Category: Talent Representation
Talent Representation
Filmmakers working with tight budgets face daunting legal expenses. Southwestern’s Entertainment & The Arts Legal Clinic offers no-cost help, in exchange for students getting invaluable hands-on experience.
Legal fees for entertainment projects in Los Angeles are costly and daunting. But they’re...
Read MoreAfter fans ripped ‘Michael’ for ‘fake’ songs, Sony and King of Pop’s estate won free-speech protection for product answers, judges find
The King of Pop may have died a decade ago but his legacy of litigation lives on, as a California...
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Seeing mostly negatives, appellate judges nix ‘next friend’ advocacy to advance infringement claim aimed at protecting a great ape’s selfies
Although three federal judges have sought to quash some copyright monkeyshines, a fourth and...
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Olivia de Havilland’s legal feud with TV show? It’s gone with the wind, after appellate judges in Calif. toss iconic actress’ publicity rights suit
Ah, so it is Tinsel Town true: Even icons of the silver screen can take a contrarian view of a...
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Even as stars rip Hollywood on its brightest night for its sexism and racism, IMDb site, a judge rules, can post thespian ages, a practice that women say harms careers
Although Hollywood gave full-throated cry at the Academy Awards over the weekend to its aspiration...
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A sourpuss the internet adores scratched up java vendors who messed with her mug. But her $710,000 court win isn’t a path-breaker for animals’ rights
If Uncle Sam’s halls of civil justice weren’t crowded enough with growling two-legged...
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No ‘fake news’ here: 15th annual ‘Entertainment and Media Law Conference’ will tackle Trump Administration’s legal ‘disarray’ for media, entertainment industries
The Media Law Resource Center and Southwestern Law School have hosted for 15 years the...
Read MoreAlex Hunter isn’t the real thing. He’s virtual. And Coke has made this star an endorsement pioneer. (Take note Entertainment Law practitioners)
He’s a popular soccer player, a star in the English Premier League with millions of...
Read MoreNew Hollywood theater brings out the dead. Now what legal specters might haunt post-mortem, holographic performances?
Sadly, they’re long gone — but, no wait, they’re back! Some pop musical legends have...
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Q-&-A: As e-sports rise, Prof. Zachary Levine considers if laws pertaining to games will whir, glow, and ping, or will they go on tilt?
E-sports — aka electronic sports, aka competitive/professional video gaming — offers a novel and...
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Appeals court, at least, sees talent act clearly
U.S. Ninth Circuit judges reject managers’ attack on California law but disputes keep surfacing...
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With tech-streamers’ rise, will law jobs change?
The industry headlines tell a persuasive tale. Netflix: The most feared force in Hollywood?...
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A writers’ strike averted, troubling trends pers
When Hollywood gets the sniffles, its lawyers can feel like they’re suffering a major bout of...
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Calif. tosses angry actor’s talent-act claim
Star’s manager prevails in beef over commissions, representation Thomas Gibson‘s acting career,...
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Is an icon’s image too generic to trademark?
Bitter battle by Marilyn Monroe estate to protect her legacy may have unforeseen consequences for...
Read MoreAnimators to draw $170 million from studios
Disney, its subsidiaries join major studios in big settlement over visual talents’ claims of anti-competitive personnel practices Animators, digital artists, and visual effects specialists for industry-leading companies...
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Sir Paul’s rights claims: music industry temblor
In artists’ battles to terminate, recover copyrights, $750-million Beatles catalog’s a...
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A King of Comedy clobbers an old claim
Steve Harvey, the original king of comedy himself, will get the last laugh in his long dispute...
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Talent agency, casting workshops charged
LA City Attorney files raft of Krekorian Act cases Delores White, an Inglewood mom, thought her...
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Ollivierra, Lind named Institute co-directors
Southwestern Law School has announced that faculty members Neil Ollivierra and Robert Lind will serve as the new co-directors of the nationally recognized Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute. Lind is a Southwestern...
Read MoreNew Calif. law captures some of the burning anger about ageism, sexism in Hollywood
Although the adage holds that “it’s never polite to ask a lady her age,” in Hollywood, the very point of view captured in that aphorism has itself become a new flashpoint. That’s because women, unions, politicians,...
Read MoreRIP, to a celebrated force in Entertainment Law
Let there be no doubt: the Purple Reign, which has ended tragically all too soon, affected Entertainment Law and many of its practitioners. Prince Rogers Nelson, 57, not only played the role of path-breaking artist, musician,...
Read MoreGoliath of live concerts cleared on anti-trust
The way that fans interact with music has changed drastically in the decade, moving them away from getting them to form long lines at venues to buy tickets to concerts to doing so now online, at home, alone, instantly, and with...
Read MoreFoundation gets a say in Charles rights case
The late Ray Charles could set a concert house afire all by himself, just by sitting down and putting hands on the keys of an upright piano to bob, weave, and belt out a terrific tune. When it comes to straightening out the...
Read MoreAppellate court revives suit over Talent Act
While the curtain seemed to have fallen on the battle over the California Labor Commission’s Talent Agency Act, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided this dispute will play on. This case seemed to be all but over...
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