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We get AI for work™: New Efforts to Ensure a National AI Policy
The Briefing: Why Lady Gaga Beat a Trademark Injunction Over “Mayhem”
Beyond the Deals: Student-Athlete Identity, Development, and NIL With 42U's Stephen Bienko — Highway to NIL Podcast
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The Briefing: Top Gun Cleared for Takeoff: The Ninth Circuit Affirms Paramount’s Copyright Win
The Briefing: The 2026 Forecast: Resolving Some of the Entertainment Industry’s Open Legal Issues
Podcast - 2025 Equine Policy Recap and What to Watch in 2026
The Briefing: 2025 IP Resolutions Start With a Review of IP Assets (Featured)
The JustPod: Prison Artist Mark Loughney Discusses Creating Art from Prison
The Briefing: New York Times v. Perplexity AI: Copyright, Hallucinations, and Trademark Risk
The Briefing: A Very Patented Christmas – The Quirkiest Inventions for the Holiday Season (Featured)
(Podcast) The Briefing: A Very Patented Christmas – The Quirkiest Inventions for the Holiday Season (Featured)
(Podcast) The Briefing: Nudity Riders, Consent, and the Terrifier Lawsuit: What Producers Must Know
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)
Courts Begin to Draw Lines Around AI Training, Piracy, and Market Harm - In 2025, U.S. courts issued the first substantive, merits-stage decisions addressing whether the use of copyrighted works to train generative artificial...more
Counsel for an ex-Morgan Stanley investment adviser accused of defrauding pro athletes out of millions of dollars leaned hard on former NBA player Chandler Parsons in cross-examination after he testified against his onetime...more
In this article we take a look at what to expect in 2026 in the area of AI and UK copyright, including key judgments, legislative proposals and other developments on the horizon....more
Olympic and Paralympic intellectual property is subject to robust protection under Italian and international law. Brands that engage with the Games through authorised partnerships can fully leverage their commercial value,...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the district court’s judgment in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, a closely watched copyright infringement case involving famed tattoo artist Kat Von D and a photograph of...more
The holidays may have been a time for many of us to relax, but the legal teams in the gaming industry certainly stayed busy. Tencent’s Light of Motiram Goes Dark in Settlement - We’ve been following the proceedings in...more
In the NIL era of college sports, athletes are moving fast: launching personal brands, apparel, and merchandise, while attention is high. Speed matters. But when a brand name feels instantly familiar, that familiarity can...more
In this crossover episode, Regulatory Oversight host Stephen Piepgrass teams up with Payments Pros host Keith Barnett to unpack how prediction markets, gaming, and payments intersect in a rapidly evolving and legally...more
Since 2021, college sports have charted a new course, one in which participants can enjoy the spoils of the billion-dollar industry that college sports have become. This journey was born of individual states granting student...more
Welcome back to the Spotlight! Sports and entertainment junkies rejoice, for this weekend not only marks the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan/Cortina Italy, but there is also a pretty big (dare I say,...more
The United States Fifth Circuit recently reversed a district court ruling awarding attorney’s fees to a former NFL player seeking disability benefits from the NFL Player Retirement Plan in Cloud v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL...more
The second half of 2025 involved significant legal and regulatory activity across fantasy sports, event contracts, sweepstakes casinos and sports betting. The period was marked by a steady stream of new rulings, enforcement...more
Q: Why do companies refer to the Super Bowl as The Big Game in their advertising? A: Because the Super Bowl is trademarked, but The Big Game is not. Of course news outlets can use either term under the fair use doctrine,...more
Unrivaled is a 3-on-3 basketball league founded by WNBA superstars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. The league has attracted many established WNBA stars, like Ms. Stewart, as well as up-and-coming young players like...more
The Olympic Games’ intellectual properties (“Olympic Properties”) are broadly protected worldwide, including the rings symbol, mascots, names (e.g., “Milano Cortina 2026”), mottos, graphics, event designs, music and...more
The Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) held its first monthly meeting of 2026 on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. The meeting was hybrid with in-person accessibility at 160 N. LaSalle St., 5th Floor Auditorium and via livestream. Board...more
Welcome to the February 2026 edition of The Sports Law Playbook. In this issue, we take a closer look at the legal challenges facing advertisers, sponsors and rights holders as marquee events like the Super Bowl and the...more
The Culver City Council is considering a proposal to establish its Downtown Business Improvement District (including key portions of Culver Boulevard and Washington Boulevard, as well as Town Plaza, The Culver Steps and Main...more
The first part of the owners, directors, and senior executives (ODSE) regime came into force on 12 December 2025 and was hailed by Independent Football Regulator (IFR) Chief Executive Richard Monks as the “new era for...more
Italy will host the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo starting February 6, 2026, bringing global attention back to the country for one of the most prominent international sporting events....more
Key Takeaways - Damages awards for Visual Artists Rights Act (“VARA”) violations are not precluded by copyright infringement damages awards. The plaintiff’s VARA award was in addition to an award of actual damages for...more
The legal and compliance landscape for name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights in college sports has changed dramatically over the last two years....more
The Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, is expected to be one of the most watched events in the world, potentially drawing an audience surpassing the previous year’s record of 127.7 million viewers. Although it brings...more
Just weeks ago, we reported that the College Sports Commission (CSC) would be ramping up investigations into unreported third-party NIL agreements. The CSC has since made good on that promise. On January 30, The Athletic...more
This month's rash of indictments over alleged point-shaving in college basketball seems unlikely to prompt immediate wholesale changes within the NCAA, with the organization instead looking outward to address the threats...more