Attorney Fees Award Reversed in 'Independent Creditor's' Suit Against Video Distributor<br>Prevailing Defendant Can Get Attorney Fees, Whether or Not Plaintiff Has Registered Copyright in Dispute<br>Summary Judgment Denied on Whether Distribution Cease-and-Desist Letters Are Privileged

Three top Am Law 100 listed firms have advised on Apollo Global Management's $510 million announced acquisition of U.S. entertainment company CKX, owner of television shows like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance.

The economic downturn that began in 2008 has been called a "100-year flood" for the legal profession. Layoffs, downsizing and even disappearing firms became common as lawyers sought to survive. The entertainment bar looked for workable survival strategies, too. This article focuses on a law firm that, with income shrinking, nevertheless increased its entertainment practice as a way to stabilize and grow.

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Not all file-sharing websites are created equal, according to U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S District Court for the District of Washington.

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What's at issue is control, obviously, and the great lengths to which some will go to maintain it, even as they benefit from the wide-open, free-flowing viral information torrent of the Internet.

To what extent does a foreign country's copyright law affect infringement litigation in the United States? Federal district courts in California and Virginia recently considered different aspects of this issue.

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One thing to do when hiring a celebrity endorser is to be certain the contract includes a "morals clause" that permits termination of a contract if the endorser decides to use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc., to tweet, post or upload offensive comments and materials. Know, however, that celebrity agents are very careful not to let contracts be terminated for bad behavior.

The Seventh Circuit's decision in <i>Paloian v. LaSalle Bank, N.A. (In re Doctors Hospital of Hyde Park Inc.)</i> sheds some new and perhaps disturbing light on the use of special purpose entity structures in corporate finance and also has implications for attorneys who deliver opinions to support transactions involving SPEs.