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Estate of Notorious B.I.G.’s Mother Seeks Proceeds from Sale of Her Son’s Music Catalog
July 31, 2025
After an ongoing battle to gain proceeds from a major sale of The Notorious B.I.G.’s music catalog, a lawsuit from his mother’s estate makes perfectly clear what it wants from his widow Faith Evans: More money, fewer problems.
Players On the Move
July 31, 2025
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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July 31, 2025
35th Annual Entertainment Law Institute
Players On the Move
June 30, 2025
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
Fresh Filings
June 30, 2025
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
Ruling in Authors’ AI Suit Lays Out Cautionary Guidelines for Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in Similar Cases
June 30, 2025
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.
‘Microtransactions’ Legal Issues In Online Video Games
June 30, 2025
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.
New Crop of Legal Developments In Music Celebrity Estate Battles
June 30, 2025
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.
Divided Over Damages: Courts Split On Whether Failure to Mark Precludes All, or Only Some, Pre-Suit Damages
May 31, 2025
Only a few district courts have addressed the failure to mark in recent years — but they’ve reached directly opposing conclusions. This article analyzes the conflicting authorities and their reasoning, and it provides guidance to litigants on best practices given the conflict between district courts.
Second Circuit Ruling on Copyright Fair Use Defense and Infringement Lawsuit Default Judgments
May 31, 2025
In copyright litigation, an infringement defendant may claim fair use as an affirmative defense. But the Second Circuit recently ruled that a district court, on its own initiative, could raise a fair use defense for a defendant that hadn’t appeared in the case.

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