Worldwide: Licensing & Syndication

The State of Colorado has taken a notable step in reshaping how creative businesses can be structured and financed with the introduction of the Colorado Artist Company Act (SB26 133).

Stadium naming rights and sponsorship agreements involve complex negotiations between venue operators and brand marketers, requiring careful attention to trademark licensing, exclusivity provisions, and long-term risk allocation. Legal practitioners must navigate intricate issues ranging from signage placement and digital visibility to player name-image-likeness rights and force majeure provisions.

When hiring creators to develop copyrighted works for your business, understanding the critical differences between assignments, licenses, and work-for-hire agreements can mean the difference between owning...

If you've been following the drama unfolding on the TV show "The Traitors" (U.S.), you're already familiar with the tartan-clad chaos, castle intrigue, and Alan Cumming's fashion statements.

Responding can be challenging because the mere submission of a complaint can trigger a strong emotional response, and the process presents a risk that action adversely affecting the licensee may be taken.

Soon, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted videos using a defined set of over 200 Disney characters, including costumes, props, vehicles, and environments. Likewise, ChatGPT will be able to generate still images from the same IP.

Gray-market goods, also known as parallel imports, are genuine products imported into the United States without the consent of the US trademark owner...

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently released a new final rule effectively rescinding almost all of a Biden-era interim...

Golden Eye Technologies LLC, a Harfang IP Investment Corp plaintiff, has sued Cisco (2:25-cv-00898) over the provision of a wide array of networking products and related "components, software, services, and processes"...