Former NBA player Chris “Birdman” Andersen has settled a legal malpractice lawsuit with his attorney, whom Andersen claimed failed to protect his intellectual property and ruined his in-laws’ creperie business.
Rock star Elvis Presley’s estate and music rights holders sued artificial intelligence music generator Suno on Friday in a California court for unlawfully using the entertainer’s name, image and likeness and infringing on copyrighted material.
A unanimous California appeals court on Wednesday found that medical TV shows ER and The Pitt have enough similarities that a lawsuit alleging that The Pitt is an unauthorized rebranded version of ER can move forward.
Legendary musician Neil Young is suing President Donald Trump for $10 million over his use of song “Rockin’ in the Free World” at a midterm election rally in Ohio in early October.
The music publisher for the late R&B and soul singer Bill Withers is suing several record companies and others, claiming that singer-songwriter Olivia Dean’s “I’ve Seen It” infringes on the melody of Withers’ classic song “Just the Two of Us,” according to Law360.
Lisa E. Davis, a Black lawyer and a partner who chairs the entertainment group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz in New York, has represented artists including documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson and actor Wendell Pierce. She’s also the author of Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited—and the Fight to Retake Control. The ABA Journal spoke with Davis about her new book and what readers can learn from it.
Hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa have asked an appellate court to reinstate their copyright reclamation lawsuit against their record label and to “push it” back to the trial judge.
A federal district judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an actress accusing director James Cameron of misappropriating her likeness for his Avatar film franchise.
A trade group for in-house counsels is suing a rival, alleging that it misused the group’s copyrighted materials to train its own artificial intelligence chatbot, according to Reuters.
A group of general counsels and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati have joined forces to launch a new venture capital fund dedicated to investing in legal technology startups.
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