Trademark and Copyright Infringement: One Lawyer's On the Job

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Trademark and Copyright Infringement

One Lawyer’s On the Job Training

By: Howard E. King, Esq. King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner

Los Angeles, California 90067

I. My Background and The Good Fortune of Meeting Mel Nimmer

II. From Swap Meets to Server Farms and Cloud Computing – Copyright Practice Accelerated by the Internet

A. Warp speed dissemination of pirated materials

B. Immediate notice of infringements

C. The ultimate business generation tool, websites devoted to tattling on samplers: www.whosampled.com

III. Napster Crystallizes A New World Order

A. Background of involvement with the Category 5 hurricane created by Napster

1. RIAA complaint meanders in background

2. Metallica/Dr. Dre awake the media (“I Disappear”; “2001”)

3. Lessons learned

(a) DMCA Notices come in multiple forms

(b) You can’t rent an armored car

(c) You can’t get rich from a soiled handkerchief (at least pre-TMZ)

(d) Universities balance economics and politics, with a dash of law

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B. Warnings to All; Involvement of None

1. Other musicians

2. Television and movies

C. From the studio to Time magazine to Congress

D. Injunction Unsurprising - Fonovisa Swap Meet in Cyberspace

1. Fonovisa, Inc. v. Cherry Auction, Inc.,76 F.3d 259 (9th Cir. 1996)

E. Exhibits

1. Metallica v. Napster complaint

2. A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001)

IV. Can the Pornographers Save Copyright Owners While Television and Movie Producers Fiddle?

A. Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa International Association

1. Exhibit

(a) Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa International Association, 494 F.3d 788 (9th cir. 2007)

V. The Internet Stimulates the Copyright Litigation Business

A. Satriani v. Coldplay

1. A YouTube Phenomenon

2. Exhibits

(a) Joe Satriani v. Christopher Martin, et al. complaint

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VI. Copyrights in an Election Year

A. Joe Walsh v. Joe Walsh

B. Don Henley v. Chuck Devore

C. Exhibits

1. Dan Henley Cease and Desist

2. Joe Walsh (the musician) Cease and Desist

3. Joe Walsh (the candidate) response

4. District Court Order in Henley case

VII. Trademark Issues Near and Dear

A. Rolling Stone enters into the merchandise business

B. Wolfgang’s Vault; is possession 9/10th of the law?

C. Exhibits

1. F.E.A. Merchandising v. Wenner Media complaint

2. Montana v. San Jose Mercury News, Inc. 24 Cal.App.4th 490 (1995)

D. THX

VIII. Particular Challenges of Litigating Copyright Cases

A. Handicaps of a famous musician with music that might not be jury-friendly

1. “Your Honor, is it really, really necessary for these jurors to listen to the song?”

2. What instruction can you give a juror with lyrics like these?

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3. Skewed damages exposure in music copyright cases

(a) Typical damage analysis

4. Exhibits

(a) Lyrics

(b) Voir Dire

5. Influence of the internet on the ultimate result

B. Could Michael Jackson have ever won a civil case?

C. Is TMZ the new mainstream medium?

1. Sue them and use them

D. Robert Murdoch hails the death of the “fair use defense” unless Fox is the “fair user”

E. Exhibits

1. F. Marc Schaffel Productions, LLC v. Fox News complaint

F. Axl Rose v. The World

1. “Ask Axl” becomes another internet tool for lawyers

IX. If I Haven’t Run Out of Time

A. Andre Young pka Dr. Dre. v. Wideawake Death Row Entertainment LLC

1. Exhibit

(a) Dismissal of trademark claims

2. Configuration issues at stake

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B. The Role of Prior Art

1. Chrysler

2. La Grange – Midas Muffler

X. Summary

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Trademark and Copyright Infringement

One Lawyer’s On the Job Training

By: Howard E. King, Esq. King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner

Los Angeles, California 90067

EXHIBITS FOR PRESENTATION

1. Metallica v. Napster complaint

2. A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001)

3. Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa International Association, 494 F.3d 788 (9th Cir. 2007)

4. Joe Satriani v. Chris Martin complaint

5. Don Henley Cease and Desist (Chuck Devore)

6. Joe Walsh (the musician) Cease and Desist

7. Joe Walsh (the candidate) response

8. District Court Order in Henley v. Devore case

9. F.E.A. Merchandising v. Wenner Media complaint

10. Montana v. San Jose Mercury News, Inc., 24 Cal.App.4th 490 (1995)

11. “Let’s Get High” Lyrics

12. Young adv. Minder Music Voir Dire

13. F. Marc Schaffel Productions, LLC v. Fox News complaint

14. Young v WideAwake - Decision dismissing trademark claims