Law Practice
Apr. 23, 2020
Risk Reward
Attorneys at Sidley Austin LLP said misconceptions about what physical ownership of a copyrighted product entitles a purchaser to are common in IP law and that problem will snowball with so many stuck at home trying to get the work and school materials they need. That could lead to an increase in copyright litigation.
Homebound teachers and office workers swapping files en masse are creating an infringement firestorm that could tee up half a decade's worth of intellectual property rights battles, according to the copyright team at Sidley Austin LLP.
There's a lot of good-faith acting and flexibility throughout the public and private sectors currently that likely wouldn't be occurring absent a major crisis like COVID-19, said Rollin A. Ransom, an ...
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