Copyright & Trademark Law Center: Insights & Analysis: Copyright Licensing

9/15/2008 2:23:56 PM EST

Claypoole on How a License Becomes a Sale: Software Applications of the First Sale Doctrine

Posted by Ted Claypoole
Member, Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice

Even careful drafting of a software license can be stripped of its protections by a court. In some cases, United States courts have declared that standard software licenses must be inte ...

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4/3/2008 12:46:40 PM EST

Bensen on Davis v. Blige

Posted by Eric E Bensen
Co-author of Milgrim on Licensing and Milgrim on Trade Secrets and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law

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8/28/2008 3:02:05 PM EST

Eric E. Bensen on Compulsory License Does Not Give a Karaoke Machine Manufacturer the Right to Display Song Lyrics in Real Time with the Licensed Song Recordings: Leadsinger, Inc. v. BMG Music Publg, 512 F.3d 522 (9th Cir. 2008)

Posted by Eric E Bensen
Co-author of Milgrim on Licensing and Milgrim on Trade Secrets and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law

Leadsinger manufactured a microphone that televised lyrics to songs and enabled consumers to sing along with the lyrics. BMG issued Leadsinger compulsory mechanical licenses to its musi ...

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