LJN Newsletters

  • DMX Wins Battle over ASCAP for Direct Music Licensing

    Last July, Muzak competitor DMX and its Weil, Gotshal & Manges lawyers won a licensing fee ruling against Broadcast Music Inc. that had the potential to revolutionize the background music industry. Now the revolution continues: U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York has ruled that DMX must pay ASCAP a fee of only $13.74 to license ASCAP music in each of the 95,000 stores, restaurants and other locations that DMX supplies with background music. ASCAP wanted DMX to pay almost $50 per location.

    December 28, 2010Allison Frankel

  • Film Production Deal Ruled Separate from Marital Agreement

    Billionaire Ronald Perelman has to pay $4.3 million to a film company he formed with his ex-wife, Ellen Barkin, despite Perelman's claim that the actress' breach of the couple's separation agreement relieved him of his financial obligations to the company, the New York Appellate Division, First Department ruled.

    December 28, 2010Noeleen G. Walder

  • e-Commerce Bounces Back Strongly in Third Quarter

    Are Americans taking to heart the talk of politicians and some private-sector observers that the long-punishing economic and financial crisis that has put businesses into scrapbooks and people on the street is on the wane? The Census Bureau said recently that preliminary estimated U.S. retail e-commerce sales shot up 4% from the second quarter, tallying $41.5 billion.

    December 28, 2010Michael Lear-Olimpi

  • Supremes' 'No' on Tiffany Review Keeps Status Quo

    The upshot of the Second Circuit holding ' and the Supreme Court's denial to hear the appeal ' is that despite a general knowledge that a significant percentage of Tiffany goods sold on eBay were counterfeit, eBay did not have a duty to prevent any such sales, unless and until a specific instance of fraud was brought to its attention.

    December 28, 2010Janet Satterthwaite

  • Cyber Monday Explodes

    Little was virtual beyond a typical conversational reference to this holiday season's once-again record-setting Cyber Monday and other online-holiday shopping excursions. The retail-industry dubbed day for online shopping and incentives for consumers to cybershop hit the jackpot with an echoing boom Nov. 29, racking up the biggest day of online shopping in history and breaking the billion-dollar mark

    December 28, 2010Michael Lear-Olimpi

  • Computer and Funds Transfer Fraud Endorsements Issues in Data Breach Claims

    If your e-commerce company were to suffer a data breach, do you know that there is insurance coverage for related costs under some commercial crime-insurance policies? It is so. An Ohio federal court has held that a computer and funds transfer fraud endorsement in an AIG commercial-crime policy provides coverage for a data breach.

    December 28, 2010Scott N. Godes

  • NJ & CT News

    News from neighboring states.

    December 23, 2010ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • 'Pre-Nupitis' ' Diagnosis and Treatment

    Pre-nupitis" is a "disease" that afflicts the so-called less-monied spouse (the LMS) who, in upwards of 95% of the cases, is the bride-to-be.

    December 23, 2010Marcy L. Wachtel