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Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

An emerging market trend ' language-based knowledge extraction ' holds the promise of greater strategic insight, improved efficiencies and cost-saving advantages during document review. Knowledge extraction achieves the objective of identifying relevant documents and understanding what those documents actually say at the beginning of the review process as opposed to the end.

Naming Non-Party Witness as Defendant Leads to Disqualification of Copyright Plaintiff's Counsel

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Online Infringement/Class Action Issues<br>Trademark Infringement/Fictional Products<br>True-Life Depictions/In TV Programs

This is the second in an ongoing series of articles that provide franchise attorneys with practical advice about conducting arbitrations.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied the Effie film production company's bid for attorney fees and costs in its declaratory action against author Eve Pomerance over the parties' scripts about relationships among three famous art-world figures.

Historical facts are the essence of fictionalized 'true stories' as well as non-fiction historical accounts. But authors who dip into the bowl of history to prepare their own creative works must accept that facts are not protectible under copyright. This exclusion applies equally to the facts in a fictionalized or fictional narrative as well as to non-fiction history.

In a case of first impression, a split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit restored a cause of action by a former college football player who says his likeness was appropriated without his consent for use in a video game.