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The Briefing: 2025 IP Resolutions Start With a Review of IP Assets (Featured)
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(Podcast) The Briefing: A Very Patented Christmas – The Quirkiest Inventions for the Holiday Season (Featured)
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The Briefing: Nudity Riders, Consent, and the Terrifier Lawsuit: What Producers Must Know
Podcast - Art, Law and the Athlete: Protecting Equine Imagery in the Studio and Market
Is My Private TV Stream a Public Performance? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
The Briefing: The Man In Black v. Coca Cola: The New Soundalike Showdown
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 6 – Sports Wagering, Player Proposition Bets, and Prediction Market Battles — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
The Briefing: What Is Fair Use and Why Does It Matter? (Featured)
(Podcast) The Briefing: What Is Fair Use and Why Does It Matter? (Featured)
The Briefing – Soup for Change: Campbell’s Sues a Congressional Candidate
From Stairway to Sailing: Can Trade Dress Protect Iconic Guitar Designs? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
Podcast - One Sport, One Rulebook: A Conversation with the CEO of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority
(Podcast) The Briefing: Reboot or Not? The Battle Between ER’s Creator and Warner Bros Hits the Court of Appeal
Maximizing Revenue: The Future of College Sports Media Rights in a Post-House World — Highway to NIL Podcast
When Consent Isn’t Enough – The TTAB’s Decision in In re Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla
For sports fans, January is usually a pretty fun month. To borrow from a great (non-sports-related) movie, it’s Everything Everywhere All at Once. You’ve got the NFL Playoffs, the College Football Playoff, and regular-season...more
Keith Fullenweider is Chair of Vinson & Elkins and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He maintains an active practice with private equity firms and their portfolio companies on their investments, financings, and...more
After decades of minimal federal activity, the Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act (SPARTA) is drawing renewed attention. A January 2026 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) inquiry into sports agent practices may signal a...more
On January 8, the College Sports Commission (CSC) issued guidance in direct response to a recent news report from Yahoo Sports that examined college football student-athletes being offered third-party NIL deals that violate...more
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent a clear signal to the sports industry: Compliance with the Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act (SPARTA) is back on the enforcement radar....more
Two January 2026 decisions from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit confirm that copyright infringement requires substantial similarity in protectable expression, proven through both extrinsic and intrinsic tests....more
The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing an appeal by computer scientist Stephen Thaler, who argues AIgenerated works should qualify for copyright protection, contrary to the U.S. Copyright Office’s stance that only human-authored...more
Join Bricker Graydon Wyatt’s K–12 Athletics Team for an Athletics Symposium! Spend more than two hours with leading school law and athletics experts—including special guest Ron Sayers from OHSAA—as we take a deep dive into...more
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Following his panel on music catalog deals at the LA IP/Entertainment Conference, Derek Crownover, vice chair of the firm’s Music Industry group, shares his insider perspective on the evolving music catalog market and how it...more
Maine will soon offer internet gaming, with a focus on creating economic opportunities for the Wabanaki Nations and other federally recognized tribes in the state. More than a year after the Legislature introduced a...more
Last week, the College Sports Commission (CSC) issued two key announcements, one regarding the impact of new scholarships on the institutional cap and the other reiterating rules and approach to third-party NIL in light of...more
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On this episode of Talking Sports Law, host Trevor Gates and co-host John Wilson are joined by Guiselle Torres, General Counsel for Denver Summit FC. In her second appearance on Talking Sports Law, Guiselle shares insight...more
*Please note that this was filmed at the end of 2025* On the fourth episode of "The Tack Room," Partners Kayla Pragid and Elizabeth Craddock and Public Affairs Advisor Tori Deal bring insight into the fast-moving state and...more
The National Football League has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether its arbitration process, overseen by the commissioner, complies with federal law, appealing a Second Circuit ruling in favor of a coach suing the...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the jury’s verdict in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, et al. in a January 2, 2026, precedential opinion, finding that the allegedly infringing works were fair use. ...more
When is arbitration not “arbitration” under the FAA? In August 2025, a federal appeals court ruled that race discrimination claims brought by Brian Flores, former head coach of the Miami Dolphins, should not be...more
They say that sports can teach people many lessons about life, and perhaps that’s true; but lately it’s been giving compliance officers unexpected lessons about how to run compliance programs. This fall we saw two...more
Welcome back to the Spotlight! If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to delve into the uber-interesting sports and entertainment business world with a witty bent, congratulations, you are on the right track! If one of...more
In suit claiming 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick infringed 1983 magazine article about real-life fighter pilot training program that inspired original 1986 Top Gun film, Ninth Circuit affirms summary judgment in defendants’...more
It’s a classic clash of collegiate titans—Baylor University versus Boston University—but this time it’s over those deceptively simple letters “B-U.” This isn’t just alphabet soup; it’s a multi-count federal lawsuit that dives...more
On January 6, 2025, University of Washington standout quarterback Demond Williams announced that he plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal just four days after reportedly signing a contract with Washington football for the...more
Clover, SC — Shumaker has achieved a federal victory for artistic integrity, with a judge awarding a Clover, S.C. artist $158,400, including maximum Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) damages, in a case reaffirming the power of...more