Q&A Google v. Oracle
Rick: Nancy, Welcome to 2020. It’s time for another edition of DMLA Q&A or IP for Dummies – like me. Ready? Nancy: Fire away. Rick: Let’s talk about Google v. Oracle. When I think about tech, I think patents. Why are we discussing copyright and not patents in Google v. Oracle? Nancy: Patents deal with […]
Artist v. Artist
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith Et. Al. Fair Use broadens in Artist Works A recent court decision in the Second Circuit solidified the expanding and evolving scope of fair use in appropriation art, showing that obtaining a license to use other copyrighted works as artistic inspiration is not […]
Case Act Takes Big Step Forward
June 24, 2019 — DMLA board member Rick Gell, spoke briefly with Nancy Wolff, DMLA’s Senior Legal Counsel, who has been in the trenches fighting for the CASE Act on behalf of our content licensing community. The Case Act just took a big step in Congress. Nancy, briefly, what happened last week? The Case Act […]
DMLA SUPPORT STILL NEEDED FOR CASE ACT
Dear Members: We have had great response from the House for the CASE Act and we now have 31 co-sponsors for H.R. 2426! Â The letter writing and meetings with representatives is working, but we can’t stop now. Â We still need efforts from all of you to get the support for the bill up to triple […]
DMLA Needs Member Support for CASE Act
Dear Members: May 2, 2019 was a big day for copyright advocacy in Washington D.C. as two companion bills (H.R. 2426 and S. 1273 ) were introduced in both the House and the Senate creating an alternative forum for hearing copyright infringement cases of relatively lesser value entitled the Copyright Alternative in Small Claims Enforcement […]
VISUAL ARTS GROUPS APPLAUD RELEASE OF NEW SMALL CLAIMS LEGISLATION
May 1, 2019 – A coalition of visual artists, representing hundreds of thousands of mom-and-pop creators in every state across the country is praising U.S. House and Senate sponsors for taking steps to correct a century-old inequity in copyright law. The legislation—introduced today by Congressmen Jeffries, Collins as well as Senators Kennedy, Tillis, Durbin […]
Fourth Circuit Rules in Favor of Stock Photographer Russell Brammer
In October 2018 DMLA filed an amicus brief in support of photographer Russell Brammer’s appeal to the Fourth District over a questionable Virginia district court decision, which held that production company’s use of his stock photo of a Washington, D.C. neighborhood on a website promoting a film festival was fair use. Our focus was on […]
Fourth Circuit Rules in Favor of Stock Photographer, Overturning Questionable Fair Use Decision (Brammer v. Violent Hues Productions, LLC(4th Cir. 2019))
By Sara Gates and Nancy Wolff CDAS The rights of a stock photographer were recently vindicated when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned a questionable Virginia district court decision, which held that a production company’s use of a stock photo of a Washington, D.C. neighborhood on a website promoting a film […]
DMLA Legal Update
by Nancy Wolff, DMLA Legal Counsel On April 8, 2019 I participated in a Copyright Office roundtable on behalf of DMLA  regarding the Copyright Office’s preparation of a Section 512 report, which relates to immunity Internet Service Providers may be entitled to under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act if they comply with various provisions. The […]
Ninth Circuit Addresses Outstanding Copyright Issues in VHT, Inc v Zillow Group
The Ninth Circuit recently addressed a number of outstanding copyright issues between Zillow, the popular apartment hunting website, and VHT a provider of real estate photographers’ photos, and VHT, although it left the question of whether database registrations offer statutory damages for each image, or if all the images in one application are limited to […]