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Attorney Steve® - Intellectual Property Lawyer - "Deep Fake" Image Licensing Introduction Every person has a legal right to their own name, image and likeness.  This is known as the right of publicity.  Now, with the advent and growth of artificial intelligence ("AI"), you have a legal right ...

Attorney Steve® BitTorrent Copyright Defense Lawyer discusses whether a pornographic film can be protected under the United States Copyright Law?    

Attorney Steve® Copyright Watchdog® - Comcast sued for activity of torrent downloaders   Introduction The world on online Torrent infringement is heating up once again. Following similar lawsuits against Verizon and AT&T, Comcast is now being sued for alleged copyright law violations.  Here is...

Attorney Steve® Copyright Law Essentials - Drone Footage!

Attorney Steve® Software Audit Essentials - Tips to hire the right software defense law firm!   Introduction When you receive the dreaded "love letter" from one of the companies below, your first thought might be to ignore it, shred it, or make a paper airplane.  However, this approach will ...

Attorney Steve® Crypto and NFT Law Updates:  Coinbase case shows why it's important to GET YOUR COINS, TOKENS AND DIGITAL ASSETS off the exchanges!!!

Attorney Steve® Copyright Law Essentials - Background Music     Introduction With the massive growth of online video (Instragram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and others), many people are posting videos for both personal and commercial (business) reasons.  Many videos will have music playing i...

Attorney Steve® Litigation Updates - The Jeffrey Antonelli so-called "nationwide" BitTorrent Defense firm is at issue following being labelled a reverse domain name hijacker for trying to abscond with my TorrentDefenders.com domain name (frankly, because he had a lousy domain name and wanted some...

Attorney Steve® Software License Compliance Essentials - Is non-commercial use of software protected by the copyright fair use defense? Issue Is it copyright infringement in the 9th circuit if a company uses unlicensed copyrighted software programs for non-commercial usage? Facts An engin...

Attorney Steve® Social Media Lawyer Insights - California passes hefty law to deter and punish "Cyberflashers" VIDEO:  Click to watch our video on the new California Law.  Make sure to SUBSCRIBE to join over 37,000 Subscribers to our popular legal YouTube channel Introduction A cyberflasher ...

Autodesk products used during this term.  As stated in our correspondence, all management including family members, employees such as designers, etc. and third parties, in the US and internationally are to be reviewed.

Attorney Steve Copyright Law Essentials - Damages following a default judgment Televideo Sys., Inc. v. Heidenthal, 826 F.2d 915, 917-18 (9th Circuit 1987) Rule 55 gives the court considerable leeway as to what it may require as a prerequisite to the entry of a default judgment. "The general...

A list of all the devices in the residence (with the dates that they or the WiFi were password-protected or not); The make/model/serial number for the router (a picture with the serial number will probably suffice); A list of all of the individuals including subscriber/age/ occupation/ duration...

Attorney Steve® Copyright Law Essentials - Damages for Infringement of Copyright and Trademark INTRODUCTION Unauthorized duplication of computer software products and use of unlicensed computer software products constitute copyright infringement.  Using trademarks, logos, slogans, and other...

Attorney Steve Strike 3 Defense Updates - If your IP is on this list, call us for a free consultation.  We are the #1 copyright defense law firm in the United States (per Unicourt.com) in terms of the number of federal litigation cases handled (over 300+ copyright litigation cases handled).   S...

Attorney Steve® NFT Law Essentials - Parody, Satire from competing brands (note, this is NOT a copyright infringement case, interstingly). Introduction I have reviewed the lawsuit.  Here is my take, let me know if you would like me to elaborate or expand on any of these responses: ...

Attorney Steve® Copyright Law Essentials - Defenses to Infringement - Independent Creation.  This can apply to Etsy art, NFTs, Logos, Music, Jewelry, Architect plans, Fabric design, and all other kinds of creative copyrighted works   Introduction As a copyright defense lawyers, we are often ...

How can you get rich off copyright licensing? This is something I have always wondered about. There are a few ways to get rich off copyright licensing. One way is to become a copyright lawyer. Copyright lawyers make a lot of money by helping people protect their copyrights. Another way to make m...

Attorney Steve® Litigation Essentials - Settlement Terms The Non-Disparagement Clause Non-Disparagement. Settling Party agrees to take no action that is intended to or would reasonably be expected to harm ABC Software or any of its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, or any of their of...

Attorney Steve® Software Audit Updates According to IT Asset Management the following publishers have maintained a software audit presence ACTIVESTATE QUEST CAPAX CISCO CITRIX COREL DASSAULT (Solidworks) BMC DOCUSIGN INFOR INFORMATICA MICROSTRATEGY SAP PEGASYSTEMS PITNEY BOWES...

Attorney Steve® Strike 3 BitTorrent Defense Case Law - Cobbler Nevada Case Law in 9th Circuit Introduction When you are served with a subpoena in regard to an alleged file-sahring case (ex. Malibu Media or S3 Holdings) in the 9th Circuit, the Plaintiff will have one hurdle to get over calle...

Attorney Steve® Copyright Law Essentials - The innocent infringement defense - [case law illustrating the point] Introduction Since 2004 our law firm has been handling a bulk of the copyright infringement cases in California, from the Northern District of California, Central District, Easte...

Attorney Steve® Photo Infringement Essentials - Statute of Limitations where expert image detectors are involved as Plaintiff Introduction We are currently dealing with a lawsuit from a Plaintiff photographer that also has his own "photo infringement detection company."  In other words, he ...

Attorney Steve® Copyright Infringement Essentials - OpenSea BFT Copyright Legal Issues   Introduction I just purchased an NFT on OpenSea paying $75.00 in ETH using my Metamask wallet.  It was a quick and seamless tranaction.  Howver, like the law geek that I am, I decided to take a peak at the...

Attorney Steve® Copyright Fair Use Lawyer - Transformative explained Here are some legal cases for you to review A “transformative” use is “a copying use that adds something new and important.” See Google, 141 S. Ct. at 1203 (quoting Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569, 579 (1994...