Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and others filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday against several companies and individuals who it charges committed a breach of contract and fraud by not paying money owed for the production of the movies Sin City 2 and Machete Kills.
A judge has ruled that two writers must go back to Square One if they wish to re-file claims that Fox's New Girl is a copyright infringement of their own work.
American Airlines is buckling up to defend a copyright lawsuit that could come as soon as next month from Universal Music Group. On Friday, attorneys for the airline told a Texas judge that it anticipates being a defendant when a "standstill agreement" with the record giant expires on November 10. The latest court documents signal a possible coordinated attack by the music industry to gain more income from the largest airline carriers in the country.
When Jessie Nizewitz filed a $10 million lawsuit in late August against Viacom and producers of VH1's Dating Naked for allegedly violating her privacy by failing to "blur out her vagina and anus," one might have assumed that the producers would rush to move the dispute into private arbitration. But the defendants have gone the extra step by waiving before a judge three releases signed by Nizewitz that allegedly give the producers the right to show Nizewitz' birthday suit.
Led Zeppelin is stuck in Pennsylvania at the moment, forced to confront claims the band stole its biggest hit "Stairway to Heaven" from Randy Craig Wolfe, founding member of the band Spirit.
On Friday, Google released its second annual report on efforts the web giant is making on the piracy front.
The report can be read below, and while we'll let others judge the success of programs like the ContentID program for YouTube, we'll take a moment to highlight page 18 — "Using Copyright Notices in Ranking."
Rape, verbal and physical abuse, indentured servitude and mental torment were but a few of the allegations put forth in a lawsuit filed by pop singer Kesha against hit songwriter-producer Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) on Oct. 13 in Los Angeles Superior Court.
It's former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani versus former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega in the latter's lawsuit alleging that video game developer Activision Blizzard violates his name and likeness in its best-selling game Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Giuliani, now a named partner at Bracewell & Giuliani, is defending the game publisher, and to hear him tell it, the former dictator's claims are an "outrageous offense to the First Amendment."
As some companies like Fox and Lionsgate fight the issue of whether unpaid internships violate labor laws in court, at least one giant media company appears to putting the litigation to bed.
According to a letter that was filed by a lawyer representing former NBCUniversal interns, the parties will soon be submitting a motion for preliminary approval of the parties’ settlement.
On Wednesday, New York federal judge Alison Nathan considered a preliminary injunction against Aereo, the controversial tech service that upon launching in the spring of 2012, promised to pry open the delivery of television signals so that customers could access the major networks on digital devices.
Worldview Entertainment, one of the production companies behind the buzzworthy film Birdman, is entangled in an escalating legal mess that has gone from one former executive's claim of being denied an executive producer credit on the Alejandro González Iñárritu film to new allegations filed this past Friday that former CEO Christopher Woodrow has embezzled money from the company.
As pop superstar Kesha Rose Sebert lobbed a bombshell lawsuit alleging disturbing sexual abuse on the part of her producer, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald was filing his own lawsuit against Kesha, her mother Pebe and her reps at Vector Management.
Dr. Luke's complaint, filed in New York Supreme Court, paints the dispute as arising out of a repudiation of Kesha's longstanding record deal.
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