PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - NCAA Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) Update – Effects of House Settlement
(Podcast) The Briefing: Everyone Loves the HBO Series 'White Lotus,' Except Duke University
Dinsmore: A trusted partner in NIL deals
House Final Settlement Hearing: Key Insights and Future Implications for NIL — Highway to NIL Podcast
Rescission of DOE Guidance — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Labor Law Insider: Student Athletes as Employees – Changes and Updates on the Dartmouth Case, NIL Litigation
DOE Guidance and DOJ Statement of Interest — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL News: End of Year Roundup — Highway to NIL Podcast
(Podcast) The Briefing: About Face – Courts Weigh AI Face-Swapping Technology and Celebrity Rights
The Briefing: About Face – Courts Weigh AI Face-Swapping Technology and Celebrity Rights
House Settlement Approval — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Journey From Athlete To Executive
What's the Tea in L&E? Getting Sued for Using Photos of Employees
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 6 | Fielding the Future: Title IX and NIL
NCAA Settlement Update — Highway to NIL Podcast
Title IX — Highway to NIL Podcast
NCAA Settlement Hearing — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Briefing – Late Night, Early Dismissal: The Santos-Kimmel Copyright Case
(Podcast) The Briefing – Late Night, Early Dismissal: The Santos-Kimmel Copyright Case
(Podcast) The Briefing: Deep Dive into the NO FAKES Act
After meeting with former University of Alabama football coach and seven-time national champion Nick Saban, President Trump is considering forming a college sports commission and issuing an executive order to establish...more
The recent decision by U.S. District Judge Karen Marston in MLB Players Inc. v. DraftKings and Bet365[1] represents a pivotal development in the legal landscape surrounding name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights. The ruling...more
In a legal clash between MLB Players Inc. (MLBPI) and sports betting companies, DraftKings and bet365, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied the defendants’ motions to dismiss....more
On this episode of the R&G Dugout podcast, Ropes & Gray litigation & enforcement partner and lead of the firm’s sports industry initiative, Chris Conniff, is joined by intellectual property transactions partner Erica Han....more
Your company believes it has an employee-friendly culture, and it wants to publicize/exhibit/promote/exploit that positive experience in its external marketing and promotional materials and internal correspondence and...more
As 2024 comes to a close, permutations in the arena of name, image and likeness (NIL) impacting collegiate athletics continue unabated. Most prominently, Northern District of California District Judge Claudia Wilken...more
Imitation may be considered the sincerest form of flattery, but in the world of intellectual property (IP), it might cost you....more
Lawyers involved with a proposed multi-billion-dollar settlement of three athlete-compensation antitrust cases against the NCAA and the Power Five conferences filed documents on Thursday that included small, but potentially...more
Image-generating technology is accelerating quickly, making it much more likely that you will be seeing "digital replicas" (sometimes referred to as "deepfakes") of celebrities and non-celebrities alike across film,...more
Illinois continues to enact legislation regulating artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI technologies. •A little less than a year ago, Gov. JB Pritzker signed H.B. 2123 into law. That law, becoming effective...more
In July 2024, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and major athletic conferences reached an agreement with plaintiffs in connection with House v. NCAA that portends significant changes for college athletics....more
Last week, for the second time ever, members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) in the gaming industry (e.g., voice actors and motion capture artists) voted to strike...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is holding a roundtable discussion, on August 5, 2024, about the intersection of AI technology and legal protections for individuals’ reputations and name, image, voice,...more
Global music superstar Taylor Swift began her music career in Nashville, so we thought it fitting that on July 1, with the end of the Eras Tour in sight, the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act went into...more
Bette Midler. Vanna White. Marylin Monroe. Each of these women has undoubtedly shaped pop culture in some meaningful way. Perhaps what is lesser known is that litigation surrounding each of these women has shaped the legal...more
For decades, student-athletes have asserted that colleges and universities have benefitted from their participation in collegiate athletics, while the student athletes themselves receive nothing in return. A college...more
This month, we posted about a lawsuit that an NBA Hall of Fame player filed against a company that allegedly used his image to sell products without his permission. Regardless of how that case turns out, it’s pretty clear you...more
Dominique Wilkins is an NBA Hall of Fame basketball player known for his acrobatic slam dunks and, after retirement, for his commentary during televised Hawks games. Wilkins also suffers from diabetes and has been an advocate...more
Developments in the world of name, image and likeness (NIL) rights continue to occur at an extremely swift pace. Within the last two weeks, Virginia amended its existing NIL laws to significantly strengthen student-athlete...more
Vondran Legal® News: We have recently filed suit in the Los Angeles Superior Court against the South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation. Amazingly, they used photographs of two Defendants (who are working professionals who...more
A Q&A guide to New Jersey right of publicity laws. This Q&A addresses the types of persons and aspects of identity protected by the right of publicity, remedies for violations of the right, defenses to right of publicity...more
Laws prohibiting the use of a person’s likeness for commercial gain have been in effect for some time, testing everything from the value of an influencer’s endorsement to “freemium” reports by people search companies....more
A new Tennessee law seeks to impose liability on generative AI companies and internet platforms related to unauthorized use of a person’s voice or likeness. On March 21, 2024, Tennessee enacted the Ensuring Likeness,...more
Marketers understandably get excited when a celebrity is spotted using their product. It’s validation of all their efforts! Unfortunately, just because a celebrity has used the product – even if they have publicly posted...more
Tennessee has joined the ranks of states regulating, in various ways, the use of artificial intelligence to manipulate an individual’s likeness. On March 21, 2024, Gov. Bill Lee said “thank you very much” to the Tennessee...more