Welcome to our monthly recap of stories relating to intellectual property (including copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, etc.) and entertainment law – art, animation, television, film, digital games, etc. This week’s stories cover many issues including: TV Nielsen ratings errors; Star Wars Rebels; Chobani in trademark dispute; Googling not generic; Literary lions unite against Amazon; artist loses Avatar copyright complaint; new judge sought in cartoon studio lawsuit; SAG-AFTRA ratifies 2014 contracts; Met Opera’s labor woes; and more.
These are some of the articles, reports, posts, etc. that caught our attention this week. We originally send them out through our twitter account @dg_iplaw, so follow us to get them as we find them. But many of them are such great resources we don’t want you to miss them, so we’ve decided to put them as a weekly recap. The links will take you to their original sources, whether Mashable, Lexology, and/or others. Enjoy and let us know some of the stories you’ve found interesting this week. Just share in the comments below. Have a great week!
- ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,’ a Victory Lap at MoMA – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/CG1MU
- The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/CFZGK
- TV Ratings by Nielsen Had Errors for Months – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/CFZqx
- Two Champions of Children Are Given Nobel Peace Prize – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/CFZ6X
- A Met Exhibition Spotlights a Lauder Trove of Cubism – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/CFW48
- YouTube Takes Manhattan – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/CFTgy
- Amid rampant data breaches and hacks, biometrics takes off | Elsevier Connect http://ow.ly/CuUGC
- ‘Star Wars Rebels,’ an Animated Series on Disney – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/CqUeX
- To Lure Young Readers, Nonfiction Writers Sanitize and Simplify http://ow.ly/CqQkN
- National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2014: Engaging All Americans in Online Safety http://ow.ly/Co0qg
- Movie Watchdog Group Gives Out Its First Seal of Approval – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/CnX1S
- Chobani and Dov Seidman Wrestle Over Use of ‘How’ Trademark – Our Understanding of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/Cnm7C
- Don’t Lose Your Trademark Through Careless Licensing http://bit.ly/YY5SNv | by @proskauer
- District Court Rules ‘Googling’ Not Generic | Law Technology News http://ow.ly/C9pC3
- Game Change: The ABA and Self-Help Legal Shops Seek Common Ground http://ow.ly/C9prX
- Woman Claims Disney Plagiarized ‘Frozen’ http://ow.ly/C7V89
- Beats Takes Headphone Fight to Court http://ow.ly/C7UTh
- Taylor Swift’s Personal Services Firm Sued http://ow.ly/C7UN7
- DreamWorks Animation May Have Japanese Suitor – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/C3UI4
- Magazines Get a Way to Measure Their Reach Across Media Platforms – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/C3UDx
- Literary Lions Unite in Protest Over Amazon’s E-Book Tactics – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/C3UnO
- Russia Mulls Boycott of Hollywood Movies Amid U.S. Sanctions, Negative Portrayals http://ow.ly/BUTjH
- ‘Lost Negatives’ Owner Sues Attorney for Fraud http://ow.ly/BSVtZ
- Arkansas Judge Ousted For Improper Social Media Posts http://ow.ly/BPQLE
- Al Jazeera America Files Nasty Counterclaim Against Al Gore http://ow.ly/BPQvl
- A Writerly Chill at Jeff Bezos’ Campfire – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BN44G
- Warner Bros., After Shake-Up and Shaky Summer, Digs In – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BN3up
- Artist Loses ‘Avatar’ Copyright Complaint http://ow.ly/BIJdu
- ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Trial Hinges On What Constitutes a Sequel http://ow.ly/BIJ8E
- ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ Turns 25 – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BDFAv
- ‘What Happened to My Warhol?’ http://ow.ly/BBi5T
- New Judge Sought in Cartoon Studio Lawsuit http://ow.ly/BBhT8
