Media & Entertainment

  • February 27, 2024

    FCC OKs T-Mobile's 2.5 GHz Licenses Over AT&T Objection

    The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday signed off, over an objection from AT&T, on a raft of new T-Mobile licenses in the 2.5 gigahertz spectrum band with the condition that T-Mobile divest some spectrum holdings in Hawaii.

  • February 27, 2024

    OpenAI Says NYT Suit Not Up To Own 'Journalistic' Standards

    OpenAI slammed The New York Times Co. for not meeting "its famously rigorous journalistic standards" with its complaint accusing the artificial intelligence company and Microsoft Corp. of ripping off Times content to train ChatGPT, with OpenAI alleging the newspaper hired a hacker to generate various examples of ChatGPT reproducing near-verbatim copies of articles.

  • February 27, 2024

    Make Sure Net Neutrality Covers Wholesale Service, FCC Told

    The Federal Communications Commission needs to ensure wholesale broadband access services are covered by net neutrality rules the commission is expected to adopt soon, a trade group for competitive networks told the agency Monday.

  • February 27, 2024

    Ex-NESN Exec Gets 3½ Years In Fraud Scheme

    A former executive at the Massachusetts cable network that broadcasts Red Sox and Bruins games was sentenced Tuesday to 3½ years in prison for embezzling nearly $600,000 from his employer through an elaborate invoicing scheme, crimes a judge called both "deliberate" and "insidious" and the government called "brazen."

  • February 27, 2024

    Texas AG Sues Pornhub Owner Over Lack Of Age Verification

    Pornhub's parent company, Aylo Entertainment, was hit with a lawsuit in Texas state court Monday by Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused the adult entertainment giant of failing to implement age verification systems on its websites that publish sexually explicit content, leaving it open for minors to readily access its platforms.

  • February 27, 2024

    Calif. Law Firm Can't Shake Arbitration Award In Fees Dispute

    A California state appeals court has affirmed an arbitration award totaling more than $1 million in quantum meruit damages, outstanding contract awards, arbitration fees, expenses and interest for Golden State civil rights firm The Bloom Firm, two years after its partnership with a rival firm unraveled.

  • February 27, 2024

    OpenAI 'Fails to Explain' Away Fee Bid, 11th Circ. Told

    A Georgia radio host is continuing to press his case that OpenAI owes him legal fees for its abortive bid to remove his defamation suit against the company to federal court, telling the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday that there's ample grounds to send the case back to the district court level for the explanation he's owed.

  • February 27, 2024

    UFC, Fighters In Mediation Ahead Of Wage Suppression Trial

    Ultimate Fighting Championship has entered private mediation with a group of fighters suing the promotion in Nevada federal court for suppressing their wages by up to $1.6 billion, adding a new wrinkle to the case just weeks ahead of trial.

  • February 26, 2024

    Google Judge Rips $700M Antitrust Deal: 'It's Not Great'

    A California federal judge lambasted a $700 million deal that consumers and state attorneys general struck with Google blocking antitrust claims related to Android apps and the Play Store for 127 million consumers for the next seven years, saying Monday he's "never granted prospective relief" and that plaintiffs "folded" with "four aces."

  • February 26, 2024

    Diddy Producer Says He Was Sexually Assaulted, Harassed

    A producer who worked on Diddy's latest album said Monday that he was sexually assaulted and harassed by the rapper and his friends while living and working with him, and also witnessed Diddy providing "laced alcoholic beverages" to minors and sex workers, according to a lawsuit filed in New York federal court.

  • February 26, 2024

    NIST Widens Cybersecurity Framework To Cover All Industries

    The U.S. Department of Commerce agency that developed a landmark cybersecurity framework for critical infrastructure operators announced Monday that it had finalized a long-anticipated update, aimed at helping all industry sectors and organizations, to a voluntary tool to better manage cyber risks.

  • February 26, 2024

    Live Nation Can't Cancel Suit Over Eras Tour Sales Meltdown

    A California federal judge refused Friday to end a proposed securities class action alleging Live Nation made misleading statements about its operations when news of alleged anticompetitive practices with Ticketmaster caused stock prices to drop, finding the suit describes "a materially different state of affairs" than what Live Nation claimed.

