The Copyright Office has issued a series of interim rules setting forth the procedures for registering secure tests. The rules were modified in 2020 to accommodate the unique challenges faced by the Office during the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2023, the Office released post-pandemic interim rules a copy of which can be found here: https://spelusolawoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/circ64.pdf.
Compliance with the GDPR by US companies doing business in the EU has become a sore point between the parties, the most recent salvo being invalidation of the Privacy Shield framework by the European Court of Justice. In March 2022, the European Commission and the US reached an agreement in principle for a Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. On July 10, […]
The principal purpose of a trademark is to identify the source of a good or a service. Holders of marks registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office under the Lanham Act (also referred to as the Trademark Act of 1946) also acquire certain federal rights and protections. Chief among them are the exclusive right to use the mark in […]
The US Supreme Court recently decided Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith et al. The case involved an orange silkscreen portrait of the musician Prince. “Orange Prince” was created by pop artist Andy Warhol and was derived from a copyrighted photograph taken in 1981 by Lynn Goldsmith. Orange Prince is one of 16 works which Warhol […]