Sony BMG  v. Tenenbaum

Here is the audio of the nine minute podcast I recently did for Suffolk University Law School discussing the district court’s decision in Sony BMG v. Tanenbaum and its impact on copyright enforcement if not overturned on appeal. If for some reason you can’t listen to it here, Legal Talk Network also posted …

Long-arm statutes were designed to extend personal jurisdiction outside of state lines. But no doubt the legislators who enacted these statutes never dreamed that the long arm they were creating might stretch around the  world thanks to the internet.

P enguin v. American Buddha is the latest case to shape the boundaries of the long-arm statute in …

The Second Circuit in Chloé v. Queen Bee expanded long-arm jurisdiction over Internet counterfeiters in trademark infringement cases. See my earlier post about Chloé here. But how far did the court stretch the long-arm statute?  As I explain below, Chloé creates puzzling questions that need clarification about the limits of personal jurisdiction in counterfeit cases.

At a TeleConference …

Andrew will moderate a one-hour teleconference sponsored by Law Seminars International next Wednesday October 6 at 1 pm NY time discussing the recent 2d Circuit case of Chloé v. Queen Bee and its impact on  trademark infringement actions against Internet counterfeiters. Here is the link to the program brochure. The panelists are Joan K. Archer, Esq.…

The common law doctrines of contributory infringement and vicarious liability are a staple of copyright infringement law. But the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) has significantly reshaped these doctrines.

Naomi Jane Gray, Esq., in her remarks to the Copyright Subcommittee of the Intellectual Property Litigation Committee of the ABA on September 28, 2010,  clearly charted the changes …