Media & Entertainment

  • July 28, 2026

    LG Can't Arbitrate Stockholder Suit, Chancery Says

    The Delaware Chancery Court has refused to send fiduciary duty claims against LG, its U.S. subsidiary and several executives to arbitration, ruling that an investor's derivative lawsuit over the governance of advertising technology company Alphonso must remain in the Delaware court.

  • July 27, 2026

    Meta Left Users In Dark About Danger, Tenn. AG Tells Jury

    Tennessee's attorney general went to trial Monday against Meta over claims the social media giant concealed teen mental health harms, telling a jury that despite the revelations employees saw from its systematic research program, the public "warning never came."

  • July 27, 2026

    7th Circ. Asked To Clarify Copyright Prevailing Party Status

    A man who successfully defended himself from being held liable for damages when he was sued by a food photography company that claimed his photo of raw meat on Facebook counted as copyright infringement has asked the Seventh Circuit to find that he's the "prevailing party" for purposes of seeking attorney fees.

  • July 27, 2026

    Epic Says Google Wants To Hide Rival App Stores In Search

    Epic Games and Google asked the California federal judge overseeing the gaming giant's antitrust battle against the tech giant to resolve a dispute over whether the court's injunction requires rival app stores to be shown in Play Store search results or whether Google can "relegate" rivals to a separate page.

  • July 27, 2026

    Atlantic Moves To Dismiss Kash Patel Defamation Suit

    The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick on Monday defended their article describing the alleged drinking and absences of FBI Director Kash Patel, maintaining that Fitzpatrick's reporting was deeply-sourced and asking a Washington federal judge to toss Patel's defamation lawsuit on the basis that he has not plausibly alleged any "actual malice" in publishing the story.

  • July 27, 2026

    Hawaiian Telecom, Electric Co. Resolve Pole Removal Dustup

    A telecom has agreed to end its dispute with Hawaiian Electric Co. after urging the Federal Communications Commission to block the utility's removal of 22 electric poles that are also used for communications gear.

  • July 27, 2026

    DC Circ. Overturns Its Own Holocaust Art Ruling

    The D.C. Circuit has substantially vacated its ruling ending long-running litigation brought by the descendants of a Hungarian Jewish art collector seeking the return of a priceless art collection looted by the Nazis, citing the passage of a new law.

  • July 27, 2026

    Google Can't Get 2nd Try At Eliminating Network-1 Patent

    A New York federal judge has denied Google's request for a second attempt at invalidating a patent asserted by a patent licensing company, rejecting its arguments that a Federal Circuit decision from last month made another try necessary.

  • July 27, 2026

    Carriers Back Changes To Broadband Map Data Gathering

    An association of competitive communications providers backed the Federal Communications Commission's recent action to eliminate regulations the agency has characterized as unduly burdensome, in addition to improving data collection and the national broadband deployment map.

  • July 27, 2026

    Samsung Owes $92.3M After Judge Boosts Media IP Award

    A Texas federal judge has heaped $13.8 million in prejudgment interest on top of a $78.5 million jury award owed by Samsung after it was found to infringe a pair of patents covering automatic content recognition technology for commercial advertising.

  • July 27, 2026

    Deal Reached In Comedian Eric André's Racial Profiling Suit

    Actor Eric André and another comedian who said their constitutional rights were violated when they were racially profiled at an Atlanta airport have reached a tentative deal with a Georgia county to settle their lawsuit about a year after the Eleventh Circuit agreed to revive the case. 

  • July 27, 2026

    Live Nation, DOJ Say States Have Enough Discovery Into Deal

    The U.S. Department of Justice has joined with Live Nation to resist a discovery request by a bipartisan group of state attorneys general seeking more information about a settlement the federal government reached with the company in the middle of an antitrust trial.

  • July 27, 2026

    NTIA Pushes For Gov't, Industry Move Toward 6G Mobile

    The federal government's spectrum manager hopes to see the advent of sixth-generation mobile services on a fast track as long as global partners are ready to get on board.

  • July 27, 2026

    Apple Feature Limiting Kids' Screen Time Is Flawed, Suit Says

    An Apple customer lodged a proposed class action in California state court Monday alleging it falsely markets that its Screen Time feature enables parents to control their children's device usage and put limits on certain social networking apps, while hiding defects that allowed his son to use Snapchat for hours. 

  • July 27, 2026

    Ad Patent Claims Against Hulu Are Invalid, Judge Says

    A California federal judge has cleared Hulu from a lawsuit accusing it of infringing patents covering ways to deliver content and advertising through streaming, after finding the patents themselves were invalid to begin with.

  • July 27, 2026

    Utilities Org. Urges FCC Not To Preempt Wash. Pole Regs

    A group representing 27 consumer-owned public utility districts in Washington state has told the Federal Communications Commission not to preempt the state's process to resolve issues stemming from mobile or internet service providers wanting to attach equipment to utility poles.

  • July 27, 2026

    NJ Mayor Fights DOJ Bid To Toss False Arrest Suit

    Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka is pushing back on a bid from the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss a lawsuit over his allegedly unlawful arrest last year outside an ICE facility, telling a New Jersey federal court that the government's theories of immunity don't fit the facts and case law.

  • July 24, 2026

    Data Privacy & AI Issues To Watch For The Rest Of 2026

    Federal and state lawmakers are expected in the coming months to keep pressing efforts for companies to do more to keep children safe online and rein in potentially harmful uses of emerging artificial intelligence systems, while the California Legislature ponders a measure that's aimed at easing the explosion of wiretap litigation under a decades-old state law.

