Welcome to our bi-weekly 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: Hollywood & Wonder Women; book theft in Naples; Paramount Pictures & profit shift; Walking Dead creator sues AMC; EMI keeps rights to Christmas Classic; Copyrights, photographs & Instagram; Weinsteins sue over Hobbit sequels profits; Hells Angels sue for trademark violations; and more.
Happy Holidays! This is the last blog for 2013. See you in 2014!
As a little treat check out the New York Times Happy Holidays Special Section – it has tons of ideas for merriment and celebration. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/happy-holidays-2/?_r=0
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!
- Waiting for Wonder Woman – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/s0XcM
- A Wordnado of Words in 2013 – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/s0XaR
- Book Theft in Italy, With a Hint of Politics – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/s0VUB
- Bringing Giorgio Vasari’s ‘The Last Supper’ Back to Life – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/s0VPW
- Strong Profit Margin at Paramount Pictures Underlines a Hollywood Shift – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/s0VLg
- ’Walking Dead’ Show Creator Frank Darabont Sues AMC | KTLA 5 http://ow.ly/rX9la
- Festival of Gkids Films at IFC Center – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rWYbA
- Young Souls Portray the Wit of ‘Hamlet,’ With Brevity – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rWY4m
- Music Company EMI Keeps Rights to Christmas Classic http://ow.ly/rUJSw
- Interesting – The Algorithms of Our Lives – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://ow.ly/rUGTu
- Textbook Publishers Settle Suit Against Boundless, Digital Start-Up Company – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education…
- Copyright in Photographs vis-a-vis Social Networking Sites – SpicyIP – MediaNama http://ow.ly/rR5PM
- Weinsteins in Deal to Reunite With Miramax – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rQ7P6
- Peter O’Toole, Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Is Dead at 81 – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rNUEE
- A Stream of Music, Not Revenue – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rMwQr
- A Formula for Happiness – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rMvUt
- Weinsteins File Lawsuit Against Time Warner Over ‘Hobbit’ Sequels Profits http://ow.ly/rGp2f
- Specialized facing social media storm after ‘Roubaix’ lawsuit threat | Bicycle Business | BikeBiz http://ow.ly/rDTXE
- Kyle and Jackie O’s social media trademark lessons: Who owns what? http://ow.ly/rDTNa
- SAN FRANCISCO: Legal battle over Nazi-seized masterpiece revived | Entertainment | http://FresnoBee.com http://ow.ly/rDSSs
- ‘Come Together – Surviving Sandy’ Samples 300 Artists – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/ryXKj
- Who knew? Musicals Couldn’t Be Hotter Off Broadway (by 7,000 Miles) – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/ryXz7
- Legal matters – Trademark ownership and social media: Who owns what? http://ow.ly/rwU9d
- Christie’s Reveals Detroit Art Appraisal – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rtvhN
- Three Rockwell Classics Bring Nearly $57.8 Million – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rtvfn
- Jennifer Grout Sings Umm Kulthum Hits on ‘Arabs Got Talent’ – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rtuXK
- Just thought this was cool and wanted to share: Hands-On Bavarian Count Presides Over a Pencil-Making Empire – http://NYTimes.com …
- 2013 What’s Hot and What’s Not in the Legal Profession – Attorney at Work – Attorney at Work http://ow.ly/roBl8
- Turning to Public to Back Investigative Journalism – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rmxXb
- Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Mirrored Room’ at David Zwirner Gallery – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rmwNP
- For Fervent Fans of the Dutch Masters, ‘It’s a Dream Come True’ – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkIlH
- Disney’s ‘Frozen,’ a Makeover of ‘The Snow Queen’ – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkI1R
- Salinger Stories ‘Leaked’ Online – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkI05
- Despite Outlaw Image, Hells Angels Sue Often – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkHXt
- Paul Leiter, Photographer Who Captured New York’s Palette, Dies at 89 – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkHyh
- Arnon Grunberg Is Writing While Connected to Electrodes – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkHso
- Unraveling Huge Thefts From Girolamini Library in Naples – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkHri
- Banning the Negative Book Review – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkHnC
- Congress Takes on Abusive Patent Suits – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkH32
- Paul Walker, 40, ‘Fast & Furious’ Star, Dies in Car Crash – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkH1z
- Lights, Camera and, for the First Time, Dialogue – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkGZR
- NBC Will Air ‘The Sound of Music’ Live on Dec. 5 – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/rkGXc
- ‘Leave of Absence’ for Lara Logan After Flawed Benghazi Report – http://NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/req79
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- DG Esq’s Bi-Weekly Recap: Stories of IP & Entertainment Law 11/25/13 http://ow.ly/raHo2