- Honey Badger’ Narrator Sues T-Shirt Companies http://ow.ly/BBhMB
- Hollywood’s Old-Time Star Makers Are Swooping In on YouTube’s Party – Line by Line, E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BvrYk
- Bob Crewe, Songwriter for Frankie Valli and Four Seasons, Dies at 83 – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BtYTT
- Europeans Bracing for Netflix – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BtYR7
- Film Angel Says He Was Clipped for $11 Million http://ow.ly/BtY7Q
- The Surreal Fine-Art Spectacle in Laguna Beach – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BtXNT
- A Monet of One’s Own – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BtXGD
- Suspended lawyer blames leisure lifestyle for misstatements, acknowledges snarky emails http://ow.ly/Bqa1R
- ‘Last Tango’ Licensor Sues MGM for $6 Million http://ow.ly/Bozp1
- Legal Challenges To Daily Fantasy Sports Games Disappearing http://ow.ly/BnIfa
- Cartoon Studios Fixed Wages, Artists Claim http://ow.ly/BnI69
- Brazilian Company Sued Over Cover Song http://ow.ly/BnHRf
- Photographer Sues Rod Stewart http://ow.ly/Bj0zB
- The Digital Legal Horizon for Solo Practitioners (The Future of Law) http://ow.ly/BiMw5
- FREE LECTURE Protecting Your Art, Copyrights with Deborah Gonzalez – Binders http://ow.ly/Beu2T
- Wise buys: 50 women artists worth watching: http://bit.ly/1CJ7b2R
- White Paper: Top Social Media Monitoring Tools of 2012 http://ciowhitepapers.com/owp/184/1
- Cyber Liability Insurance Demand Expected to Outstrip Supply by Beth Bacheldor :: Privacy Risks Advisors http://wp.me/p1yTNN-m6
- Deadmau5 v.s. Disney: Legal battle brewing http://ow.ly/BdTFX
- Rolling Up a Picasso – Video – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BdTn4
- NFL Player Says Man Cheated Him for Reality Show http://ow.ly/BaU5K
- Designer Can Pursue Lawsuit Against Jay-Z http://ow.ly/BaTWs
- A Legal Battle Over Vivian Maier’s Work – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/BaTju
- Oracle Loses Sight of Massive Copyright Award http://ow.ly/B52iy
- Man Claims TV Show Depicted Him as Murderer http://ow.ly/B5293
- ‘Sister Wives’ Star Wins Battle Over Utah Polygamy Ban http://ow.ly/B524O
- Zelda Williams returns to Twitter with anti-bullying message http://ow.ly/B26UE
- Three Ways Your Personal Photos Are Vulnerable To Hackers http://ow.ly/AYP11
- Legal Brawl Over Ann Richards Documentary http://ow.ly/AV4ag
- Art Shows, Classes Workshops Conferences http://www.artisking.org #artlife sponsored @bindersart @c4atlanta @wonderroot @burnawayga @dg_iplaw
- Toons Tackle Ice Bucket Challenge | Animation Magazine http://ow.ly/AR9oN
- Security experts identify top 10 software design flaws http://ow.ly/AOHvp
- Detroit Mum on Proposal to Use Its Art as Collateral – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/ALRVG
- As Online Video Surges, the .TV Domain Rides the Wave – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/ALRSA
- Supreme Court social media rap-lyrics case brings Eminem into the fold | Ars Technica http://ow.ly/AKFci
- What’s Twitch? Gamers Know, and Amazon Is Spending $1 Billion on It – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AJjGk
- Hip-Hop Mogul Demands $4M From Label http://ow.ly/AHGTq
- ‘Criminal Minds’ Actor Sued for Commissions http://ow.ly/AHGMR
- ‘Dating Naked’ Contestant Sues Viacom for $10 Million http://ow.ly/AHGBU
- Judge Won’t Enjoin Commodores Revival http://ow.ly/AHGvg
- SAG-AFTRA Ratifies 2014 TV/Theatrical Contracts http://ow.ly/AHGm7
- Dealing With Digital Cruelty – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AHEYY
- Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Film, Dies at 90 – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AHEiv
- Emmy Awards Gain Luster as Competition Stiffens – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AHEcj
- Of cyberbullying and Robin Williams: Legal liability for defamatory or offensive comments http://ow.ly/AHCDa
- Advertising And IP Law At The Cutting Edge | The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel http://ow.ly/AHCsw
- Architect Zaha Hadid Claims New York Review of Books Defamed Her http://ow.ly/AHCfg
- Wake up every morning with the idea that something wonderful is possible today.
