I’ve written before about the legal battle between the bands Led Zeppelin and Spirit. Randy Wolf of Spirit wrote a song called “Taurus” and his estate”s representative alleged that “Stairway to Heaven” infringed on the copyright of that song. According to Wolf, the opening notes of “Stairway to Heaven” were substantially similar to the opening notes of…
Sometimes patience is a virtue. I have a client who owns an apartment, on the next-to-top floor of a small building. Her upstairs neighbor has a penthouse — and a greenhouse. One day, the greenhouse started to leak. The client complained to the upstairs neighbor and nothing was done to improve the situation, so we…
I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid. That’s one of the reasons Kaufman v. Warner Brothers caught my attention (the other sharing the correct spelling of the plaintiff’s surname — no relation!). This was a case that did not go well for the plaintiff — and frankly was a bit of a stretch…