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    NO MORE COURT TIME FOR JORDAN “JUMPMAN” COPYRIGHT DISPUTE

    Is there a better time than March Madness to talk about basketball?   The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of a claim by photographer Jacobus Rentmeester that sports apparel company Nike infringed a copyright owned by Rentmeester.  The Plaintiff created this photograph – Michael Jordan airborne dunking a basketball – for a Life magazine article covering athletes who would soon feature in the 1984 Olympic Games.  Jordan, then a student-athlete at the University of North Carolina, would go on to play for the United States Men’s Basketball Team in the Olympics that summer. Nike later utilized a similar photograph of Jordan to create its…

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    An Interview with Marketing Director Liz Kemper

    What do you like about working at Lindley Law? I have never worked for a small law firm before and I absolutely love it. I wish I’d done it years ago. There’s something exciting about being a part of a relatively new firm where we are all working as a team to figure out how to strengthen the firm and make our clients happy. Most of our clients are individuals or small business owners who have very real problems that we help them solve as efficiently as possible.  In previous jobs, most of the clients my companies served were very large banks or corporations and it wasn’t very personal. I…