  • February 26, 2024

    Clement, Prelogar Odd Bedfellows In Social Media Showdown

    After GOP-led states targeted perceived stifling of conservative voices on social media, Monday's oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court could have featured predictable partisan fissures. But the case instead illustrated that legal ideology in the digital age is sometimes surprising.

  • February 26, 2024

    UK Photog Drops Copyright Claims Against Cannabis Co.

    A photographer who accused a cannabis licensing firm of using his image of the Empire State Building to push sales without his say-so has quietly dropped his copyright suit in New York federal court.

  • February 26, 2024

    Ligado Claims Iridium Bias In $40B Spectrum Takings Case

    Ligado Networks has pushed back against Iridium Communications' bid to back the government in Ligado's $40 billion lawsuit accusing the government of unlawfully taking over a spectrum it secured exclusive licensing for, saying Iridium had ulterior motives for filing a friend-of-the-court brief.

  • February 26, 2024

    Apple Antitrust Class Action Gets Early 2026 Trial Date

    A California federal judge on Monday set trial in a high-stakes consumer class action antitrust fight over Apple's App Store policies for February 2026, but refused to weigh in on Apple's request to pause certain discovery while the tech giant appeals the judge's recent class certification decision.

  • February 26, 2024

    Religious Stations Ask Justices To Review Webcast Royalties

    Religious webmasters who say that the Copyright Royalty Board's latest rate hike affects them disproportionately want the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their case and decide whether there is religious discrimination at play.

  • February 26, 2024

    MLB.tv Illegally Shares Users' Info With Facebook, Suit Says

    Major League Baseball Advanced Media LP violates the privacy rights of MLB.tv subscribers by secretly monitoring their video viewing activities and sharing that and other personal information with Facebook without permission, according to a putative class action filed Monday in New York federal court.

  • February 26, 2024

    MetaBirkins NFT Maker Tells 2nd Circ. 'Artwork' Is Protected

    The creator of the MetaBirkins non-fungible token collection has told the Second Circuit that his use of the iconic Hermès bag's name and likeness was relevant to his artwork but said the New York court misapplied the test of whether it was protected speech when it found that the digital assets infringed on the fashion house's trademarks.

  • February 26, 2024

    Protect 'Cellular V2X' Technology In Cars, Group Urges Feds

    Federal Communications Commission rules need to make sure unlicensed signals don't interfere with the nascent cellular vehicle-to-everything technology, which allows cars to communicate with their environments, a trade group emphasized in a recent letter to the FCC.

  • February 26, 2024

    Justices Say Social Media Speech Laws Pose 'Land Mines'

    The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday of the constitutionality of Florida and Texas laws prohibiting social media platforms from removing content or users based on viewpoint, but struggled with whether the still-developing records in the lawsuits challenging the regulations could support a meaningful ruling on platforms' First Amendment rights.

  • February 26, 2024

    FCC OKs Frequency Coordination Tech For 6 GHz Band

    The Federal Communications Commission is approving a group of applications for automated frequency coordination systems to allow unlicensed, standard power Wi-Fi devices on the 6 gigahertz band, saying the systems showed through rigorous testing that they can use the band without causing harmful interference to incumbent users.

  • February 26, 2024

    Bally Sports Parent Gets OK For $495M Settlement, $450M DIP

    A Houston bankruptcy judge on Monday approved a $495 million settlement and a $450 million debtor-in-possession financing package for Bally Sports Network's parent company, loading the bases for the broadcaster to file a Chapter 11 plan in the coming weeks.

  • February 26, 2024

    Ponzi Schemer To Be Resentenced After High Court Ruling

    A man who pled guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that targeted elderly victims will be resentenced after prosecutors agreed to dismiss an aggravated identity theft count following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the type of conduct that triggers the identity theft statute.

  • February 26, 2024

    Disney Sued Over Woman's Death From Allergen-Filled Meal

    A New York man whose wife died of an allergic reaction after eating at an Irish restaurant at Walt Disney World is suing both the restaurant and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for negligence, asserting they were repeatedly assured that the food they were served was free of allergens.

