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Latest News in Media & Entertainment
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September 17, 2025
Disney's $233M Deal In Living Wage Suit Gets Final OK
A California state court has granted final approval of Walt Disney Co.'s $233 million settlement with more than 51,000 Disneyland workers who accused the entertainment company of flouting the city of Anaheim's minimum wage ordinance, handing the workers' lawyers $35 million in attorney fees.
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September 17, 2025
Live Nation Unit Sues Biz Partners Over Fla. Music Venue
A Live Nation subsidiary and majority owner of a prominent Miami club has sued its business partners over a music venue's operation in Florida federal court, alleging they became greedy and reneged on a carefully negotiated mediation agreement, resulting in a potential loss of millions of dollars and reputational damage.
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September 17, 2025
Movie Chain Shakes Privacy Row Over Meta Data-Sharing
A New York federal judge tossed a proposed class action accusing Bow Tie Cinemas of illegally sharing movie ticket buyers' personal information with Facebook parent Meta, finding a recent Second Circuit decision on what qualifies as data covered by the Video Privacy Protection Act was "fatal" to the plaintiff's claims.
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September 17, 2025
Colo. Judge Won't Toss Trans Pilot's Defamation Claim
A Colorado federal judge Wednesday opted to not throw out the complaint of a transgender Army National Guard pilot who accused a conservative social media influencer of defamation when he claimed to his followers that she was the pilot who caused the deadly collision over the Potomac River that killed 67 people earlier this year, and that she did it as an intentional terrorist attack.
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September 17, 2025
'It Doesn't Look Good': CoComelon Foe Faces Uphill IP Fight
Ninth Circuit panel judges doubted Wednesday a Chinese company's appeal of its $23.4 million copyright-trial loss to the maker of the children's YouTube channel CoComelon, with one judge telling counsel "it doesn't look good for you," and another observing he's "never seen copying evidence quite as compelling as this record."
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