This round of Law360's review of emerging copyright and trademark issues looks at the ripple effects from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on secondary copyright liability and highlights looming high court bids over "Top Gun" and Roberto Clemente's likeness on commemorative license plates.
This round of Law360's review of emerging copyright and trademark issues looks at the ripple effects from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on secondary copyright liability and highlights looming high court bids over "Top Gun" and Roberto Clemente's likeness on commemorative license plates.
A Black police officer asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case alleging he was fired out of race bias, claiming the Sixth Circuit was too quick to accept the argument that rap videos he posted online were the reason for his termination.
A Florida federal magistrate judge on Wednesday denied President Donald Trump's request that she recuse herself from overseeing discovery in his $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC, ruling he waived his right to ask for recusal by waiting over five months to do so.
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday declined to block the Trump administration's proposed $1.8 billion "lawfare" fund, crediting statements from Attorney General Todd Blanche and other U.S. Department of Justice lawyers last week that the fund was dead.
A New York federal judge Wednesday set a February trial date for former Miami Heat player Terry Rozier over newly enhanced allegations accusing him and others of tipping gamblers with lucrative prop bet information, amid a $26 million fight with the NBA that hinges on his bail conditions.
A lifestyle content creator has sued body-inclusivity-oriented underwear company EBY Inc., claiming that while she had agreed to be a brand ambassador, the company used artificial intelligence to create a "deepfake" version of her and then used it to post a video where she appeared partially nude.
An attorney for entertainment trade publication Variety urged a California appellate panel Wednesday to end Francis Ford Coppola's libel suit over a story suggesting he sexually harassed actresses on the set of his "Megalopolis" movie, saying a trial judge erred when he declined to toss the suit on First Amendment grounds.
College athletes urged a California federal magistrate judge Wednesday to find their deals with multimedia rights companies and third-party brand sponsors aren't subject to oversight by the College Sports Commission, a new entity created following the NCAA's landmark $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement.
Meta Platforms Inc. and Google cannot overturn a landmark verdict finding them liable for harming the mental health of a young woman who says she became addicted to their social media platforms as a child, a Los Angeles judge has ruled.
Irish technology consulting company Accenture PLC on Tuesday pressed a California federal judge to nix proposed class claims brought by WhatsApp users alleging privacy violations or send the matter to arbitration, as the users said that they will fight to at least keep certain state law claims in court.
A former IT project manager, Walt Disney's theme park design arm and a staffing firm have agreed to resolve the worker's lawsuit alleging the companies failed to pay him overtime wages, according to a mediation report filed in Florida federal court.
A proposed class of Zillow Group Inc. shareholders accused the property listings company of making an anticompetitive noncompete agreement with rival Redfin Corp., which caused the federal government to file an antitrust suit and Zillow's common stock value to drop.
The Federal Communications Commission has come through and granted NCTA — The Internet & Television Association members a waiver allowing them to make changes to foreign-made routers after granting similar permission to telecom titan AT&T.
Rural internet service providers want the Federal Communications Commission to make sure only companies posing known risks are barred from interconnecting high-speed networks as the FCC looks to expand a national security program.
The Federal Communications Commission has started the process of pulling U.S. certification from an equipment testing lab based in China that the agency claims submitted false test reports for devices by copying other reports.
The Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance concerning the Take It Down Act suggests that covered platforms should build removal systems immediately and prioritize compliance, but until courts or regulators provide additional clarity, companies will be navigating a statutory framework that is urgent and uncertain, says Laura-Kate Bernstein at ZwillGen.
A California appeals court's recent decision in Rademacher v. ABC, rejecting a "General Hospital" actor's suit alleging he was terminated for opposing a vaccine policy, demonstrates the importance of the employer's process, including neutral policies, documentation, and evidence of who knew what and when, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.
An Indonesian widow is suing Podhurst Orseck PA and one of its attorneys in Illinois federal court, alleging they failed to keep her informed or get her all the money she was entitled to in a $4 million settlement with Boeing over the fatal crash of Lion Air Flight 610.
More litigation boutiques are joining the growing number of firms raising their base salaries for associates, with Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC exceeding the scale Susman Godfrey LLP set earlier this week.
The leader of a group of Massachusetts attorneys who stopped taking court-appointed cases last year over what they say are inadequate hourly rates on Thursday slammed a state inspector general's highly critical report on the state's indigent defense system as "myopic."
The Florida Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro after his conviction in Georgia's election interference racketeering case was eventually cleared by a court order invalidating the charge.
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he's nominating Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be director of national intelligence.
A law firm recently accused of running a volume-driven immigration filing mill claimed in a new lawsuit in Ohio federal court that three attorneys and a TikTok personality orchestrated a social media campaign falsely accusing it of visa fraud as a way to poach its clients.
A suburban Detroit district judge violated court rules by withholding a court-ordered psychological evaluation report and repeatedly mistreating court staff, a retired judge serving as a neutral in disciplinary proceedings found, while rejecting several other claims of misconduct.
A Michigan law firm's bid to toss a proposed class action alleging that it allowed a cybersecurity breach that exposed its clients' personal and medical information was denied Thursday by a federal judge who also granted the lead plaintiff's request to amend his complaint.