  • July 24, 2026

    Amazon Accused Of Poaching Warner Exec Under Contract

    Warner Bros. Discovery sued Amazon in Los Angeles court alleging it poached one of its executives despite her being under contract in "blatant disregard" of the law, and said the move is part of a pattern of behavior of inducing Warner executives to breach their employment agreements.

  • July 24, 2026

    Conservative Groups Say No To Broadcast Renewal Updates

    Fourteen conservative and free-market organizations urged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to preserve broadcast license renewals as "routine and presumptive."

  • July 24, 2026

    DOD Says Boat Strike Videos Sought By NYT Are Classified

    The U.S. Department of Defense told a New York federal judge that while it did share on social media video clips from military strikes on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, it properly withheld from The New York Times the full-length videos because they contain classified details.

  • July 24, 2026

    Apple Beats Bid To Revive COVID App Antitrust Suit

    The D.C. Circuit on Friday refused to revive an antitrust lawsuit that accuses Apple of unlawfully tying its iPhone to its App Store and monopolizing access to COVID-19 tracing apps, saying an app developer that sued the tech giant failed to plausibly allege relevant product markets for its claims.

  • July 24, 2026

    Viamedia Says Comcast Already Has Info It Wants

    Viamedia wants an Illinois federal court to declare moot Comcast's motion to compel information about one of its board members, saying it has already disclosed how much the key witness in question stands to be paid if Viamedia comes out on top in the antitrust battle.

  • July 24, 2026

    Big Fish Can't Pursue Apple Store Takedown, Dev Says

    An Armenian game developer accused of withholding source code belonging to Big Fish Games urged a Washington federal judge Friday to block the company's attempt to have games removed from the Apple Store.

  • July 24, 2026

    Paramount Promises Not To Close Merger During Challenge

    Paramount Skydance Corp. took a fight over a preliminary injunction off the table Friday with a promise not to close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. until June 2027 or when a California federal judge rules on the merits of challenges to the deal.

Expert Analysis

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    International Patent Licensing System Must Be Maintained

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    As foreign approaches to patent enforcement threaten to distort the licensing markets that underpin modern technology, courts and policymakers must take action to ensure that the standard essential patent framework is preserved, says Brian O'Shaughnessy at Dinsmore.

  • Series

    Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

  • 'Anderson Method' Ruling Shows Copyright Limits In Fitness

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    The Ninth Circuit's ruling in Tracy Anderson Mind and Body v. Megan Roup, finding that sequences of exercises developed and recorded by Tracy Anderson were not copyrightable choreographic works, is a reminder that even highly creative fitness programming can fall outside the scope of copyright protection, says Meredith Bobber Strauss at Michelman & Robinson.

  • Series

    NY Times Word Puzzles Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

  • Submitting Ideas To AI Platforms May Affect Patent Rights

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    Recent judicial developments suggest that disclosing an invention to a consumer artificial intelligence platform constitutes public disclosure, making disciplined use of such tools and early filing strategies essential to preserving patent rights, say attorneys at Day Pitney.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lesson: Diagnose Before Arguing

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    Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.

  • Becoming The Biz-Savvy GC That Portfolio Companies Need

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    Candidates for general counsel roles at private equity-backed portfolio companies should prioritize proving their sector-specific experience, commercial judgment and ease with uncertainty — and attorneys hoping to be candidates in five to 10 years should start working on those skills now, says Dimitri Mastrocola at Major Lindsey.

  • Nielsen Appeal Tests Antitrust Limits Of Pricing And Bundling

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    In Cumulus v. Nielsen, the Second Circuit is considering a structural pattern in which a monopolist exploits upstream market power to foreclose downstream competition, which could potentially offer broad insight into how courts will assess exclusionary bundling and pricing defenses under antitrust law, says Luke Hasskamp at Bona Law.

  • Series

    Judges On AI: How Courts Can Survive The Tech Revolution

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    Colorado Supreme Court Justice Maria Berkenkotter and Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Lino Lipinsky de Orlov discuss how artificial intelligence has already fundamentally altered the legal system and offer tips for courts navigating deepfakes, hallucinations and a gap in access to AI tools.

  • Exploring The Legal Gray Area Around AI Voices In Music

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    The growing prevalence of AI music on online platforms highlights unique legal questions and ambiguities surrounding the usage of artificial intelligence to create accurate voice clones of existing singers, says Michael Maicher at Volpe Koenig.

  • 3 AI Adoption Mistakes GCs Should Avoid

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    The pressure in-house legal teams face to quickly adopt artificial intelligence tools, combined with budget constraints and the need to evaluate a crowded market of options, sets the stage for implementation mistakes that are often difficult to undo, says former 23andMe general counsel Guy Chayoun.

  • Framing AI Risk Management In The Art World

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    With gallery professionals indicating a widening gap between operational adoption of artificial intelligence and cultural acceptance of AI as an art medium, certain intellectual property, privacy and governance considerations are becoming critical for art industry stakeholders, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Series

    Playing Basketball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My grandfather used to say "I wear your jersey" as shorthand for wholly committing to support someone with loyalty and integrity — ideals that have shaped my life on the basketball court and in legal practice, says Tracy Schimelfenig at Schimelfenig Legal.

  • Nexstar Offers A Cautionary Tale On State-Level Deal Scrutiny

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    State-enforcement challenges to the $6.2 billion Nexstar-Tegna merger remind legal practitioners that federal approval isn't always sufficient to deliver certainty on closing, integration and timetable assumptions, says Brett Story at Britehorn Securities.

  • Salt-N-Pepa Suit May Shake Up Music Copyright Issue

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    James v. UMG Recordings is a copyright termination rights case that provides an opportunity for the Second Circuit to make concrete choices about grant language, authorship, work-for-hire status and survival of derivative works, says attorney Abdul Abdullahi.

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