- Why do we need fairy tales? http://on.nypl.org/VIxtR6
- Evolving Standards in Terms of Service/Use Agreements http://www.snsanalytics.com/AepLy6
- Affecting sculpture about our relationship to technology http://boingboing.net/2014/08/24/affecting-sculpture-about-our.html …
- Gawker Can’t Dodge Interns Class Action Suit http://ow.ly/ABMWK
- Now Defending the Liberal Arts on Twitter: a Couple of Cartoons http://ow.ly/Azgbs
- In Surprise Finale at Metropolitan Opera’s Labor Talks, Both Sides Agree to Cuts http://ow.ly/Axzw7
- Court Addresses Bitcoin, Other Novel Online Technology Issues http://ow.ly/AxyxA
- “Dark Knight Rises” does not infringe http://ow.ly/AxxxN
- Those Underappreciated Female Video Game Pioneers – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AxxoL
- Homer Simpson Hologram at Comic-Con Draws Patent Lawsuit http://ow.ly/ArehG
- The Bacall Standard – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/Ared7
- On Broadway Today, a Name Above the Title Isn’t That Hard to Get – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/ArbJO
- Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/Ar5Ah
- Do you have business secrets you’d rather not have your competitors know about? Find out how to protect them: http://bit.ly/176JCUQ #IPLaw
- Summary Of The U.S. Trademark Application Process http://bit.ly/XI1Skj | by @LadasParry
- A letter from Time Warner interns describing what they did this Summer. http://www.timewarner.com/blog/posts/20140813-a-letter-from-the-interns …
- A great opportunity at the U.S. Copyright Office for up and coming copyright lawyers http://go.usa.gov/EZFd
- Where do you read? In honor of @NYPL‘s #ireadeverywhere, enjoy Andreas Gursky’s epic “Library” http://gu.gg/An56J
- Some of the most memorable and powerful life stories are about regular people in extraordinary situations http://on.nypl.org/1A80F3C
- I loved the movie – ‘Finding Neverland’ Opens at American Repertory Theater http://ow.ly/AmlA2
- Indian Dance and Music at the Drive East Festival – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/Aml0U
- The Internet of Words http://ow.ly/Amb9Z
- Digitizing Warhol’s Film Trove to Save It – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AjMUy
- German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/Ah92h
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Public Domain | Corporate Counsel http://ow.ly/Ah6yP
- The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up All the World’s Vinyl Records – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AetmF
- Swoon Blurs the Line Between Art and Activism – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AetiV
- Is Money Ruining Music Festivals? – Room for Debate – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AesMT
- Media Companies Spin Off Newspapers, to Uncertain Futures – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AesIO
- An Audacious Studio Rattles Hollywood – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AesGt
- Met’s Labor Woes Divide Opera Fans as Well as Participants – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AesCv
- Sensing a Tsum Tsum Craze Afoot, Disney Rushes to Supply Fans – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/Aesvf
- Will 3-D Printers Change the World? – Room for Debate – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AerdT
- Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Actor, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/AeqLf
- Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/A6ETj
- Who owns the copyright to monkey’s selfie? Wikimedia denies photographer’s takedown request http://ow.ly/A6Ejd
- Cartoonists, GHT writer unite for anti-bullying book – Gaylord Herald Times: Community http://ow.ly/A4YHd
- Courthouse News Service Entertainment Law http://ow.ly/A4Yyb
- Socrates Takes a Back Seat to Business and Tech – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/A3VLC
- Nickelodeon’s Digital Generation – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/A3Rhh
- Comic Character Creators Fight for Cash and Credit – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/A3PKZ
- New York Studios and Factories as Concert Halls http://ow.ly/A3PyU
- From Street Art to High Art – Video – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/A3Pit
- ‘Happy Birthday to You’ Copyright Challenged in Class Action http://ow.ly/A3OiX
- An Indian Sculptor With Monumental Ambition – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/A12qE
- A Memory Museum, Courtesy of a Critic-Curator – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/A10VH
- In Final Hours, Metropolitan Opera Extends Contract Deadlines for Unions – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/zPJc7
- 12 movies with pivotal lessons featuring lawyers http://ow.ly/zPISl
- Summit Knocks ‘Twilight’ Money Lawsuit Out of U.S. Court http://ow.ly/zNmzo
- Social media users could be charged for sharing Wikileaks story http://ow.ly/zLumw
- $1.8 Million for Ventura in Defamation Case – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/zKy0X
- Latest legal victory has LegalZoom poised for growth http://ow.ly/zHC09
- Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/zHAAK
- Hollywood Docket: Chubby Checker Settles Penis-Size App Lawsuit http://ow.ly/zEJgE
- Under Spain’s ‘Google Fee’ law, news aggregators must pay publishers http://ow.ly/zEH2O
- Large Crowds Spend Little at Comic-Con – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/zEC2p
- Netflix Bolsters Offerings in Documentary Genre – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/zEBZE
- Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are Any Indication – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/zEAMC
- Selfie-Love – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://ow.ly/zEAas