Vondran Legal® - Tatte Coffee Burn in Washington D.C. - and Zurich Insurance tough guys. What's wrong with our system of justice in America By Attorney Steve Vondran, civil litigation attorney. The following describes my personal experience, observations, allegations, and opinions concerning a...
Vondran Legal® - AI Copyright Registration, DMCA Counter-Notices, and the Human Authorship Test What Happens When Someone Copies Your AI-Generated Artwork? Imagine this increasingly common situation. You create an image using an artificial intelligence platform such as Midjourney, DALL-E, Stab...
Vondran Legal® - Schedule "A" lawsuit updates! Northern District of Illinois Finds Mass Joinder and Evidence of Irreparable Harm Insufficient Case: Collectanea J. Limited v. Schedule A DefendantsCourt: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of IllinoisKey Issues: Schedule A litigation, t...
Can an Infringer “Re-Commence” Copyright Infringement After Registration? The Substantial-Gap Question Left Open by the Fifth Circuit Copyright lawyers know the basic rule: register early. Under Section 412 of the Copyright Act, a copyright owner can lose access to statutory damages and attorne...
Vondran Legalr Copyirght Infringement Updates: The Fifth Circuit's Important Copyright Ruling in Southern Credentialing Support Services v. Hammond Surgical Hospital Copyright owners sometimes assume that registering a copyright after discovering infringement will at least allow them to recover...
Vondran Legal® - Case Brief: Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc. Citation: Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc., 337 F. Supp. 2d 1195 (N.D. Cal. 2004)Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaJudge: Jeremy FogelDate: September 30, 2004Procedural posture: Cross-motions f...
Vondran Legal® Photo Infringement Insights - Paid photos and your rights to post! A photograph shows your face. You paid for the photo shoot. The photographer sent you the digital file. Surely, you can post it anywhere you want—right? Not necessarily. One of the most misunderstood principles o...
Vondran Legal® - SESAC Music Licensing for Businesses: A Practical Guide to Commercial Music Licensing Businesses that play music for customers can encounter an issue they may not have anticipated: public-performance licensing. Restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotels, fitness centers, retail stor...
Vondran Legal® IPTV Defense Insights - Dish-Nagrastar-Sling possible discovery What Happens When DISH Accuses a Seller of Providing Unauthorized Access to DISH or Sling Programming? DISH Network, Sling TV, and their anti-piracy partner NagraStar regularly investigate businesses and individua...
Vondran Legal® Trademark College® Trademark Attorney Explains Why Corporate Structure Can Put Your Brand at Risk By Vondran Legal® | Nationwide Trademark and Intellectual Property Counsel Introduction Many businesses spend years—and sometimes millions of dollars—building valuable brand reco...
Vondran Legal - Slay the Bar! Discovery Tools 101 The Main Discovery Tools InterrogatoriesWritten questions answered under oath. Great for identifying witnesses, defenses, damages, factual contentions, and basic case information. Requests for Production (RFPs)Requests for documents and ...
FROM BTS TO MADONNA TO ARIANA GRANDE, MUSIC LEAKS CAN HAVE SERIOUS LEGAL CONSEQUENCES For artists, releasing a new song or album is rarely a spontaneous event; Writing, recording, producing, marketing, and planning can take months or years. Labels coordinate promotional campaigns, streaming plat...
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PROTECTING YOUR LEGAL CLAIM BEFORE IMPORTANT EVIDENCE DISAPPEARS Some of the most important work in a lawsuit occurs long before a complaint is ever filed. One of the biggest mistakes individuals and businesses make is failing to preserve evidence while they are still eval...
THE GOOGLE GEMINI LAWSUIT MAY CHANGE HOW COPYRIGHT LICENSES ARE WRITTEN Artificial intelligence has already transformed the way businesses create content, analyze information, and develop new products. Every week seems to bring another lawsuit involving AI, copyright, or intellectual propert...
DOES FENDER OWN THE STRATOCASTER DESIGN? INSIDE A LEGAL FEUD DIVIDING THE GLOBAL GUITAR BUSINESS The Fender Stratocaster is more than simply a guitar. Since its introduction in 1954, it has become one of the most recognizable product designs in the world. From Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to...
Copyright Law for Video Game Developers - Mistakes to Avoid! A Practical Copyright Guide for Game Developers, Publishers, Artists, and Producers A modern video game may contain millions of lines of code, character designs, cinematic sequences, music, sound effects, dialogue, maps, textures, ani...
Vondran Legal® IP Law For Video Game Companies How Game Developers Can Protect Game Titles, Characters, Logos, Branding, and Trade Dress Creating a successful video game requires far more than writing code. Developers spend years building recognizable worlds, naming characters, designing interf...
The Most Important Legal Agreements Every Video Game Developer Should Understand A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Studio, Your Intellectual Property, and Your Business The video game industry is one of the most creative and innovative sectors in the world. Whether you are an independent dev...
Vondran Legal® AI Music Law Firm: What Every Musician, Producer, Record Label, and Entertainment Lawyer Needs to Know By Attorney Steve® | Vondran Legal® Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the music business. What started as experimental software capable of generating melodies ha...
What Is WIPO's AI Infrastructure Interchange? The World Intellectual Property Organization, known as WIPO, recently launched the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange, or AIII. It is pronounced “A-triple-I.” AIII is a global effort to bring together creators, copyright owners, tech...
The growing importance of identifying AI-generated content Artificial intelligence has made it possible to generate convincing music, photographs, illustrations, videos, written material, computer code, and even replicas of a person's voice or likeness within seconds. These technologies offer si...
Vondran Legal® California Music Lawyer: Where to Find Music Rights for Sale and How to Conduct Due Diligence Buying and selling music catalogs has become a significant part of the modern entertainment industry. Major publishers, record labels, investment funds, private equity firms, family offic...
Vondran Legal® - IP and AI Voice Misappropriation Update on Google Case. Case: Greene v. Google LLC and Alphabet Inc., No. 3:26-cv-01773-CRBCourt: United States District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaJudge: Hon. Charles R. BreyerDecision: July 23, 2026Result: Plaintiff's motion to...
WHAT YOU DO IN THE FIRST 24–48 HOURS CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE Receiving a demand letter can be unsettling. Whether it arrives by certified mail, email, or through your attorney, your first reaction may be panic, anger, or confusion. Many people immediately assume they are about to be sued, wh...
AI Copyright Litigation Enters a New Phase: Apple's "Access vs. Use" Defense Could Reshape Generative AI Law By Attorney Steve® | Vondran Legal® The first wave of artificial intelligence copyright litigation focused on a relatively straightforward question: Can AI companies lawfully train thei...
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