Reporting Copyright Infringement on Amazon & How to Remove Baseless Complaints against Sellers Hi, Amazon sellers. Today, I want to talk to you about copyright law. Copyright does not always have to be registered and in fact, it can be hard to register and that is why a lot of copyrights are not registered. We…
By Ben Sisario, NY Times – click here for the original article. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/arts/music/nicki-minaj-tracy-chapman-lawsuit.html For months, the entertainment industry’s legal calendar had an intriguing item on the horizon: a copyright trial pitting Tracy Chapman, the singer-songwriter, against the rapper Nicki Minaj. But that trial is not to be. Late last month, the parties agreed to a…
Protecting your Band’s Merchandise Sales from Counterfeiters / Unauthorized Sellers Copyright Infringement Actions There are two requirements for your work to be protected by a copyright heading: 1) Fixation, and 2) Originality. The work must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression that can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with…
As per eBay’s intellectual property policy on its website: “[eBay] take(s) protecting intellectual property rights and maintaining a safe environment for our buyers and sellers, very seriously. As such, certain types of items, such as bootleg recordings, are not allowed on eBay, and others, such as celebrity autographs, have a range of restrictions around how…
After Michael Jackson’s death in 2009, defendant Vintage Pop Media LLC created several websites where they displayed and sold copyright protected property of Michael Jackson. This included “key art” from Jackson’s movie “This Is It”, audio recordings of his song “Destiny”, material from an anniversary DVD of “Thriller”, and an image of Michael Jackson performing…
United States copyright law continues to evolve to this very day. While the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) is still considered the most important recent legal act as it pertains to online sellers, copyright laws have still changed in the 20 years since the signing of the DMCA. At this moment, we live…
Copyright law should be extremely important to an artist, especially as it pertains to issues relating to intellectual property. IP complaints are among the most common issue that Rosenbaum Famularo, P.C. sees, and artists encounter in the ecommerce world. While copyright can protect artists from having their original ideas and products stolen, it can also…
Memorandum of Law Issue: Whether an Amazon seller who lists their products against a pre-existing product detail page which violates a third party’s intellectual property rights is liable for infringement merely for adding products to the listing without knowledge of the infringement. Brief Answer: Although there is a defense called “innocent infringement” pursuant to…
