Copyright Violations

On August 8, 2008, Jimmy Daniel Alexander, a member of the rock band “ Rehab ,” filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada against the owners of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (“Hard Rock”) in Las Vegas. See Alexander v. Hard Rock Hotel, Inc. et al , Case No. 08-cv-01035 (D. Nev). A copy of the complaint can be downloaded here . According to the complaint, Alexander along with two other musicians formed “Rehab” in the late 1990s in Atlanta, Georgia ( see also Wikipedia write-up ). The band has released 5 albums to date ... Read Full Story

Hollywood Steals More People’s Copyrights Again Judd Aptow A Repeat Offender The 2007 Universal “ everything is on fire ” Pictures movie “ Knocked Up ” starring Katherine Heigl is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed last year. In the lawsuit, an author, Rebecca Eckler, contends her preexisting copyrighted 2004 book “ Knocked Up : Confessions of a Hip Mother-To Be” was infringed, down to the book cover. There are overwhelming similarities between the two and knowing Hollywood, I wouldn’t put it past them to do this. The copyright infringing piece of garbage “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” I believe her, ... Read Full Story

Apr. 15th, 2007 PHOTOGRAPHER TO FILE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ON GENE SIMMONS Gene Simmons of the rock band KISS facing another lawsuit... 2007-04-16 07:46:30 - Associate Press Newswire KISS bassist GENE SIMMONS has been notified he's violated another photographers copyrights. Edward Przydzial of Beverly Hills states; "Mr. Simmons has stolen and used/abused my copyrights as far back as 1997 when they returned to the classic make-up era of the 70's... He has used my images on merchandise magazines, books, kisstory, metal edge magazine kiss specials and more. He has made no attempt to pay me or request usage in the proper protocol." Przydzial from East ... Read Full Story

The outcome of the Viacom vs Google’s YouTube is still unclear but what’s even more confusing is how a judge could order Google to violate existing privacy law, according to some legal experts. We reported a couple of days ago about the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and how users may worry where their personal information ends up. Google is very willing to help in this matter but did state that it will ask Viacom to respect users’ privacy, but can we trust that this information will never be used in the future and how can we tell if it has? YouTube ... Read Full Story

*super-size pdf and jpeg versions coming soon... OBAMA JOKER PRINTABLE LARGE FORMAT DOWNLOADS HERE; http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/3932667533_1151cf1085_o.jpg http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3294/socialismprzydzialcrop.jpg A 45-year-old college art teacher of Polish/Austrian descent who supported Rep. Sarah Palin’s (vice) presidential candidacy is the anonymous artist who turned a Time magazine cover photo of Barack Hussein Obama into the nefarious Joker of the Batman series, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Edward Przydzial was home in Beverly Hills on his mid break from the Art Institute when he toyed around with Photoshop to come up with the image. He posted it to the picture site Flickr for friends to see his artwork, the paper ... Read Full Story