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Counsel Concerns: Plaintiffs' Counsel Faces Sanctions In Litigation that Alleged Wrestler Head Damage Image

Counsel Concerns: Plaintiffs' Counsel Faces Sanctions In Litigation that Alleged Wrestler Head Damage

Robert Storace

More than 50 wrestlers sued World Wrestling Entertainment, claiming it knew — but never disclosed — the risk associated with the sport. But it was Massachusetts plaintiff counsel Konstantine Kyros and his firm who judges singled out for plagiarism, false claims and other misbehavior in the case.

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Global Perspective On Filing Trademark Registrations

Peter E. Nussbaum & Neha Bhalani

The entertainment industry is a global business, but many U.S. brand owners do not realize that their valuable trademark rights stop at the U.S. border.

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Methods for Trademark Valuations

Stacey C. Kalamaras & Henry Kaskov

Valuations of trademarks, such as those in the entertainment industry, are most commonly performed in relation to a sale or licensing transaction or for lending and collateral purposes.

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CA Appeals Court Rules Hobbs & Shaw Film Dispute Must Be Heard By Court Image

CA Appeals Court Rules Hobbs & Shaw Film Dispute Must Be Heard By Court

Alaina Lancaster

Universal City Studios will have to settle a contract dispute with a producer from the Fast & Furious movie franchise in court after a California appeals court ruled the entertainment company could not enforce an arbitration agreement.

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28th Cutting Edge Entertainment Law Seminar. Oct. 15-17, 2020.

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In Decision of First Impression, Court Decides 'Gap Grants' Can Be Terminated Under §203 of U.S. Copyright Act Image

In Decision of First Impression, Court Decides 'Gap Grants' Can Be Terminated Under §203 of U.S. Copyright Act

Stan Soocher

In the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress inserted a termination right for authors or their successors for pre-January 1, 1978, assignments of copyrighted works. However, the legislators didn't directly address a key issue: how to determine termination rights for what are known as "gap grant" works — that is, those created post-1977 under copyright assignments made before then.

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COVID-19 and Force Majeure Clauses

Neil J. Rosini & Michael I. Rudell

The COVID-19 outbreak has wreaked havoc on the entertainment industry. Productions have been halted and distribution channels disrupted. In the midst of this pandemic, one big question for contracting parties is whether force majeure will excuse or postpone a party's obligations without liability.

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FL Federal Court Rules 'Despacito' Doesn't Infringe on 'Despasito' Image

FL Federal Court Rules 'Despacito' Doesn't Infringe on 'Despasito'

Raychel Lean

Federal Judge Kathleen Williams recently analyzed the hit song "Despacito" in a copyright lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, when she found its writers had not copied an earlier Spanish song with the same name.

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Damages In Trademark Infringement Litigations

Mark A. Salky & Jessica Johnson Fishfeld

During a time when online marketing, virtual shopping and electronic communication are more widely used than ever, it is critically important for entertainment industry businesses to be highly aware of how they are using trademarks, the scope of a trademark owner's rights and the consequences of infringing them.

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Ticket Refund Suits Against StubHub to Get MDL Treatment

Amanda Bronstad

Online ticket reseller StubHub faces lawsuits over allegedly unrefunded event tickets in California, after a federal judicial panel ordered that similar cases from jurisdictions in multiple states be coordinated.

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