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Washington v. National Football League

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 5 2012

District court grants NFL’s motion to dismiss class action filed by former football players alleging that, by not allowing the players the rights to game films and images from the games in which they played, the NFL is monopolizing the market for former players’ likenesses, in violation of antitrust laws

SiriusXM brings law suit against SoundExchange alleging collusion to stop direct licensing of music - impact on royalties?

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 28 2012

SiriusXM announced that is has filed a legal action, including antitrust claims, against SoundExchange and A2IM (the American Association of Independent Music - the association of independent record labels), charging, according to a press release, these two organizations "with unlawfully interfering in SiriusXM's efforts to secure, through a competitive market, copyrights critical to its business

Microsoft allowed access to Datel Xbox discovery

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2011

Microsoft Corp. has recently won a bid to force Datel Holdings Ltd. to produce documents and sample products in an action involving Datel's Xbox 360 accessories

Collecting societies face the music - General Court hearing underway

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 6 2011

On 28 September 2011 the General Court embarked on the first in a series of appeal hearings that are scheduled to run until 24 October 2011

Thayil v. Fox Broadcasting

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 8 2012

District court dismisses plaintiff’s complaint accusing producers of American Idol and other reality competition shows of stealing his ideas and infringing his copyrights, holding that the allegedly stolen elements were not copyrightable, and that plaintiff’s conclusory allegations did not suffice to state a claim

Online social media legal risks for associations

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 2 2012

Incorporating the use of social media and online networking sites into an association's larger communication, membership, or marketing strategies raises a number of potential legal risks and liability issues for the association

A case of preemption

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 25 2012

A ruling from the U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan last week decided an issue of first impression, and held that broadcasters’ claims of state law unfair competition were preempted by the United States Copyright Act