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... the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles entered a judgment for Novelty Textile, Inc. against defendants Hot Shot HK, LLC doing business as “Brat Star” and The Wet Seal, Inc. The court found both defendants liable for “the deliberate and willful copyright infringement” of three copyright designs owned by Novelty. Novelty Textile Inc v. The Wet Seal Inc et al, California Central District Court, Case No. 2:13-cv-05527. An example of one of such designs as well as an allegedly infringing garment ...

... Well-known French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), one of the three largest, and Getty Images, Inc., a U.S. stock photo agency, learned it a hard way. The New York jury found on November 2013 that AFP and Getty Images knowingly violated the U.S. Copyright Act when they used photos of Daniel Morel, a professional free-lance photographer. Mr. Morel took photographs of the immediate aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, and his photographs became instantly iconic. The ...

... webpage. More like “zh*pa” would say the fans of free music, movies and television shows. Zh*pa sounds like SOPA or The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was a controversial US bill to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods, the bill which did not make it into law. For non-Russian readers, “zh*pa,” which also means a part of a human anatomy, can be loosely translated as an apocalypse or effectively an ...

US consumers win, consumers in less developed countries loose. Retailers win, copyright and luxury brand owners loose. This summarizes the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 19, 2013 ruling that the Copyright Act’s first-sale doctrine extends to products made and copyright works sold outside the U.S. Last Tuesday,...