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Oz the Great and Copyrightable


Oz the Great and Copyrightable Disney’s newest fantasy-adventure, Oz the Great and Powerful, was a box office hit last weekend. Filmgoers managed to overlook the absence of certain well-known elements of the Wizard of Oz, most notably Dorothy Gale and her ruby slippers. Was this just because the new Oz movie is a prequel to the beloved classic? Or does the answer require a journey into the Haunted Forest of intellectual property law?

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Product Placement Fight over Flight


Product Placement Fight over Flight If you’ve seen the movie “Flight,” you were probably able to recognize some of the bottles of alcohol that Denzel Washington’s character was drinking. Companies will often pay to have their product placed in a movie or TV show, or, at the very least, allow the use of their product in media outlets because they value the free advertising. However, Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, and William Grant & Sons, the distributors of Stolichnaya in the United States, are unhappy with the use of their products in “Flight.”

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Myspace Relaunches, Encounters Copyright Issue


Myspace Relaunches, Encounters Copyright Issue Remember MySpace? Well, it’s back – this time, as Myspace. Maybe the newly private, scaled-down business couldn’t afford the capital “S.” The site relaunched last week and immediately ran into a copyright infringement issue.

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Alicia Keys Sued for Copyright Infringement


Alicia Keys Sued for Copyright Infringement Alicia Keys and her record company, Sony Music Entertainment, are being sued for copyright infringement by the writer of the song “Hey There Lonely Girl” over a simple lyric phrase. Alicia Keys’ latest single, “Girl On Fire,” from her album, Girl on Fire, may not sound much like Earl Shuman and Leon Carr’s “Hey There Lonely Girl.” (You can listen to them here: “Girl on Fire” and here: “Hey There Lonely Girl“). Given the significance differences between the recordings, Mr. Shurman’s concern is limited to the following phrase from “Girl On Fire”: “Nobody knows…

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