A number of recent copyright cases have hinged on intangible aspects of the work in question. In most cases, the court relies on expert witnesses to provide their opinions about things like substantial similarity or copying. But not in this case. This practice was endorsed recently by the Ninth Circuit in Hall v. Swift, which we wrote about here,…
An intellectual property attorney in New Jersey performed an unlicensed concert this weekend — and that turned out to be the least of his worries. Complete with two guitars, an amp, and a microphone, the rock n’ roll barrister set himself up on his front porch for a series of Pink Floyd covers. He supposedly…