David Rabinowitz

Nov 14, 2024 | mondaq.com | David Rabinowitz

A tattoo artist applies a tattoo to a customer who happens to be a prominent wrestler. The wrestler licenses his likeness for use in a video game. The video game depicts the wrestler, tattoos and all. Is there a copyright problem? If there is a copyright problem, is there a fair use solution? Maybe. A slight variation from the aforesaid facts in a new case titled Alexander v. Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., 18-cv-00966 (S.D. Ill.

Nov 14, 2024 | mondaq.com | David Rabinowitz

Until 1891, the United States was, by law, a copyright piratical nation. Foreign owners of copyrights could not enforce them in the United States. Since 1891, the United States has allowed foreign owners of copyrights to enforce their copyrights in the United States. Why then did the Fifth Circuit refuse to enforce Canadian copyrights that had already been enforced against the same defendant in Canada by permanent injunction and contempt?

Oct 25, 2024 | sajems.org | David Rabinowitz |Warren Maroun |Mahmood I. Surty |Waheeda Mohamed

Original Research David Rabinowitz, Mahmood I. Surty, Waheeda Mohamed, Warren Maroun South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences | Vol 27, No 1 | a5781 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v27i1.5781 | © 2024 David Rabinowitz, Mahmood I.

Oct 8, 2024 | mondaq.com | David Rabinowitz

It's easy to have an Internet service provider take down a post by claiming that the post infringes a copyright. But doing so without a reasonable good faith belief that there is infringement creates exposure: The notice giver can be liable both for statutory and common law remedies. MFB Fertility, a manufacturer of a fertility product – an ovulation test – sent Amazon a notice to take down a competitor's page, claiming copyright infringement.

Sep 26, 2024 | gavi.org | Judith Moore |David Rabinowitz

Gaps in healthcare stem from a complex interplay of structural biases, flaws in health systems and inequities in the social, economic and environmental drivers of health. Many of these issues are influenced by place, which means local areas have an important role to play in reducing health inequities. Place-based approaches – collaborative, community-led and long-term work in a defined geographic location – can be a powerful way to build healthy, inclusive and resilient communities.