How do you sort out who owns a social media account used to promote a business?

Imagine this scenario – a well-known founder of a company sets up social media accounts that promote the company’s products. The accounts also occasionally display personal content (e.g., public happy birthday messages the founder sends to his spouse). The company fires the founder and then claims it owns of the accounts. If the founder says [...]

By |2023-06-19T10:32:22-05:00June 19th, 2023|Branding, Contracts, Right of Publicity|Comments Off on How do you sort out who owns a social media account used to promote a business?
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Fair Use and Transformativeness – Unpacking Warhol v. Goldsmith

Is Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince transformative and non-infringing? The copyright bar and much of the  art world has been anxiously awaiting the answer to this question since the Supreme Court decided to take up the matter.   Apparently, Justices Kagan and Roberts were waiting for the same thing. Background In 1984, Andy Warhol created for Vanity [...]

By |2023-06-09T12:31:00-05:00May 26th, 2023|Copyright, Intellectual Property, Licesnsing, Name Image Likeness, Right of Publicity|Comments Off on Fair Use and Transformativeness – Unpacking Warhol v. Goldsmith
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