This exact topic came up at the Licensing International Expo 2011 (#LX11) and my colleague Staci Riordan blogged about it here. Check out the legal issues around this growing area. “Imagine watching Inception at home and being able to instantly own one of those spinning tops. Or picture leaving a screening of Transformers 3 and immediately buying an autobot of …
Paul Ceglia’s Big-Firm Lawyers Just Ditched His Case Against Facebook
“When Paul Ceglia first claimed he owned half of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook shares, not too many people paid attention. But when he hired lawyers from megafirm DLA Piper to re-file his lawsuit in federal court—and attached a bunch of alleged email exchanges with Zuckerberg—he started getting headlines in a big way. Now Ceglia’s big-firm lawyers have unceremoniously withdrawn from the …