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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

For each area of law discussed – choice of law, contract law, and international civil procedure – Kindt identifies a variety of avenues for such incorporation, including, e.g. a (very) generous approach to choice-of-law and choice-of-court clauses that are linked or correspond to a model document.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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The Hollywood Lawyer

APRIL 8, 2022

Angel Studio’s content is family-friendly and uniquely funded wholly through crowdsourced financing. “Miracle after miracle after miracle,” said Jeffrey Harmon, who heads the […]. The settlement helped Angel Studio “rise out of bankruptcy” and get their streaming service, VidAngel, back online.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

Written by Eduardo Silva de Freitas (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University Rotterdam/Utrecht University) & Jos Hoevenaars (Erasmus University Rotterdam), members of the Vici project Affordable Access to Justice, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), www.euciviljustice.eu.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

JANUARY 11, 2021

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

11:15 am My first class of the day is a contract law seminar with John Kennedy. In contract law, we work right through from contract formation and terms to remedies as a result of a breach. However, with deadlines looming my friend Charles has come round to talk about our contract law assignment.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Netflix has reported that it will be creating a GameStop documentary and feature film with Emmy and Oscar-winning filmmakers Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus. The documentary will feature interviews with members of the Reddit forum, r/wallstreetbets, behind the rise of GameStop stock, everyday amateur traders, and Wallstreet financial experts.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

MARCH 5, 2021

Paramount Pictures has plans to produce a remake of the classic 1961 “Breakfast At Tiffany’s,” but attorney’s for Truman Capote, who wrote the novella that the film was based on, has been fighting it in federal court alleging breach of contract.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Lil Nas X’s collaboration with MSCHF over their limited edition tennis shoes made with Nike Air Max 97s, “Satan Shoes,” has garnered a trademark infringement lawsuit by Nike.

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JULY 2, 2021

The Walt Disney Company and Fireman’s Fund Insurance are headed to court over a $10M lawsuit by the Fireman insurance company. Fireman claims they are not “on the hook” to cover Disney’s claims to cover the costs of the pandemic’s “Second Wave” and “Holiday Hiatus” in 2020.

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JULY 26, 2021

A new report from TikTok revealed that 75% of its U.S. users say they “discover new artists via the platform, are more likely to seek out a song they heard, and associate certain songs with TikTok,” Worldwide, TikTok confirms they have over 3 billion monthly active users (MAUs) and surpassing YoutTube in average time spent […].

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JULY 31, 2021

Disney is facing a lawsuit brought on by Scarlett Johansson over breach of contract and loss of earnings. Scarlett’s recent blockbuster film, “Black Widow,” had its theatrical run cut by Disney’s decision to move it to streaming, in a growing trend to hybridize film releases.

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JULY 23, 2021

An eight-year lawsuit has finally come to an end for Lifetime Television. A judge has ruled in their favor stating that they did not over fictionalized the movie “Romeo Killer,” and therefore protected under the first amendment and deemed newsworthy.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Disney filed a motion to dismiss a recent lawsuit by Jeffrey Scott, one of the original Muppet Babies 1984 series writers and developer (1984 – 1991), against the entertainment giant.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Aaliyah’s estate is in the process of bringing her music to streaming services. Part of his disarray around her business affairs is that each song album was distributed through a different label. Currently, only a handful of her singles are legally available on streaming services.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Gerard Butler alleges fraud against Nu Image, Millennium Media, and Padre Nuestro Productions. Butler claims that he is owed $10+ million from the success of Olympus Has Fallen, the 2013 blockbuster, about an assault on the White House.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

MARCH 22, 2021

Campbell was awarded $1.7 million-plus 50% future royalties in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against PnB Rock and producer June James for alleging their 2017 hit with YFN Lucci, “Everyday We Lit,” was copied from Campbell’s 2016 less well-known song, “Everything Be Lit.”

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Filmmaker Francesca Gregorini sued Shyamalan and Apple over the show ‘Servant,’ accusing them of “bastardizing” her 2013 film, ‘The Truth About Emanuel,’ a psychological thriller about a woman who forms a relationship with a doll after the death of her infant.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Damon Dash is being sued by Roc-A-Fella, the company that he co-founded, for attempting to auction off Jay-Z’s 1996 album, “Reasonable Doubt,” as an NFT.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

APRIL 9, 2021

Guillermo Del Toro’s “The Shape Of Water” has faced multiple copyright lawsuits.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

MARCH 1, 2021

Austin Mahone has grown into a globally recognized pop-music icon over the past decade. Globally, he has a combined social media reach of more than 36 million followers and maintains 615 million streams on Spotify and over one billion total YouTube views.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

AUGUST 2, 2021

In New York, a Judge dismissed a lawsuit against Bob Dylan, seeking $7.25M in royalties by one of Dylan’s co-writers, Levy. The Judge said in a statement that, “For the reasons explained here, the Court determines that the plain meaning of the 1975 Agreement is that the Dylan Defendants owned all copyrights to the Compositions.”

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The Hollywood Lawyer

AUGUST 27, 2021

Netflix’s animated series Castlevania producer Adi Shankar sued the company and fellow producer Kevin Kolde over breach of contract. While claiming that he had a verbal agreement to continue to be involved in any spinoff projects, with a 33% compensation stake, Netflix announced a spinoff without naming the defendant as a producer.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

AUGUST 20, 2021

” But when Zingano turned down a fight for UFC for the film because Berry asked her to, UFC canceled her contract, and subsequently, Berry turned her down for losing her UFC contract. Cat Zingano is a UFC fighter that auditioned for a role in Halle Berry’s directorial debut on Netflix, “Bruised.”

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The Hollywood Lawyer

JULY 12, 2021

In a multi-million-dollar purchase, Primary Wave Music became the new owner of 50% of Grammy-nominated musician, Chris Isaak, catalog. The deal encompasses Isaak’s biggest hits: Blue Hotel, San Francisco Days, Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing, Somebody’s Crying, and Wicked Game. Issak also gets in the deal the chance to sign artists and release new music.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

JUNE 7, 2021

Twitch was recently hit with nearly 1,000 new copyright infringement takedown orders “over the use of copyrighted music played in the background of recorded VODs (on-demand videos).”

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The Hollywood Lawyer

AUGUST 9, 2021

Universal Music Corp, Capitol Records, Universal Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, and Sony Music Publishing, the suit accuses Charter of having “knowingly contributed to, and reaped substantial profits from, massive copyright infringement committed by thousands of its subscribers”.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

JUNE 18, 2021

The Writers Guild of America East has confirmed that 204 employees of the MSNBC’s newsroom bargaining unit “have signed a petition to recognize the guild as their bargaining representative and that more are expected to sign up in the coming days.”

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The Hollywood Lawyer

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A Utah theme park has sued Taylor Swift over who owns the trademark for “Evermore,” Taylor’s latest album.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

AUGUST 6, 2021

New legislation in California benefitting the entertainment industry would invest into the California incentive program by $330 million over two years, and it includes a diversity requirement to reflect California’s population. An additional $150 million fund will go to renovating sound stages in and around Los Angeles County.

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