NFT enthusiasts envision a fictional world of fan-owned creative properties and character crossovers. Just don't forget about real world copyright law.
On today's episode of "The Town" podcast, I joined Puck News co-founder and former Hollywood Reporter Editorial Director Matt Belloni to discuss copyright termination, an area of ever-increasing importance to the movie business.
Over the past quarter-century, transformative use has become shorthand for fair use itself. The Warhol case gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to provide balance and flexibility to the doctrine.
Just days after Dua Lipa was sued by a Florida reggae band, "Levitating" is the target of a second copyright infringement lawsuit, this time over the songs "Wiggle and Giggle All Night" and "Don Diablo."
Nearly a year after a screenwriter's lawsuit over Disney's "Muppet Babies" reboot was dismissed, the trustee of Jeffrey Scott's bankruptcy estate has filed a new complaint alleging copyright infringement in a production bible and scripts from the original series.
As a new lawsuit involving the popular comic book and animated series "Invincible" shows, the failure to properly document the copyright status of a jointly-created work at the beginning can lead to messy consequences later.