Last week a New York District court Judge dismissed all but one claim in the suit against Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld. In 2008, Missy Chase Lapine claimed that Jessica Seinfeld’s Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food infringed the Copyrights and Trademark[s] of her The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding [...]

Stan Lee approves of the recent Disney-Marvel deal as a major coup. From MSNBC. YouTube seeks to license major movies for streaming video rental via internet: From AP. The history of corporate art collections and their role in future exhibitions. From The New York Times.

After an order to remove it from US servers downed the site for hours, the Pirate Bay has found itself a new offshore residence. From the site’s recent blog post on the matter, Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the [...]

Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Inc., a San Francisco art dealer, was indicted Thursday on charges of wire and mail fraud for shipping fake Joan Miró prints. Iannetti is accused of knowingly selling seven fake Miró prints in amounts ranging from $3,600 to $17,902 from 2005 to 2008. But federal prosecutors said the alleged scheme may [...]

Last year, Woody Allen sued American Apparel, seeking $10 Million in damages for the company’s unauthorized use of his image in an Advertising Campaign. Allen claimed that two billboards, featuring a still frame from the movie Annie Hall stating “the High Rabbi” in Yiddish, “calculatingly took my name, my likeness, and image and used them [...]

Erich Specht, a software developer and Internet Service Provider from the Village of Palatine, Illinois has filed a suit alleging Trademark Infringement against Google and 47 other international corporations. Filed on April 28 in an Illinois District Court, Specht contends that Google, “stole first and asked questions later.” More here. A quick search of the [...]

What started as a gesture by Los Angeles based graphic designer Shepard Fairey to show his support for a Presidential candidate has turned in to a street born viral marketing campaign for Democratic Nominee Barack Obama. It seems that Obama’s proposed policy for the future of the Arts has inspired a fervor at the grassroots [...]