by Michael D. Steger | Feb 27, 2025 | Copyrights, Uncategorized
The fair use exception in the Copyright Act provides an affirmative defense to an infringement claim. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides that the use of copyrighted material for “purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching . . ....
by Michael D. Steger | Jan 10, 2024 | Copyrights, Uncategorized
Megan J. Abner, Associate January 1, 2024, this year’s so-called “public domain day,” marked the partial release of the world’s most famous mouse into the public domain. Disney’s iconic “Steamboat Willie” and lesser-known “Plane Crazy,” both released in 1928, marked...
by Michael D. Steger | Feb 13, 2020 | Copyrights, Featured
If the three rules of real estate are location, location, location, the three rules of copyright protection should be: get it in writing, get it in writing, get it in writing. A recent copyright case against the famed glass sculptor Dale Chihuly illustrates the...
by Michael D. Steger | Jul 15, 2018 | Copyrights, Featured, Trademarks
A new client recently engaged our firm to handle an increasingly common problem: someone had registered a domain name that was almost identical to the client’s own website. The only difference between the client’s domain and the fake site was an...
by Michael D. Steger | Mar 27, 2018 | Copyrights, Featured
Michael Steger appears with Joe Naylor, the CEO of ImageRights International, to discuss copyright issues in photography, on Season 5 of the RGG EDU Podcast: RGG EDU Podcast Season 5 During this podcast Mr. Naylor and Mr. Steger discuss the requirements for...
by Michael D. Steger | Dec 4, 2016 | Copyrights, Corporate Law, Featured, Trademarks
When he is sworn in on January 20th, Donald Trump will become the first American president to have owned trademark registrations while in office. (Quick quiz: Who was the only U.S. President to have a patent while in office? Answer at the end of the post). Trademark...