Producers of the movie Your Mommy Kills Animals, who won contract damages and copyright protection, got enough, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held March 6. The VLW Blog reported the dispute in Berman v. Johnson in October 2007, ...

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When we link to other internet sites on this blog, or on the main VLW Web site, we generally embed the address of the site into the text.  That underlines the text and makes it a “hyperlink,”  the commonly recognized ...

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The trouble is well into six figures for two Northern Virginia restaurateurs and their associates who were held liable this year for stealing the style and the recipes of a popular chain of Buffalo wing restaurants.  U.S. District Judge James ...

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West has embarked on publication of independent “white papers” on topics of legal interest, and one of the first is a piece by Virginia legal scholar Rod Smolla (W&L Law Dean, former UR Law Dean) on Viacom v. Google. The ...

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael F. Urbanski yesterday dismissed a $2 million lawsuit filed by a Lynchburg woman claiming that the company that makes pre-moistened Pledge and Windex wipes stole her idea. The News & Advance has the follow-up story.

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael F. Urbanski yesterday dismissed a $2 million lawsuit filed by a Lynchburg woman claiming that the company that makes pre-moistened Pledge and Windex wipes stole her idea. The News & Advance has the follow-up story.

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A Lynchburg woman says that she came up with the idea for pre-moistened cleaning wipes eight years ago and tried to sell the idea to S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., makers of Windex and Pledge. The lawyer for the company ...

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A Newport News federal district judge yesterday denied an ex parte discovery motion filed by music companies seeking to discover the names of seven Internet users at The College of William and Mary the companies allege violated copyright laws by ...

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