With the World Cup approaching in June 2026, many brands are beginning to plan marketing campaigns aimed at engaging soccer fans across a global audience. While the term “World Cup” is commonly used in everyday conversation, it…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property
As you may have seen in the news, tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are now before the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found them unlawful. While this…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade
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 your…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law
The New York State Fashion Workers Act (FWA) was signed into law on December 21, 2024, and establishes new responsibilities and requirements for individuals and entities that manage models, as well as the businesses who contract…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Happy New Year . . . Our annual “year in review” Online Travel Update is below. We’ve enjoyed having the opportunity to work with many of you this past year and look forward to working with you in 2026…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts
Happy Monday evening from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, December 19, 2025, is below. This week’s Update features a heavy concentration of important legal updates on local Chinese…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts
Welcome back to the Spotlight! I’m not going to sugarcoat it. We live in some dark times. From one week to the next, we’re confronted by a parade of horribles that threaten to take our light. The events of this past week have…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law
California has become the first state in the U.S. to legally define “ultra-processed foods” (UPFs) and to begin phasing them out of K-12 schools. Under Assembly Bill 1264 (AB 1264), also known as the Real Food, Healthy Kids Act,…
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/ Administrative Law, Education Law, Health
As privacy regulations continue to evolve in the U.S., states are increasingly requiring businesses to honor universal opt-out signals that communicate a consumer’s data-sharing preferences. Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, December 12, 2025, is below. This week’s Update includes a number of updates to stories we featured previously, including…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts
With the constant stream of email spoofing and phishing attempts in consumer’s inboxes, recipients increasingly struggle to distinguish legitimate emails from fraudulent ones. Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI)…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property
Welcome back to the Spotlight! If you stopped by last week, you might recall that I discussed Netflix and Warner Bros. coming to an agreement for Netflix to acquire the latter’s content production business in a cash and debt…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law
Good Sunday evening from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, December 5, 2025, is below. With last week’s Thanksgiving holiday break, our list of stories this week is longer than usual…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts
Welcome back to the Spotlight! With our entering the 12th frame of 2025, so begins a cavalcade of holiday parties, overindulgences, Spotify Wrapped statistics, Mariah Carey, timeless film classics, travel and year in review…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law
Louisiana’s SB 14, signed into law on June 20, 2025, takes a different approach from Texas. Effective January 1, 2028, any food sold in Louisiana containing any of 44 specified ingredients (many overlapping with Texas’ list)…
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/ Agriculture, Consumer Protection
