Susan M. Kornfield, J.D.skornfield@bodmanllp.com
This is a story about how an Ann Arbor publisher saved the day for a national cultural institution, beating out a old-line east coast publisher by being smart, fast, creative, and business-minded.
Earlier this year, one of my clients (a national museum) was hosting an international conference and desired to publish the conference […]

Susan M. Kornfield, J.D.skornfield@bodmanllp.comMusic sampling is theft. Sampling is stealing. Sampling is lazy. Sampling is criminal. If you want to sample, get a license!Those statements are bunk. Yet, at the moment, in the eyes of federal judges, they are an accurate statement of U.S. copyright law.Look, I’ll be the first […]

Susan M. Kornfield, J.D.
skornfield@bodmanllp.com
I’m back, and I’ve missed you. This week I learned of the next in the continuing series of [insert adjective here] business decisions involving bloated claims of intellectual property rights. This one is brought to you by Dr. Seuss (or his attorneys, we don’t really know).It involves the town of Louisville, Kentucky. […]