Why Hollywood Studios Care About the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens Logo (The Hollywood Reporter)
The MPAA sided with the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens in defending limits to a copyright holder’s authority to object to use of protected material, saying that if the artist suing the league is victorious at an appeals court, it could raise problems for movies containing logos, signs and other copyrighted works.
Broadcasters File Aereo Appeal, Warn of ‘Havoc’ and ‘Massive Disruption’ to TV Industry (paidContent)
Fox and other broadcasters are asking a New York appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow Aereo to retransmit over-the-air TV, claiming the decision “threatens to cause massive disruption to the television industry” and “will wreak commercial havoc.”
Supreme Court Rules Web Browsing Does Not Infringe Newspapers’ Copyright (The Guardian)
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that readers who open articles via a website link are not breaking copyright laws, but also decided that the copyright issues surrounding web browsing are so important that it referred the case to the European Court of Justice to ensure that the ruling applies uniformly across the EU.
Keith Kupferschmid is General Counsel and SVP, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement at SIIA.