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Advertising Law -- Jan 31, 2013

In This Issue: California’s “Best Practices” for Mobile Apps Draw Criticism from Ad Groups; FTC Settles First FCRA Suit Involving Mobile Apps; Sony Settles Suit with Actor from PlayStation Ads; Court: Twitter Terms Not a...more

Challenge To Alleged Restraints On Baseball And Hockey Programming Survive Motion To Dismiss And Advance To The Next Round Of...

Have you ever been away from home when your favorite baseball or hockey team is playing an important game? Ever wished you could watch that game, and just that game, live while you are on the road? If plaintiffs in Laumann v....more

IP Buzz - September 2012

In this issue: - Fashionistas Rejoice! Second Circuit Orders Win/Win For Loubotin and Yves St. Laurent - Plant Patents — What is an uncultivated state? - Protecting the Look & Feel of Artworks, Maybe - Not...more

Manwin Licensing International S.A.R.L., et al. v. ICM Registry, LLC, et al.

Counterclaims of ICM Registry, LLC, d/b/a .XXX (Demand for Jury Trial)

Counterclaims of ICM Registry, LLC, d/b/a .XXX v. Manwin Licensing International S.A.R.L., et al. filed by Cross-Complainant in case number CV 11-9514 PSG (JCGx) of the USDC for the CD of CA on September 28, 2012. ...more

CRTC Rejects Challenge to CBC Music

On August 14, 2012, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released Broadcasting Decision 2012-442, in which it rejected the argument advanced by Stingray Digital Group that the CBC, in...more

Manwin Licensing International S.A.R.L., et al. v. ICM Registry, LLC, et al.

Court Order GRANTING in Part and DENYING in Part the Motions to Dismiss

Proceedings: (In Chambers) Order GRANTING in Part and DENYING in Part the Motions to Dismiss - The Honorable Philip S. Gutierrez, United States District Judge. ----- Since this Court's Order was issued back in August of...more

Advertising Law -- August 9, 2012

In This Issue: Uniform Ads a Slam Dunk for NBA Teams; FTC Asked to Investigate Gatorade “Flu Game” Ad How Did Kirstie Alley Lose 100lbs? False Ad Suit Claims It Wasn’t Diet Drug; California, Feds Up the Pressure on...more

IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update for Motion Picture Studios and Television Networks -- July 5, 2012

In This Issue: Washington v. National Football League, USDC Minnesota, June 13, 2012 *District court grants NFL’s motion to dismiss class action filed by former football players alleging that, by not allowing the...more

Sirius XM Brings Law Suit Against SoundExchange Alleging Collusion to Stop Direct Licensing of Music - Impact on Royalties?

SiriusXM announced that is has filed a legal action, including antitrust claims, against SoundExchange and A2IM (the American Association of Independent Music - the association of independent record labels), charging,...more

DoJ Reverses Position on Scope of Wire Wager Act

On December 23, 2011, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (the “OLC”) released an opinion that the Wire Wager Act (18 U.S.C. § 1084) applies only to interstate transmissions of wire communications that relate...more

Competition between Competition & IPR Laws

An overview of the conflicts between Competition Act, 2002 and various Intellectual Property legislation and business / industry sector regulations....more

IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update For Motion Picture Studios And Television Networks - June 8, 2011

Table of Contents: •Global-Tech Appliances, Inc., et al. v. SEB S.A. •Brantley v. NBC Universal Global-Tech Appliances, Inc., et al. v. SEB S.A., US Supreme Court, May 31, 2011 •In a patent infringement case, the...more

Ip/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update For Motion Picture Studios And Television Networks - May 11, 2011

Table of Contents • In Re NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Litigation • Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC In Re NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Litigation, USDC N.D. California, May 2, 2011 • Court...more

Pandora Gets Subpoena About Mobile App - Privacy, the Next Big Issue for Digital Media Companies

As broadcasters pursue their digital future, new legal issues arise to greet their entry into the on-line world and to add to the challenges posed by the new media. Over the last few years, we’ve have written extensively...more

Advertising Law Newsletter - April 08, 2011

In this issue: Manatt to Participate in the ACCA-SoCal Inaugural Entertainment & Sports Law MCLE Seminar; Manatt Attorneys to Provide Insight on False Advertising Litigation Strategies at ACI Conference; Privacy Developments:...more

Volume 6 Issue 3 Winter 2011

SEATTLE--University of Washington School of Law today published the Winter 2011 issue of the new Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, the nation’s first student-run electronic law journal focusing on technology,...more

The LimeWire Decision: Can Legal Precedent Keep Up With the Internet Age?

The latest copyright infringement decision has emerged against LimeWire, the immensely popular file-sharing client. Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found LimeWire was liable...more

Supreme Court Reaffirms Conspiracy Risks Of Joint Ventures

On May 24, 2010, the United States Supreme Court held, in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, et al., that the NFL, its teams, and intra-league ventures, are not a single enterprise for the purposes of Section...more

Supreme Court Applies “Functional Analysis” to Determine Joint Venture Is Not a “Single Entity” Immune from Antitrust Liability

In American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, 560 U.S. __ (2010), the Supreme Court unanimously held that teams in the National Football League and a corporate entity that they formed to manage their intellectual...more

American Needle: Supreme Court Finds the NFL's Intellectual Property Licensing to Involve "Concerted Action" Subject to the...

SUMMARY OF DECISION In American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, the Supreme Court held that that the NFL’s conduct relating to the licensing of the teams’ trademarks and other intellectual property constitutes...more

American Needle v. National Football League: NFL Can Be Liable For Conspiring Under Section 1 Of Sherman Act

In a decision that was highly anticipated by antitrust lawyers and sports enthusiasts alike, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the National Football League (NFL) teams were not immune from liability for...more

Supreme Court Refuses to Insulate NFL Joint Venture from Antitrust Scrutiny

On May 24, 2010, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in American Needle, Inc. v. NFL. A unanimous Court, speaking through Justice Stevens in the last antitrust opinion of his illustrious career, held that...more

Supreme Court Weighs Single Entity Treatment for Pro Sports Leagues

On January 13, 2010, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in American Needle v. National Football League, Case No. 08-661, which concerns whether the teams belonging to the National Football League should be treated as a...more

Shades of Gray: the Internet Market of Copyrighted Goods and the First Sale Doctrine

In light of the recent John Wiley & Sons Inc. v. Kirtsaeng, 654 F.3d 210 (2nd Cir. 2011) and the possibility that the Supreme Court grant certiorari and finally settle the parallel imports controversy, here is an article...more

Advertising Law - September 23, 2009

IN THIS ISSUE: *Manatt Adds Advertising Partner Terri Seligman in New York *FCC Launches Probe of Wireless Industry *Court Throws Out Sanctions Against Kevin Trudeau *Court OKs Paris Hilton’s “Hot” Suit Against...more