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Entertainment Law


Robert A. Darwell

Nov. 6, 2014
By Matthew Blaken

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Corporate Los Angeles ...


Entertainment Law


Jay L. Cooper

Nov. 6, 2014
By Alison Frost

Greenberg Traurig LLP Los Angeles Corporate ...


Entertainment Law


Lindsay Conner

Nov. 6, 2014
By Alex Shively

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Los Angeles Corporate ...


Entertainment Law


Joseph Calabrese

Nov. 6, 2014
By Alex Shively

O'Melveny & Myers LLP Los Angeles Corporate ...


Entertainment Law


P. John Burke

Nov. 6, 2014
By Alexandra Schwappach

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Los Angeles Finance ...


Entertainment Law


Harold A. Brown

Nov. 6, 2014
By Melanie Brisbon

Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown Inc. Beverly Hills Talent ...


Entertainment Law


Skip Brittenham

Nov. 6, 2014
By Matthew Blaken

Ziffren Brittenham LLP Los Angeles Talent ...


Entertainment Law


Christopher Brearton

Nov. 6, 2014
By Alex Shively

O'Melveny & Myers LLP Los Angeles Corporate ...


Entertainment Law


Daniel H. Black

Nov. 6, 2014
By Alison Frost

Greenberg Traurig LLP Los Angeles Corporate ...


Entertainment Law


Bob Baradaran

Nov. 6, 2014
By Matthew Blaken

Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP Los Angeles Corporate ...


Entertainment Law


Lincoln Bandlow

Nov. 6, 2014
By Kibkabe Arayan

Lathrop & Gage LLP Los Angeles Intellectual Property ...


Entertainment Law


A federal court ruling this fall against Sirius XM Radio Inc. in a copyright lawsuit brought by Flo & Eddie, lead vocalist...


Perspective


Screenwriters registering their work with the WGA Script Registry instead of the Copyright Office are not only costing themsel...


Entertainment & Sports


Celebrities getting SLAPPed around

Nov. 6, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

A court's recent finding - that an issue of public interest is simply any issue the public is interested in - has serio...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports


With one case decided and another pending, it's clear that digital music service providers and the iconic '60s rock band are n...


Entertainment & Sports


For years, the concept of "branded entertainment" was confined to major corporate entertainment companies. Not anymore. By Dar...


Perspective


The need to update copyright law is quite apparent

Nov. 6, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

With access to creative works so prolific in the digital age, the need to update the copyright law is apparent. By Julie S. Ma...


Intellectual Property


More than one way to terminate copyright

Nov. 6, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

Some literary estates might want to pay attention to a little-known termination quirk of the 1909 Copyright Act. By John M. Gr...


Intellectual Property


Stolen idea? A tale of two claims

Nov. 6, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

Idea theft or copyright infringement? It matters which you choose to pursue. By Aleksandra Hilvert ...


Technology & Science


New weapons to battle cybersquatters

Nov. 6, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

As the number of domain names increase with the roll out of generic top-level domains, celebrities and other trademark owners ...


Perspective


Copyright law is never quite as simple as it seems

Nov. 6, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

The recent "Raging Bull" decision, grounded in part on the virtue of predictability, has produced unpredictability regarding p...


Litigation


An attorney for the ex-girlfriend of "Lost Boys" actor Jason Patric vowed Tuesday to challenge a Los Angeles judge's novel dec...


Saying that "there appears to be no end in sight" to the Chapter 9 bankruptcy filed by San Bernardino in 2012, the city's poli...


Litigation


Retailers' price-fixing lawsuit moves ahead

Nov. 6, 2014
By Hadley Robinson

Food retailers claiming they paid more for wholesale ramen noodles because of a price-fixing conspiracy in South Korea can mov...


Litigation


A federal judge Tuesday ruled that hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management would not be barred from voting its majority ...


In a big win for asbestos plaintiffs, an Alameda County Superior Court jury has awarded nearly $71 million to a U.S. Navy mach...


Corporate


Corporate counsel cut down on spending

Nov. 6, 2014
By Riley Guerin

In its 2014 survey of chief legal officers released Tuesday, legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. showed how in-house legal ...


The copyright fair use defense has existed for centuries, yet its application continues to mystify and confound even the most ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


A Kenyan immigrant who fears he will be tortured and killed for criticizing his government if returned to his homeland got hel...


The state's judicial watchdog wants to be able to send state and federal agencies information about judges' alleged misdeeds b...