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  Breaking News: U.S. Supreme Court Buys Into Sports Betting in NJ and Beyond

  By Tony Mauro

  The justices in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association found the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act infringed on state sovereignty. The decision could transform sports and sports gambling from coast to coast.

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  NY High Court Sees Right of Publicity Claim in Avatars but Rules Against Celebrity Plaintiffs

  By Andrew Denney

  Legislature Considers Publicity Law Update

  Ruling in a matter of first impression, New York’s high court dismissed suits filed by Lindsay Lohan and the daughter of ex-mobster Sammy “The Bull” Gravano against the makers of Grand Theft Auto V, by disagreeing with the plaintiff's claims that characters in the game were intended to be their look-alikes.

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  Indiana Supreme Court to Decide Fantasy Sports Publicity Rights Issue

  By Stan Soocher

  The Supreme Court of Indiana accepted a certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit involving the interpretation of the state’s right-of-publicity statute.

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  Why Second Circuit Found No Fair Use in TVEyes Case

  By Crystal Genteman and Chris Bussert

  Only a small fraction of television news broadcasts are made available online. For a party to monitor and view all news coverage of an event, it would essentially have to watch and record all news broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That's exactly what media-monitoring service TVEyes did. Fox News filed suit against TVEyes, claiming copyright infringement of 19 of its hour-long programs and alleging that TVEyes would divert Fox News’s viewership and its ability to license its news clips to third parties.

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