Scott Alan Burroughs

Epic invokes California’s anti-SLAPP statute to argue that its theft of 2 Milly’s dance was 'free speech.'

This account, populated with little more than stolen jokes and third-party visual gags, may soon be in for a legal reckoning.

Does the text of the Copyright Act require the Copyright Office to act on a registration application before the applicant can file suit?

The issue of whether intellectual property law offers protection for dance routines has pop-locked its way into courtrooms for decades.

Your favorite basic boots aren't basic when it comes to design patent law.

A rare look at a court’s application of the fair use defense in the context of an online photography case.

As it turns out, Uncle Sam has no rights under the Copyright Act, or very limited ones in any event.

The singer thought her defense was coming at the plaintiffs' claims like a 'dark horse,' but that didn't work out as planned.

When emerging technology, old statutory language, and the arts collide, we are bound to have to dig deep for the right result.

The film is now free as a bird and will be released for public consumption shortly.

The issue of cost recovery is nothing with which to trifle.

Does 'Stairway to Heaven' infringe upon another band's copyright? Let's get ready to rock...

Boies’s firm soldiers on and continues to rake in money by the barrel-load. Yet cracks in its once-burnished veneer are now visible to the naked eye.

Are you ready for some litigation on remand?

When dueling Comic-Cons are involved, the case doesn't turn out well for one party.

As Twitch and its broadcasters continue to take over the hearts and minds and screens of people the world over, these legal questions, and others, will continue to foment in ways that dowdy old Super Mario could never have imagined.

Music licenses, song remastering, and preemption, oh my!

Don those Mickey or Minnie ears, as this will be one to watch.

Does television series Empire infringe upon this writer's copyright in a treatment for a dramatic show 'featuring complex, black lead characters'?

Honey Badger don't give a sh*t about anything -- except trademark law.