• Posts Tagged ‘first sale doctrine’

    The EULA Working Against You

    by  • June 12, 2017 • copyright • 2 Comments

    GC2 Inc. v. Int’l Game Tech, PLC is a fairly unexciting copyright ownership case. The main argument involves construction of an ambiguous contract. (What other kinds are there?) GC2 provided “video graphics and artwork” for IGT’s gaming machines and conversion kits. The agreement had a license grant and it defined certain devices and fields...

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    Love Letters

    by  • October 14, 2008 • copyright

    Martin Luther King’s heirs are arguing over the ownership of the love letters Dr. King wrote to his wife Coretta.  The King couple’s daughter, Bernice, is refusing to turn them over to her brother, Dexter, for use in a book to be published by Penguin Group.  Penguin has threatened to pull out of the...

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    Sold! Or Just Licensed?

    by  • July 20, 2008 • copyright

    It’s perhaps a bit off-topic for this blog to post about ownership of tangible property, rather than the ownership of the IP itself. But the disagreement over when an object that contains copyrighted work is sold or merely licensed is heating up. There are three recent district court cases in the 9th Circuit that...

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