Entertainment, Sports, & Media Law

On October 7, 2024, in the federal case of House et al. v. NCAA et al. out of the Northern District of California between the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) and a proposed class of current and former Division One (“D1”) college athletes, the court granted preliminary approval of…

As the 2024 college football season gets underway, the legal rights and classifications of college athletes are in the midst of a historic and rapid transformation, initiated by a spate of lawsuits starting in 2009 which have primarily challenged the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) (1) restrictions on college athletes’…

THE CASE OF DONALD TRUMP v. CYRUS VANCE, Jr. and MAZARS USA  Winston Churchill wrote a biography of his ancestor John Churchill, who is better known as the Duke of Marlborough. Describing the period of conflict spanning the demise of Cromwell’s government and the restoration of Charles II to…

Last fall, Jonathan Goldsmith, known as the “most interesting man in the world” of Dos Equis advertisement fame, was sued for breach of contract by his former talent agency after allegedly withholding…

Producers of the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory got a legal ‘bazinga’ in a new lawsuit contesting the show’s allegedly unauthorized use of nursery rhyme lyrics written eight decades ago by a New Hampshire school teacher.  The…

  Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Sly Stone has been awarded $5 million by a Los Angeles jury in a breach of contract case claiming that Stone’s former manager and business partners cheated Stone out of more than a decade’s worth of royalties. Stone is best…

San Diego-based rapper Tiny Doo, whose real name is Brandon Duncan, faces prosecution on nine counts of alleged criminal street gang conspiracy, which collectively carry a sentence of 25 years to life in prison. The charges arise from a…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit recently heard the appeal of a trademark infringement suit arising out of Christopher Nolan’s 2012 blockbuster film The Dark Knight Rises, the latest installment of films featuring Gotham City’s Caped…

To most people, music piracy means illegally streaming or downloading a copyrighted work without payment to its creator. In other words, there is a realization that each and every illegal download of a song deprives the creator of payments he or she would have otherwise received through legitimate…