patent holding company formed by Priceline.com founder Jay Walker, has filed infringement suits against over 100 companies, particularly targeting the video game...

By Ryan Lindsey and Nick Setty In Thorner v. Sony Computer Entertainment America , LLC (Case No. 2011-1114, Feb. 1, 2012) (Moore*, Rader & Aiken (D. Or. sitting by designation)) [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], the Federal...

In the story Peter Pan , Peter loses his shadow and is forced to chase it down in order to reattach it. A shadow isn't very substantive, but like any person, Peter wants his back because it is his shadow and his property. We take our shadows for granted...

In the story Peter Pan , Peter loses his shadow and is forced to chase it down in order to reattach it. A shadow isn't very substantive, but like any person, Peter wants his back because it is his shadow and his property. We take our shadows for granted...

Although the First Amendment does not play a role in the majority of trademark infringement cases, video games are considered to be a form of artistic expression. Thus, a defendant was able to argue successfully that the First Amendment allows it to use...

Although the First Amendment does not play a role in the majority of trademark infringement cases, video games are considered to be a form of artistic expression. Thus, a defendant was able to argue successfully that the First Amendment allows it...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it unlawful to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected by copyright and to traffic in devices designed to accomplish that end. Previously, wonderment...

An Indiana federal court has ruled that the Indiana right of publicity statute, which has the longest post-mortem period of continuing the right of publicity, does not apply to personalities who died before 1994, the year the statute was enacted...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it unlawful to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected by copyright and to traffic in devices designed to accomplish that end. Previously, wonderment was...

Shots have been fired between Battlefield 3's manufacturer, Electronic Arts (EA), and Textron Inc., the owner of the trademark and trade dress for Bell-manufactured AH-1Z, U1-1-1Y and V-22 helicopters. Textron has demanded that EA immediately cease...