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Amanda Marie

Robertson joins suit vs. NCAA - Yahoo! Sports - 0 views

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lawsuit personality rights NCAA basketball college

shared by Amanda Marie on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The new complaint (750k PDF), filed in the United States District Court in San Francisco and obtained by Yahoo! Sports, argues that, “Mr. Robertson’s collegiate image continues to be licensed without his consent to this day … and sold for profit without approval by Mr. Robertson, and without any opportunity for him to participate in the licensing opportunity generated by the use and sale of his own collegiate image.”
  • The NCAA has argued they maintain the rights to a players’ likeness forever in legal briefings. It believes it, its marketing arm – Collegiate Licensing Company – and partner companies Thought Equity Motion and Collegiate Images, LLC are compliant with the law. The organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the additional complaints, although it traditionally rejects comment until it has time to review legal documents.
  • At stake is a share of the estimated $4 billion market for collegiate licensed merchandise, a business that has exploded over the last 15 years.
  • Amanda Marie on 28 Jan 11
     
    Personality rights, a subset of intellectual property/copyright, is a major issue among players in the NCAA.  
Rory Fewer

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Hit With Dumbest Antitrust Lawsuit Ever - 0 views

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shared by Rory Fewer on 04 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Malika T on 04 Apr 11
     
    Wow. It really is fascinating how people attempt to manipulate facts for personal gain through legal action. Now good business sense is collusion? My personal favorite comment on the article: "Good luck to him, he's 3 ignorant judges and 15 years in lawsuits away from winning"
Emily Albulescu

Britney Spears' 'Hold It Against Me' Likely Safe From Copyright Case - 1 views

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shared by Emily Albulescu on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Emily Albulescu on 26 Jan 11
     
    The Country music duo the "Bellamy Brothers" are upset over Britney song title's resemblance to their 1979 hit but it seem they will not be suing the popstar.
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  • Andrea R. on 26 Jan 11
     
    I'm surprised that copyright law doesn't apply to song titles.
  • Malika T on 31 Jan 11
     
    I'm actually surprised that the Bellamy Brothers would pursue legal action against her, because song titles are inevitably recycled or given without knowledge of their prior use. I have FIVE different songs called "Heartbreaker" in my iTunes library (Will.i.am, Led Zeppelin, Mariah Carey, MSTRKRFT, Pat Benatar) and none of them are covers. This seems like a classic example of an attempt at manipulating copyright laws for personal gain as opposed to protection of intellectual property.
  • anonymous on 31 Jan 11
     
    I do not think that the copyright law should be applied to song titles because the title is merely a representation of the song. The title is only a small part of the song that is created and title is not a song that has melody in it. If more copyright restrictions apply to song titles, it would eventually end up holding the artists back from choosing the desired and preferable representation of the song. The artists would have to struggle to find new words or phrases as new songs are released everyday.
  • Amanda Marie on 03 Feb 11
     
    I know that the Bellamy Brothers specifically mention the title, but I think they would have a much stronger case on the basis of "fixing" the double entendre within the song: the BB's lyrics are "If I said you had a beautiful body / would you hold it against me" vs. Britney's "If I said I want your body now / would you hold it against me." That's pretty startlingly similar, and even if you can't copyright ideas, you can copyright the expression of those ideas... and there's enough overlap between the two to be persuasive.
  • Rory Fewer on 06 Feb 11
     
    Now that I know copying a song title doesn't count as copyright infringement, I wonder what percentage of a songs lyrics must be exactly the same as another song in order for that to count as copyright infringement. And even if the lyrics happen to be the same, can an artist still avoid a lawsuit if his or her melodic line/ chordal progression/ instrumentation is different enough to make the song "original"? I'm guessing that its a case-by-case thing...
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