Sports leagues and competitions’ market clout and the increasing consolidation of sports content-streaming companies have recently spawned several civil antitrust actions aimed at reining in these market powers.
February 01, 2025Stan Soocher
A California federal court rejected music streaming platform Musi’s request for a preliminary injunction against Apple, after Apple removed the Musi app from Apple’s app store due to copyright infringement concerns.
February 01, 2025Kat BlackA partial agreement that music publishers reached with Anthropic PBC requires the Amazon-backed artificial intelligence company to implement “guardrails” around its use of copyrighted song lyrics to train its flagship product Claude.
February 01, 2025Michelle MorganteNotable recent court filings in entertainment law.
February 01, 2025Entertainment Law & Finance StaffA look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
February 01, 2025Entertainment Law & Finance StaffWhat happens when a business manager gets involved in a dispute with one of the artist’s other advisers? A recent example is the litigation between the longtime business manager for rapper Nelly and a longtime consultant who has provided a range of services to the artist that include marketing and promotion, managing Nelly’s touring business, and seeking endorsement deals.
January 01, 2025Stan SoocherKeller Postman’ alleges that Jenner & Block hired a former FBI special agent to interview class members who had opted out of a $19.99 million settlement with Tubi to arbitrate their claims. The fight began earlier this year as Tubi was negotiating a class action settlement in a 2023 case brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging the streaming service sold subscriber data to third parties without the consent of its users in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
January 01, 2025Amanda BronstadIt’s back to court for rapper Tramar Dillard, who goes by the stage name Flo Rida, after the Florida Court of Appeals, Fourth District, ruled that a Broward trial court judge erred in his jury instructions when awarding $82.6 million in a breach of contract lawsuit against the makers of Celsius energy drinks in January 2023.
January 01, 2025Lisa WillisThe Internet Archive has stopped defending its free digital library against a publisher-launched copyright lawsuit and announced that it won’t ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the depository is a fair use of the plaintiff publishers’ copyrights.
January 01, 2025Alyssa AquinoNotable recent court filings in entertainment law.
January 01, 2025Entertainment Law & Finance Staff
