Sports Law

In a new move, the producer seeks to amend a complaint and argues that no privilege applies to a "sham" complaint leaked to TMZ before it was filed in court. ... Read More

By Stephanie Drawdy* When I chose the legal profession as a career, it was so that I could feed a burning intellectual interest in the law. An introductory political science course in high school piqued my interest in the process of government and politics. From that time, I felt a ... Read More

Disney, Paramount and Fox must contend with a lawsuit over "stolen" technology. The judge looks at past piracy cases and finds this situation more comparable to Napster than Google. ... Read More

Strangely overlooked in the hoorah about the mechanical licensing collective is the CASE Act that would finally establish a small claims court for copyright infringement.  If Big Tech is going to give themselves another safe harbor in MMA for the mechanical licenses they failed miserably to obtain, the least that ... Read More

A+E says it would have never have licensed "Project Runway" for Lifetime had it known the truth. In response, The Weinstein Co. pledges to go after A&E for airing movies without paying. ... Read More

Once again U.S. immigration is in the news regarding domestic violence and gang-violence related to asylum seekers. The turmoil came from the speech made by attorney General, Jeff Sessions’ opening remarks to the House Judiciary Committee’s Oversight of the Department of Justice regarding asylum. Mr. Sessions has not created a ... Read More

By Abby Placik* and the Center for Art Law Team Introduction: Writing on the Wall From 2011 to the present, at least four major protest movements – Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”), and #MeToo – have emerged in the United States. To express ... Read More

Reginald A. Byron, William S. Molidor, and Andrew Cantu, all of Southwestern University, have published US Newspapers’ Portrayals of Home Invasion Crime at 57 Howard Journal of Crime and Criminal Justice 250 (2018). Here is the abstract. This article presents ... Read More

By Angela Peco Edited by Elissa D. Hecker GENERAL NEWS Historic Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore Ends with Mounting Questions About What Has Been Achieved President Trump hailed his meeting with Kim Jong-Un as a "big step back from nuclear catastrophe", but critics say he made too many concessions without receiving ... Read More

MARK We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball… What bothers me isn’t that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not ... Read More

If I gave two fucks – two fucks about streaming numbers Would have put Lemonade up on Spotify Fuck you, fuck you, you’re cool, fuck you, I’m out (Ah!) I ain’t never seen a ceiling in my whole life, that’s word to Blue Freestyling live, blueprint from my Jigga who ... Read More

The producer will get to take the Armie Hammer film to another distributor in a settlement. ... Read More

Attorneys for Viacom, Brad Grey's estate and Brian Graden each tell the judge why a lawsuit from Rovier Carrington deserves to be tossed. ... Read More

Leading Artist Groups Announce Opposition To Sen. Wyden’s So-Called “ACCESS to Sound Recordings Act” — The groups write, “The CLASSICS Act would ensure that artists who created and contributed to timeless songs finally get their due and would bring much needed certainty to one of the most contentious and confused ... Read More

I’m pleased to let you know that veteran music publisher Richard Perna and I will be presenting “Music Publishing After the Music Modernization Act” on November 9 at the 29th Annual Entertainment Law Institute in Austin co-sponsored by the State Bar of Texas Entertainment & Sports Law Section.  You can ... Read More

The government confirms it won't seek a stay, but an appeal could happen nevertheless after AT&T agrees to "firewall" Turner Network operations. ... Read More

Tom Mesereau has been fired, Cosby's publicist confirms. ... Read More

By Jennie Nadel* New Kid on the Block Getting the Deal Through (GTDT) is a London-based website that provides users with updates on laws and regulations, published by Law Business Research and a number of other publications. The website, managed by Law Business Research Limited (http://lbresearch.com/), solicits lawyers and law ... Read More

50508397 – lzflzfThe Court of Appeals of Georgia last week reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit for negligence and loss of consortium against Snapchat, Inc. alleging the social media giant’s controversial “speed filter” was a proximate cause of an accident that nearly took the plaintiff’s life. The lawsuit alleges that ... Read More

On May 21, 2018, in Epic Sys. Corp. v. Lewis (“Epic Systems”), 584 U.S. __ (2018), the Supreme Court of the United States issued an important ruling for the future of employee-employer disputes.  The Court held that agreements in which employees waive the right to pursue class action lawsuits against ... Read More

CAA "invented the art of the deal and the hustle," said AMC's attorney at a hearing Wednesday. ... Read More

Jennifer Rothman, Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), has published The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (Introduction) (Harvard University Press, 2018). Here is the abstract. THE RIGHT OF PUBLICITY: PRIVACY REIMAGINED FOR A PUBLIC WORLD (Harvard University ... Read More

A roundup of entertainment law developments. ... Read More

Read U. S. District Court Judge Richard Leon's (lengthy) A.T.& T./Time Warner merger decision, courtesy of a CNBC link. Discussion here (CBS), Variety, CNBC. ... Read More

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon examined the government's theories and finds vertical mergers "are not invariably innocuous," but faults the Trump Justice Department for presenting insufficient evidence demonstrating why competition in the media industry will be substantially lessened. ... Read More

"The Government here has taken its best shot to block the merger based on the law and facts," writes the judge. "The defendants did their best to oppose it. The Court has spoken." ... Read More

The blockbuster ruling comes in a historic antitrust case that will impact the future of the entertainment and media landscape. ... Read More

As do other Hollywood studios and media groups warning of unintended consequences. ... Read More

The plaintiff accuses Netflix's board members of not disclosing the streamer's liability on the tax front after allegedly rigging its compensation system with sham bonuses. ... Read More

The supermodel has brought Lanham Act claims against producers of "Shahs of Sunset" for filming her without knowledge and consent and supposedly fabricating a controversy. ... Read More