PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Leverage Your IP - Residual Goodwill in Trademarks
The Briefing: About Face – Courts Weigh AI Face-Swapping Technology and Celebrity Rights
Can My Band Cover Another Famous Song? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 8 | Gambling and Harassment: Wyoming’s Game-Changing Ban
(Podcast) The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 2 (Archive)
The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 2 (Archive)
(Podcast) The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 1 (Archive)
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 12 - Redefining Online Gaming — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Why Did the World Wrestling Federation Become WWE? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
Can You Copyright AI-Generated Content? - On Record PR
Key Discovery Points: Lessons Learned from TikTok’s Redaction Fiasco
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 7 | Fair Game: Diving into Sports ADR
(Podcast) The Briefing: Based on a (NOT) True Story – The Baby Reindeer Defamation Case
The Briefing: Based on a (NOT) True Story – The Baby Reindeer Defamation Case
House Settlement Approval — Highway to NIL Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - IP and M&A Transactions
(Podcast) The Briefing: Millions at Stake – How 2 Live Crew Beat Bankruptcy to Reclaim Their Music
The Briefing: Millions at Stake – How 2 Live Crew Beat Bankruptcy to Reclaim Their Music
Why Did Taylor Swift Re-record Her Albums? – No Infringement Intended Podcast
Esports Fantasy Contests: Where We've Been, And Where We're Going
Change is inevitable. This sentiment resonates across the college sports landscape. Few, if any, would argue that the current model of college athletics is sustainable. While fans continue to tune in and March Madness remains...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded a district court’s dismissal of a claim of copyright infringement for kinetic and manipulable sculptures, finding that movable structures were sufficiently...more
In this week’s edition of Film Room, we break down two eleventh-hour actions taken by outgoing leadership: 1. a loud objection filed by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in the House case; and 2. a Fact...more
Executive Order 2024-08D, now codified, unequivocally asserts that the State of Ohio boasts the best postsecondary educational institutions and intercollegiate student-athletes in the country. The Ohio State University...more
Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of January 12-18. Here’s what’s...more
As a present to organized labor, the Los Angeles City Council voted to approve a draft of the “Olympic Wage Ordinance” that, when finalized, will have a profound impact on the City’s hotel industry--an industry experiencing...more
New York Senate Bill 7676B regulates contracts for the creation and use of digital replicas. This law took effect on January 1, 2025. The law defines “digital replica” as “a digital simulation of the voice or likeness of an...more
On this episode of the R&G Dugout podcast, Ropes & Gray asset management partners Amanda Persaud, Lindsey Goldstein, and Jon Rash explore the upsurge of private funds raising capital for investment in sports teams and...more
Drake has sued Universal Music Group NV for defamation in US federal court, accusing the company of putting his life in danger by releasing and promoting “Not Like Us” by his rival and labelmate Kendrick Lamar....more
Since platforms like Midjourney and DALL-E became popular, using text-to-image models to generate “AI art” has surged, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI-generated art and human-created works. This...more
On January 10, 2025, Judge Kenneth D. Bell of the United States Court for the Western District of North Carolina denied NASCAR’s motion to dismiss stock car racing team 23XI Racing’s (“plaintiff”) monopolization case against...more
As the new year begins, creative advertisers and marketers look for new ways to stay current and get ahead by capitalizing on trends. ...more
The Dartmouth Men’s Basketball team, represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 560, requested to withdraw its petition to unionize on December 31, 2024. The petition, approved by the National Labor...more
In Ryan v. X Corp., a Northern District of California court held that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunized X (formerly Twitter) against claims arising from suspension of a user’s account, notwithstanding...more
In this episode of Trending Now - An IP Podcast, Clinton Brannon and Janet Cho discuss residual goodwill in trademarks, including what it comprises and how it may be asserted....more
When do lines in a “diss track” become defamatory? That is the question the Southern District of New York may be called on to answer in the recently filed lawsuit by Rapper Aubrey “Drake” Graham against his publisher UMG...more
For the first time since NCAA Division I football student-athletes have had the opportunity to transfer schools, the winter window to enter the portal was reduced to 20 days from 30 days. The portal officially opened on...more
Art and collectibles, while beautiful and culturally significant, can pose significant estate planning challenges. At the time of death, these assets are subject to estate taxes based on their fair market value. Without...more
Athletic departments at NCAA member institutions must now consider whether their student-athletes who transferred from non-NCAA schools are eligible to play another season of college sports....more
There is a case currently playing out in the Southern District of New York, Major League Baseball Players Inc.,v. Underdog Sports, Inc. There is a common dynamic called out right there in the caption: One side is the “Major...more
Some works enter the public domain the moment they are created, such as the AI-generated images below. Others take their sweet time, so when they finally do arrive, it’s cause for celebration....more
On Jan. 16, 2025, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance regarding how it will analyze name, image and likeness (NIL) activity under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The...more
Welcome back to the Spotlight! This may (or may not) be the last weekend that TikTok is operational in the United States, with legislation due to come into effect on January 19, 2025 that would ban TikTok failing Chinese...more
In long-awaited guidance, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) officially confirmed what many Title IX practitioners and athletics administrators thought to be true: Title IX’s gender equity...more
This week, the City of Cleveland (the City) and the State of Ohio (the State) took several key actions in the battle to prevent the Cleveland Browns from relocating to a domed facility in Brook Park, Ohio. On January 14,...more