(Podcast) The Briefing: The Dark Side of Halloween – Unlicensed Costumes and the Legal Haunt
The Briefing: The Dark Side of Halloween – Unlicensed Costumes and the Legal Haunt
(Podcast) The Briefing: The Fall of SUPER HERO – When Trademarks Become Generic
The Briefing: The Fall of SUPER HERO – When Trademarks Become Generic
(Podcast) The Briefing: New California Laws for Digital Replicas Both Live and Dead
Discussing Sports, Sneaker Culture and Diversity
Wicked Coin: FIFA: Soccer, Scandal, and Sportswashing
The Current State of Web3 Gaming
(Podcast) The Briefing: Trump Train Derailed In “Electric Avenue” Copyright Lawsuit
The Briefing: Trump Train Derailed In “Electric Avenue” Copyright Lawsuit
Conversations With An NFL General Counsel
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 6 | Fielding the Future: Title IX and NIL
(Podcast) The Briefing: “Hold On” – You Can’t Use That Music in Your Presidential Campaign
NCAA Settlement Update — Highway to NIL Podcast
Title IX — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau vs. the Video Game Industry
(Podcast) The Briefing – Fake Reviews, Real Consequences: Consumer Review Dos and Don’ts
The Briefing – Fake Reviews, Real Consequences: Consumer Review Dos and Don’ts
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 5 | Higher Standards or Higher Stakes
(Podcast) The Briefing: Punchbowl News’ Trademark Win Despite Rogers Setback
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On October 24, 2024, the Cleveland Browns filed a preemptive lawsuit in the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, seeking a declaratory judgment to strike down Ohio’s “Modell Law” as unconstitutional. Such...more
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Halloween is a time for goblins, ghouls, and—if you’re an inventor—a whole lot of creative thinking! Among the cauldron of Halloween patents, one particularly clever design stands out: a patented method for decorating...more
Welcome to Season 4 of our NextGen Talks podcast series. In Episode 2, we are thrilled to welcome one of the world's leading big wave surfers, Freddy Olander. In our conversation, Freddy shares his incredible journey from a...more
On October 28, 2024, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling in Heckman v. Live Nation, finding Live Nation’s Ticketmaster arbitration agreement unconscionable and therefore unenforceable based on their terms...more
City Council Advances Arena Legislation - During Thursday’s meeting, City Council voted 11-5 to advance two largely procedural resolutions key to the development and construction of the Sixers’ proposed Center City arena....more
On October 28, 2024, The Sports Prophets Inc. (“Defendant”) was sued in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for allegedly violating the Internal Do Not Call (“DNC”) list compliance...more
Copyright law protects creative works that are “fixed in any tangible medium of expression”—but it is hard to imagine that the drafters of this language envisioned that the human body would become such a popular medium of...more
Halloween is here, but beware! That killer costume might come with a lawsuit instead of candy. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss the legal threats associated with unlicensed costumes on this spooky episode of The...more
A federal judge late Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to lock down UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium on the VA’s West Los Angeles campus at noon Thursday until the university comes up with a proposal for...more
Once upon a time in the Eastern District of New York, a cryptocurrency foundation, new owners of the sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” filed suit against the album’s former purchaser, Martin Shkreli,...more
The Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) held its monthly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. The meeting was hybrid with in-person accessibility at 160 N. LaSalle St., 5th Floor Auditorium and via livestream. Board members present at...more
In a much anticipated antitrust class action settlement, a federal judge granted preliminary approval of a $2.7 billion proposed settlement that will cap the amount of money National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)...more
Unless you live under a rock, your news feed has been dominated by the upcoming presidential election and opinions about the respective images and branding embodied by the candidates. What seems different this time is the...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has entered into a Consent Order with the Sahara Dunes Casino, doing business as the Lake Elsinore Hotel and Casino (“Lake Elsinore”). The Consent Order describes Lake...more
In 2023, visual artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a class action lawsuit against several Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies, alleging that the companies’ various AI models violated copyright...more
For more than half a century, Marvel Comics and DC Comics have jointly owned the trademark ‘Superhero.’ However, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently granted a petition to cancel that mark because it became generic....more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated a proposed class action by Michael Salazar against a professional sports organization on October 15, 2024, alleging violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act...more
Two years ago, the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition sparked controversy after awarding a blue ribbon to a work generated in part by A.I. Jason Allen, the artist responsible for the work, said at the time, “I won,...more
On October 14, 2024, Wake County Superior Court Judge A. Graham Shirley II signed an order granting a preliminary injunction that allows high school student-athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL). ...more