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New Crop of Legal Developments In Music Celebrity Estate Battles

Stan Soocher

Legal disputes over artist’s estates have been a growing source of entertainment-industry litigation. This summer is proving to be a busy season for such litigations, with legal dustups related to the music-celebrity estates of “Margaritaville” icon Jimmy Buffett, Canadian singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen and blues legend Johnny Winter.

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‘Microtransactions’ Legal Issues In Online Video Games

Sid Kamaraju & Simon Pulman & Katherine Reilly & Aaron Wiltse

Online video games are a big business. A significant component of the money made by those in the online gaming businesses derives from “microtransactions”: players spending real-world money on in-game features and items. Online gaming platforms engaging in microtransactions must be aware that doing so may expose them to traditional white-collar crime issues.

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Ruling in Authors’ AI Suit Lays Out Cautionary Guidelines for Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in Similar Cases

Michael Gennaro

A federal judge handed Meta a major win in a closely watched copyright case over the use of books to train large language models (LLMs). But the ruling stopped well short of giving tech companies blanket protection to scrape creative works for artificial intelligence.

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Fresh Filings

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.

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Players On the Move

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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