Louboutin appeals a trial court’s decision to not enforce protection for his trademarked red soles. The trial court’s decision and the appeal highlight some interesting issues surrounding color trademark protection. The appellate court should not grant Louboutin trademark protection of his red soles because it could impermissibly hurt competition.

The Gap has initiated an investigation to determine whether Kim Kardashian’s reputation has been tarnished as she claimed in her July allegations of trademark infringement and misappropriation. Kardashian alleges The Gap’s Old Navy commercial featured an actress intended to look like the infamous reality star.

Despite the tremendous opposition to SOPA and PIPA in the United States, lobbyists are pushing Canada to incorporate SOPA-like provisions into Bill C-11, Canada’s latest attempt to toughen their copyright protections. Michael Geist, a Canadian …

Under the DMCA, jailbreaking is an exemption to the anti-circumvention provisions. However, the exemption expires in 2012 and a digital rights advocacy group is petitioning the Copyright Office to extend the jailbreaking exemption.

Grooveshark faces lawsuits from all the major music labels for copyright infringement. Will the “safe harbor” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect it from liability or will Grooveshark’s reliance on the provision be its downfall?

EA attempts to create precedent regarding unlicensed use of trademarks in a video game context with its January 6 declaratory judgment action against Bell Helicopters.

The arrest of Kim Dotcom in New Zealand demonstrates that the Obama Administration values the contributions of the entertainment industry to the United States economy and is willing to protect those contributions.

The Supreme Court recently ruled in Golan v. Holder to uphold section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act which gives works by foreign authors the same copyright protection available to U.S. works.

A British publisher was barred by German courts from publishing a pamphlet that contained excerpts from Hitler’s Mein Kampf

Polish citizens protested this week to their government signing onto ACTA, voicing concerns that the adoption of its provisions would shift so much power to copyright holders that the people’s fundamental rights to digital privacy would be impaired. With the government going forward anyway, what will the protests accomplish?