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IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update for Motion Picture Studios and Television Networks - May 10, 2013

by Meg Charendoff, Tal Dickstein, W. Allan Edmiston, David Grossman, Jonathan Neil Strauss, Jonathan Zavin | Loeb & Loeb LLP on 5/10/2013

Dunn v. DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., California Court of Appeal, April 30, 2013 (unpublished opinion) - California Court of Appeal affirms judgment in favor of defendant DreamWorks Animation on plaintiff’s breach of...more

IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update for Motion Picture Studios and Television Networks -- February 22, 2013

by Jonathan Zavin | Loeb & Loeb LLP on 2/22/2013

In This Issue: - Hallford v. Fox Entertainment Group: District court grants defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s copyright infringement claim, finding that defendants’ television show Touch is not substantially...more

February 2013: Entertainment Litigation Update

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 2/21/2013

Second Circuit Steers Away from Strict Copyright Protection in the Photography Arena. According to well-known photographer Janine Gordon, rival photographer Ryan McGinley copied more than 150 of Ms. Gordon’s contemporary...more

Who Owns Cute Girls in Pink Coats on Daddy’s Shoulders?

by Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger... on 2/7/2013

The Beatles crossing Abbey Road. A nurse and sailor kissing in Times Square as the end of World War II is announced. An African vulture patiently waiting for a starving toddler to die. The 1968 Olympics Black Power salute....more

Thin Copyrights - Protected But Not Infringed

by Edwin Komen | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/28/2013

Some appellate decisions are worth examining because they plow new ground. Others serve to explain the ground that was plowed. This decision – dealing with substantial similarity (or lack thereof) between two sets of stick...more

Dissecting Mr. Rockefeller: First Circuit Rejects Copyright Infringement Claim Based on Unoriginal Elements of News Photograph

by David Kluft | Foley Hoag LLP - Trademark, Copyright &... on 1/18/2013

Clark Rockefeller, aka Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, lived a double life until his conviction for child abduction in 2009. He was subsequently charged with an unrelated murder in California, and that trial is set to begin...more

Speaking Of . . . Copyrights | Did Avatar Rip Off Bats And Butterflies? California Court Says No.

by Walter Judge | Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC on 12/19/2012

Misunderstood heroes. Space travel. Alien worlds. Humanoids. Greed. Imperialism. Violence. Exploitation. Intercultural war. Redemption. And Copyright Infringement? Everyone’s seen the movie Avatar. How many...more

Non-Probationary Employee Not Proper Comparator For Probationary Employee, Third Circuit Holds

by Mark Diana, Ryan T. Warden | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/16/2012

In Mercado v. Donahoe, No. 11-2972, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 13226, (3rd Cir. June 26, 2012), the plaintiff, a probationary part-time employee, sued his employer alleging that he had been discriminated against on the basis of his...more

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