IPNews® – Donald Trump Jr., son of Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, recently posted a controversial Skittles Tweet.
The image is a white bowl full of rainbow colored Skittles. The text on the image compared Syrian refugees to deadly Skittles and after creating the controversy was removed from Twitter due to copyright infringement issues.
IPNews® – ABC and Yahoo are being sued for the use a California father’s live stream of his son’s birth.
The father is stating that the companies did not have permission to use the video. ABC and Yahoo claim that the event was newsworthy and that only a small portion was used thus it was
IPNews® – The owners of famous feline Grumpy Cat filed a lawsuit against its coffee maker licensee Grenade Beverage.
The lawsuit claims that Grenade used the famous Grumpy Cat images and trademark on t-shirts without authorization. The lawsuit also alleges that Grenade did not give Grumpy Cat LLC a percentage of the Grumppuccino profits
IPNews® – A federal judge has ruled that Solid Oaks, a tattoo artist company, cannot seek statutory damages or attorney’s fees in its copyright infringement lawsuit.
The lawsuit was brought against Take-Two Interactive Software and 2K Games over the use of the tattoos in video games starting in 2013. Take-Two claims the use qualifies
IPNews® – After a judge rules that an animal cannot own a copyright, PETA has filed an appeal. PETA’s case seeks to grant a monkey a copyright for a photo he took with a nature photographer’s camera. Currently the photo is seen as existing in the public domain.
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IPNews® – The ongoing saga of the case of copyright infringement between Led Zeppelin and the trust of Randy Wolfe has finally ended, with the jury finding in Led Zeppelin’s favor.
After Jimmy Page and Robert Plant testified, a federal court jury decided that they did not steal part of “Taurus” when writing their famous
IPNews® – Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses is demanding that Google take down several unflattering images of him that have been used as part of an Internet meme mocking his physical appearance.
Photos taken of Rose have been republished on the Internet making fun of his weight with headlines like: “OMFG Axl Rose is
IPNews® – Justin Bieber and Skrillex are fighting back against copyright infringement claims related to their multi-platinum song “Sorry.”
A suit filed in Nashville federal court by singer-songwriter Casey Dienel, who performs as White Hinterland, claims that “Sorry” uses a vocal riff from her song “Ring the Bell”. The sound in question is a female
IPNews® – A case against Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement over the song Stairway to Heaven will go to trial.
In the case a band named Spirit claims that Led Zeppelin copied the chord sequence from Spirit’s song “Taurus” in the song “Stairway to Heaven.” The case survived a statute of limitations defense because Stairway
IPNews® – Wildlife photographers Wendy Shattil and Robert Rozinski are suing Donald Trump’s campaign for copyright infringement, after one of their photos was found on merchandise for the GOP candidate.
The Denver-based photographers claim their photo “Bald Eagle Portrait” has appeared on Trump campaign materials without their permission. Attorneys for the couple are asking for