Author: Samuel Edandison

There is nothing blurry about a $7.4 million jury award. On March 11, a jury in Los Angeles ruled that Robin Thicke, Pharrell William, and Clifford Harris Jr.’s  (also known as T.I.)  2013 summer hit, “Blurred Lines”1 infringed on the copyright for Marvin Gaye’s 1977 “Got to Give It Up.”2 The jury ordered “Blurred Thicke, Williams and Harris…

After getting more than 80 convictions on insider trading, the tide may be tilting against federal prosecutors at the Southern District of New York (SDNY).1 In United States v. Newman, a case concerning two portfolio managers (Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson) from two different hedge funds firms, the government charged Newman and Chiasson with insider…

What is copyrightable code? Google and Oracle are in a battle to answer this question.  The issue is over Google’s use of Oracle’s Application-programming interface (API).  An API is a software-to-software interface that allows different applications to communicate with one another.1 The fact that users can copy text from a Mozilla browser to a Microsoft…

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world,” Shakespeare wrote.1 The United States government is now thinking twice about performing a good deed at a weary time. Former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg and his firm Starr International2 filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of fellow…