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Not your average ROM com: No love lost as video game ’emulators’ get legal blast from Nintendo
This guest article is a courtesy cross-post from the social media of the Wolk & Levine law...
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Seeking the skinny on copyrights for NBA stars’ phat tattoos, federal judge keeps alive suit that pits ink artist against video game maker
While legions of fans will focus with zeal and dread to see if LeBron James can lead the Cleveland...
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For Video Game Manufacturers, Hollywood, and Other Makers of E- Entertainments Targeting Kids, Uncle Sam Offers 650,000 Reasons to Protect Privacy of Vulnerable Young
Uncle Sam took out his regulatory stick recently and rapped the knuckles of a Hong Kong toy...
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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...
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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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Court sorts out rights tiff in a mod, mod world
U.S. judge denies summary judgment in video gaming dispute, in which he dissects unitary vs....
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Appellate court gives boot to video game claims
If plaintiffs aren’t clever enough to present the courts with the basics, notably the...
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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...
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‘Oh, Really?’ Pokemon chased by legal reality
In our ‘Oh, Really?’ feature, the Biederman Blog’s editors and alumni— voracious consumers of...
Read MoreLegal ink’s not dry on copyright for tattoos
For centuries, the human race has shown an affinity for body art, often capturing works of art onto the human “canvas.” From tribesmen to notable celebrities today, tattoos have persisted in culture as a personal identifier....
Read MoreBarbs over ‘safe’ arrows raise legal quivers
The movie studios, television networks, video game makers, and big-time music businesses on both coasts may wish to take note of a curious case playing out in the nation’s heartland. It’s raising some novel issues...
Read MoreFilmmakers’ win with a First Amendment blast
With everyone from Hollywood producers to video game makers poring over the headlines for compelling people stories to convert into hot properties or products, California’s right of publicity law long has sought to:...
Read MoreSecond City’s new tax fails to amuse netizens
This guest post was written by Travis J. Sabaitis, a student in the Entertainment Law and Web 2.0 course at Southwestern Law School. It isn’t even Halloween yet, but already for those in the entertainment industry, a...
Read MoreQ.-&-A.: Bert Fields on post-mortem rights
When legendary Entertainment lawyer Bert Fields recently addressed the Harvard Law Association at the Beverly Hills Bar, he, of course, brought down the house, delighting his audience with his comments on an array of topics. His...
Read MoreIn big-dollar publicity rights bid, athletes lose
Onetime college athletes seemed to have gotten a big win over broadcast networks and video game makers last year when a federal judge in California ruled that the NCAA could not keep athletes from licensing their own names and...
Read MoreUncle Sam adds new tactic to ‘notorious’ list
The U.S. Trade Representative recently released its annual Notorious Market List, which calls out markets where the infringing of intellectual property is most problematic and where markets themselves enable “substantial...
Read MoreAre gamers’ tiffs just the edge of a net specter?
Who owns the technology that now is intrinsic to our daily lives? Chances are, it is not you. While users may own the physical devices, the technology that drives them, the intellectual property that they rely on, and their...
Read MoreA legal move seeks to help video gamers play on
You paid a nice chunk of change and you do own that Entertainment-related intellectual property, right? It may sound familiar to fans of digital music who sought to resell their “used” collections through the online...
Read MoreWith infringing rap game, elusive damages
So you’re a Entertainment Law litigator and you get a case in which the facts seem on your side and the monetary damages that might follow could sound, well, juicy. As a recent case involving a rap song video game shows,...
Read MoreVideo game addiction? Court dings dad’s claim
While video gamers can go on outlandish binges of play — take the fatal, 50-hour ordeal undertaken on Aug. 5, 2005 by Seung Seop Lee — can someone pursue legal action, asserting harm from another’s video-game...
Read MoreVideogamers zapped with a reading lesson
The devil’s in the details — and so was a federal judge’s recent decision, rejecting a claim by some impatient gamers, infuriated that they had to wait, gosh, two whole doggone weeks, before they could play...
Read MoreOptioning a life story? Tap these online tips
The trend in entertainment in recent years has been for movies to be based on actual people and actual events, consider such titles as Fruitvale Station, Lone Survivor,and Wolf on Wall Street . As Variety notes:...
Read MoreDoink! An $11-million ‘Madden’ reverse play
Envision the big fellow, hands waving, he’s a little wheezy and loud as he pronounces: “So this guy goes this way, and then this one that way, and, everyone’s running around and… Boom! Suddenly you have...
Read MoreBurbling of monster babe: It’s ‘work for hire’
Amanda Lewis, an ex-employee of Activision Blizzard, has been “WOW’d” by the loss of her recent federal copyright infringement suit against the video-game publishing powerhouse. Activision, along with co-defendant, Blizzard...
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