Columns & Departments
Entertainment Law & Finance Staff
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
Columns & Departments
Entertainment Law & Finance Staff
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
Features
Stan Soocher
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.
Features
Kat Black
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.
Features
Michelle Morgante
A 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.
Columns & Departments
Entertainment Law & Finance Staff
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
Columns & Departments
Entertainment Law & Finance Staff
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
Features
Stan Soocher
What 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.
Features
Amanda Bronstad
Keller 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).
Features
Lisa Willis
It’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.
