Tom James

About Tom James

Cokato attorney Thomas B. James (less formally known as Thomas James) practices copyright registration and representation, and trademark registration and representation, at the Law Office of Tom James in Cokato, Minnesota. Representative case: Hansen v. Todnem (Minnesota Supreme Court.)

Memberships:

• American Bar Association
• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Hennepin County Bar Association
• Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
• National Association for the Self-Employed
• Copyright Alliance
• Authors Alliance

Tom James attorney is the author of E-Commerce Law: The Legal Compliance Handbook for Online Businesses, IP Law for Non-IP Attorneys, Website Law, The History of Custody Law, and several law review articles. Amazon Author page. Thomas James also teaches continuing legal education (CLE) courses to attorneys and other legal professionals at Echion CLE. He maintains two blogs:

Cokato Copyright Attorney - The Law Blog of Thomas James

Thomas B James on Medium.com (personal blog)

Legal News and Updates (ScoopIt)

Representative articles:

• • “Overruling Rostker v. Goldberg: Toward an Equal Obligation to Register for Selective Service,” Nebraska Law Review (May, 2021) 
  • “Sales and Use Tax Nexus: The Way Forward for Legislation,” Mitchell-Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy & Practice, vol. 41, no. 1 (2020)
  • “Assisted Reproduction: Reforming State Statutes After Obergefell v. Hodges and Pavan v. Smith,” University of Maryland Law Journalof Race, Religion, Gender & Class, vol. 19 (2020)
  • “Protecting Copyrights in Professional and Academic Writing,” LinkedIn.com (2020). .
  • “Copyright Enforcement: Time to Abolish the Pre-Litigation Registration Requirement,” Illinois Law Review (Fall, 2019). Read it on ResearchGate.
  • “E-Commerce Sales Taxes: What Your Online Business Needs to Know,” AllBusiness.com  (June 17, 2019)
  • “Use Tax Nexus: The Illusory Utility of Volume Thresholds,” Tax Notes – State (April 29, 2019). 
  • Copyright Enforcement: Time to Abolish the Pre-Litigation Registration Requirement, Pulse (2019)

Blog posts: 

• Scraping Bias (February 25, 2024)
• Supreme Court Ethics and the Separation of Powers (November 11, 2023)
• 7 Big US Supreme Court Decisions Coming Soon (May 8, 2023)

• New AI Copyright Guidance (March 16, 2023)
• The CCB's First 2 Determinations (March 6, 2023)
• A Recent Entrance to Complexity (February 26, 2023)
• Is ChatGPT Really HAL from 2001? (February 16, 2023)
• Getty Images Litigation Update (February 7, 2023)
• AI Legal Issues (February 3, 2023)
• Does AI Infringe Copyright? (February 25, 2023)
• Newly Public Domain Works (January 2, 2023)
• The Top Copyright Cases of 2022 (December 26, 2022)
• "Woke" Is Not a Race, Sex, or Sexual Orientation Category (December 16, 2022)
• Words to Retire in 2023 (December 1, 2022)
• Court Agrees to Hear Parody Goods Case (November 27, 2022)
• MSCHF Testing the Limits of Free Speech (November 8, 2022)
• Books by Tom James (October 18, 2022)
• Job Search Scam Red Flags (September 29, 2022)
• The Philosophy of Copyright (August 26, 2022)
• Photographers' Rights: Warhol Case Tests Limits of Transformative Use (August 18, 2022)
• The Internet Archive Lawsuit (July 21, 2022)
• Dobbs: What Happened and What It Means (June 26, 2022)
• "The" a Registered Trademark Now (June 23, 2022)
• Copyright Claims Board Opens (June 16, 2022)
• 13 Sizzling Hot Logical Fallacies (May 30, 3022)
• AI Can Create But Is It Art (May 25, 2022)
• Trauma-Informed Law Practices (April 15, 2022)
• Free Speech (March 27, 2022)
• For Whom the Za Tolls (March 23, 2022)
• Top o’ the Blarney to Ya (March 17, 2022)
• Newly Public Domain Works (March 8, 2022)
• Unicolors v. Hennes & Mauritz (February 24, 2022)
• Digital Tokens and Trademark (February 19, 2022)
• NFTs and Copyright (February 10, 2022)
• The Trademark Modernization Act (iLawConnect, January 14, 2022)
• 10 Key Points to Cover in an Employment Contract (Avvo, 2021)
• 10 Essential Legal Steps in Starting a Business (Avvo, 2021)
• The Top US Supreme Court Decisions of All Time (2021)

Courses from Tom James:

Protecting Trademarks and Names

IP Law for Non-IP Attorneys

Representing Relatives in Post-Permanency Proceedings (Minnesota State Bar Association CLE)

The New Copyright Small Claims Court CLE

The New Copyright Small Claims Court (non-credit course for non-attorneys)

Trauma-Informed Practices for Attorneys

Relative Foster Care and Adoptions

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Minnesota attorney Thomas James has a TEFL/TESOL certificate, a TEYL certificate, and a CTBE (Business English teaching certificate.)

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