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TikTok Dances Around Another Copyright Infringement Suit

Angela Morris

The Texas lawsuit alleged that the social video app and parent company ByteDance Ltd. copied software code, and deleted or altered copyright management information in the code, and then used the code in the app that has 175 million downloads.

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Don Everly Prevails Over Late Brother Phil's Family Following Trial on Authorship of Everly Brothers' 1960 Hit "Cathy's Clown" Split Decision on Secondary Liability Claims Against Harry Fox Agency in Music Licensing Lawsuit Over Spotify Streaming of Eminem Compositions

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When Does Content of a Debtor's Bar Date Notice Satisfy Due Process?

Francis J. Lawall & Kenneth A. Listwak

The Third Circuit recently examined whether the content of a debtor's bar date notice satisfied due process, so as to discharge unknown litigation creditors' claims against the company after confirmation of the debtor's Chapter 11 plan of reorganization.

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New York Federal District Court Dismisses Investor Lawsuit Over Tencent Music IPO

Stan Soocher

In December 2018, China-based titan Tencent Music Entertainment launched a U.S. initial public offering (IPO). But the IPO resulted in an investor's class action suit alleging TME violated federal securities laws. This is part of a trend of increasing such securities suits against foreign companies, though the U.S.

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Drafting a Fair Force Majeure Provision In the Wake of COVID-19

Scott R. Lippert & Darcy Baboulis-Gyscek

Only a handful cases have addressed force majeure clauses in commercial real estate agreements in the wake of the pandemic, which has produced conflicting views as to whether performance was excused.

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Retail Lease Workout Trends Show 'We're All In This Together'

David Samole

There have been plenty of cases during the pandemic that shape the landlord-commercial tenant dynamic both in Chapter 11 bankruptcies and in workouts.

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Legal Triggers In NFT Crypto Craze

Michael A. Mora & Alaina Lancaster

The latest cryptocurrency craze has litigators closely watching from the sidelines. Buyers of digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are ready to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes more, but when disputes start to hit the scene, litigators said there is little to no case law as precedent.

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Supreme Court on APIs and Fair Use

Scott Graham

Google didn't get an answer from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) it copied from Sun Microsystems were copyrightable. But it got just about everything else it could have hoped for in a decision that ended its 11-year copyright clash with Sun's successor, Oracle.

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New Normal Will See Shift In How Commercial Real Estate Is Done

Aron Solomon

By moving away from demand for traditional offices and office space, employers will be able to select from a much broader range of talent and a much greater geographical range of places to find and use these employees.

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Appellate Division Overturns Supreme Court Order to Partially Demolish 55-Story Building Image

Appellate Division Overturns Supreme Court Order to Partially Demolish 55-Story Building

Paul D. Selver & James P. Power

In Committee for Environmentally Sound Development ("CESD") v. Amsterdam Ave. Redevelopment Associates LLC, the Appellate Division, First Department, overturned a Supreme Court decision that would have required partial demolition of a nearly completed 55-story building at 200 Amsterdam Avenue.

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