Expert Analysis

  • 4 Ways High Court Web Designer Ruling Bolsters Online Biz

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    The logic of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis bodes well for the future of First Amendment protections online, and four aspects of the opinion stand out for their application to online services more broadly, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • PTAB Ruling Highlights Public Accessibility Rule For Prior Art

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    In Microsoft v. ThroughPuter, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently found that a prior art reference did not qualify due to insufficient evidence it was publicly accessible, illustrating the Federal Circuit burden of proof on parties using an institutional printed publication as an invalidating reference, say Joseph Beauchamp and Alison Ibendahl at Jones Day.

  • 3 Ideas To Guide In-House Counsel On Creating AI Policies

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    When drafting guidelines on generative artificial intelligence use for organizations that have a heightened need to safeguard their intellectual property, in-house counsel will need to address some gray areas that have become difficult to navigate in order to set their company up for success, say Enrique Abarca and Tanner Jarrell at Nabors Corporate.

  • OECD Treatment Of Purchased Ga. Film Credits Isn't Peachy

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    Producers considering Georgia as a prospective location for filming may already be concerned that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's July decision will hamper the eventual 2026 or later sale of their Georgia film tax credits, says Alan Lederman at Gunster.

  • In-Office Engagement Is Essential To Associate Development

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    As law firms develop return-to-office policies that allow hybrid work arrangements, they should incorporate the specific types of in-person engagement likely to help associates develop attributes common among successful firm leaders, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Fed. Circ. Grill Ruling Clears Up Original Patent Requirement

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    The Federal Circuit's recent decision rejecting a floating grill company's patent reissue request clarifies the original patent requirement and offers several cautionary lessons for legal practitioners, including the need to think critically and creatively about disclosure, says Alexis Cohen at WilmerHale.

  • Trends Emerge In High Court's Criminal Law Decisions

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    In its 2022-2023 term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued nine merits decisions in criminal cases covering a wide range of issues, and while each decision is independently important, when viewed together, key trends and takeaways appear that will affect defendants moving forward, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.

  • Perspectives

    A Judge's Pitch To Revive The Jury Trial

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    Ohio state Judge Pierre Bergeron explains how the decline of the jury trial threatens public confidence in the judiciary and even democracy as a whole, and he offers ideas to restore this sacred right.

  • It All Comes Down To Choice Of Law In Nazi-Looted Art Case

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    The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in a nearly 20-year ownership battle over a Nazi-looted painting shows the court lacked adequate guidance on how California's choice-of-law rule should be applied to stolen property and that the choice of law — between California or Spain — will likely determine whose claim to the painting prevails, says Kevin Ray at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Rebuttal

    Mallory Ruling Doesn't Undermine NC Sales Tax Holding

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    Contrary to the conclusion reached in a recent Law360 guest article, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Mallory ruling shouldn't be read as implicitly repudiating the North Carolina Supreme Court’s sales tax ruling in Quad Graphics v. North Carolina Department of Revenue — the U.S. Supreme Court could have rejected Quad by directly overturning it, says Jonathan Entin at Case Western Reserve.

  • Perspectives

    People In Prison Should Have Access To Digital Technology

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    There are a number of reasons why people who are incarcerated should have access to digital communication technology — from facilitating reentry to saving lives in a future pandemic — but they need the means and the necessary legal protections to do so, say NYU Law student Suchy Kahlon and First Amendment attorney Dan Novack.

  • How To Recognize And Recover From Lawyer Loneliness

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    Law can be one of the loneliest professions, but there are practical steps that attorneys and their managers can take to help themselves and their peers improve their emotional health, strengthen their social bonds and protect their performance, says psychologist and attorney Traci Cipriano.

  • Opinion

    Litigation Funding Disclosure Should Be Mandatory

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    Despite the Appellate Rules Committee's recent deferral of the issue of requiring third-party litigation funding disclosure, such a mandate is necessary to ensure the even-handed administration of justice across all cases, says David Levitt at Hinshaw.

  • Recalling USWNT's Legal PR Playbook Amid World Cup Bid

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    As the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team strives to take home another World Cup trophy, their 2022 pay equity settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation serves as a good reminder that winning in the court of public opinion can be more powerful than a victory inside the courtroom, says Hector Valle at Vianovo.

  • Parsing Through The FTC's Proposed Health Privacy Updates

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recently proposed updates to its Health Breach Notification Rule contain subtle but significant changes to key terms that help modernize the agency's health app regulation and provide stakeholders an important opportunity to help shape the future of virtual health care, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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