Actress’s Lawsuit Against IMDb.com and Amazon.com is One Step Closer to Trial

Posted by on Apr 10, 2012 in Business Transactions, Entertainment, Film, News, Television | 0 comments On March 30, 2012, the Washington Federal Court Ninth Circuit made several findings in the case of Huang Hoang, who has been making headlines in the entertainment industry for her lawsuit last October claiming website IMDb.com and its parent company Amazon.com are liable to her for damages because they had revealed her true age of 40 years old. Ms. Hoang, who is better known in the entertainment...
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Sandra Bullock Sues ToyWatch USA for Using Her to Sell Watches: Rights to Publicity at Issue

Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 in Business Litigation, Business Transactions, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions, Entertainment, Film, News, Television | 0 comments It’s no secret to most consumers these days that celebrities and the corporations they team up with make tons and tons of cash selling products. These celebrity endorsements can help skyrocket sales of nearly any product or service. The bottom line is that celebrity endorsements work. The law makes clear that celebrities have a right of publicity, which basically means the celebrity has a...
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Google Takes a Stand in MPAA Lawsuit Against Hotfile

Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 in Art, Business Litigation, Business Transactions, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions, Copyright, Entertainment, Film, Intellectual Property, Music, News, Television | 0 comments The Motion Picture Association of America has filed a summary judgment motion in its lawsuit against Hotfile,which could allow the court to decide fairly soon whether or not Hotfile will be held liable for encouraging and facilitating copyright infringement. Many consumers may be unfamiliar with the Hotfile website and more familiar with past websites like Napster and Limewire. Similar to Napster...
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Bravo and Ryan Seacrest Settle with “Shahs of Sunset” Participant

Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 in Art, Entertainment, Film, News, Television | 0 comments Many people may may have been surprised when one of the participants of the upcoming reality show the “Shahs of Sunset” filed a lawsuit last November claiming she was being forced to play the bad girl role in the show. Most people have the gut reaction that in reality television, anything goes- including bad behavior. For those of you not familiar with the anticipated new reality series, it...
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Lawsuits Threaten Jay-Z’s Fortune More than a Decade After the Release of Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin” Musical Hit

Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 in Art, Copyright, Entertainment, Film, Intellectual Property, Music, News, Television | 0 comments It may take you a while to recall the song “Big Pimpin” by Jay-Z, but it is likely that even if you do not listen to rap music, you have heard it in a movie, a television sitcom, on the radio, or as background music in a store. This song was a major hit for Jay-Z and likely one of the songs that put him on the map to stardom more than ten years ago. Many thirty-somethings can probably recall...
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Trial Date Set in Actress Huang Hoang’s Lawsuit Against IMDB and Amazon

Posted by on Mar 6, 2012 in Art, Employment, Entertainment, Film, News, Television | 0 comments The Texas-based actress suing IMDB and its parent company Amazon for publishing her true age on their website is now moving forward and the federal judge presiding over the case has set a trial date for January 07, 2013. Hoang’s lawsuit asserts causes of action for breach of contract, fraud, and violation of Washington’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Act. Now that the Ms. Hoang has...
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