The decision, which affirms the 2nd Circuit's findings in the landmark copyright case, rebalances the fair use doctrine to place greater emphasis on whether a purportedly "transformative" work is commercially competitive with the original work it copies.
The health plan will pay $15 million to senior members who lost their coverage due to earnings requirement changes made in 2020
LEGAL NEWS 04/3/2023 Billboard's 2023 Top Music Lawyers Revealed The best attorneys in the business are defending the rights of their clients, negotiating smart deals — and warily watching the rise of artificial intelligence. By Bill Donahue, Thom Duffy Neville L. JohnsonFounding partner, J...
The decision, which favored California instead of New York’s delayed discovery approach, increases the likelihood that the Supreme Court will eventually have to step in and resolve the confusion.
A divide among federal appeals courts over the breadth of monetary damages that copyright holders can recover in lawsuits widened this week with a ruling from the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit, which found that rights holders can sue for damages from a period beyond copyright law's three-year statute of limitations.
A music production company has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in California federal court accusing Major League Soccer and a host of its professional teams of using, without permission, hundreds of its cataloged mostly instrumental musical recordings on social media for marketing purposes.
Johnson & Johnson would like to recognize Neville Johnson on being selected as top 100 lawyers in Southern California. Doug Johnson is also a Super Lawyer and Daniel Lifschitz is a Rising Star.
By Neville L. Johnson, Douglas L. Johnson, and Daniel B. Lifschitz* For nearly as long as the United States has existed, our courts have understood that “it is monstrous to talk of existing rights, without applying correspondent remedies.”[1] It is curious, then, that the Second and Ninth Circui...
The Ninth Circuit Frees Up More Musical Building Blocks (Gray v. Hudson) In 2018, the Ninth Circuit upheld a jury verdict against the writers of the song “Blurred Lines” for copyright infringement[1] in a controversial decision that, while arguably based on a technicality, quickly ricocheted through the creative community, leaving many musicians feeling that they could no longer safely predict where the line would be drawn between inspiration and appropriation. In 2020, the Ninth Circuit took the opportunity to course correct in the case of Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin by clarifying that it had no intention of locking up basic musical motifs under the auspices of copyright law.[2] Now, two years later, the Ninth Circuit has doubled down on Skidmore’s direction in the case of Gray v. Hudson.[3]
Two members of the 1970s pop rock band Orleans have accused Warner Music of intentionally miscalculating royalty rates for digital streaming of recordings and shorting musicians of their proper compensation, according to a proposed class action in Nashville federal court.
If you're a practicing attorney in the entertainment or technology spaces, it's a safe bet that not a week has gone by in 2022 without someone asking you about nonfungible tokens, or NFTs.
By Jasmin Jackson · Listen to article Law360 (March 16, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT) -- A Georgia federal judge awarded counsel for entertainment platform WorldStarHipHop more than $95,000 in fees and expenses on Tuesday for helping the business obtain a $1.2 million default judgment in a trademark infringement suit over the use of its name and likeness.
“The only constant in life is change,” opined the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus. No business embodies this maxim quite like the movie business, which is currently in the throes of hammering out new prevailing formulas for compensating talent in the age of digital streaming. Starting with Netflix,...
Law360 November 8, 2021, 9:19 PM EST By Craig Clough Around 30,000 musicians received preliminary approval from a California federal judge Monday of a nearly $8 million settlement with the American Federation of Musicians and SAG-AFTRA in a class action challenging a fee the unions charged a roy...
Law360 October 14, 2021, 3:41 PM EDT By David Elder and Neville L. johnson Last month, former President Donald Trump filed an action in Dutchess County, New York, against his niece Mary Trump and the New York Times, alleging that investigative reporters employed by the Times had “persistently an...
Law360 October 19, 2021, 6:20 PM EDT By Beverly Banks A former “Key & Peele” showrunner is asking a California federal court to approve a proposed class of TV writers who allege that the Writers Guild of America West and Viacom subsidiaries did not pay them royalties for shows on streaming platf...
Written by admin In Written by admin In By Neville L. Johnson and Douglas L. Johnson Long-Arm Jurisdiction and Internet Defamation A California Court of Appeal recently decided that it could exercise its long-arm jurisdiction over a Canadian defendant in an online defamation case.1 Y...
©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle Variety Aug 30, 2021 12:09pm PT By Gene Maddaus A day after Ed Asner died at the age of 91, his lawsuit against the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan was allowed to live on. U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder indicated at a hearing that she would deny a motion to dismiss...
Law360 August 4, 2021, 4:58 PM EDT By Braden Campbell A Hollywood actress hit SAG-AFTRA with a proposed class action in California federal court alleging the union deceived members before agreeing to a series of collective bargaining agreements leading to slashed health care benefits for reti...
Kiara Belen, a well-known model, was filmed changing clothes in a fashion show’s dressing area for an episode of reality television program Shahs of Sunset. (Belen v. Ryan Seacrest Productions, LLC (2021) 65 Cal.App.5th 1145.) She signed no waiver or release, yet her nearly nude image was broadcast to a national audience without her consent.
Written by admin In Written by admin In By Neville L. Johnson and Douglas L. Johnson Negative Reviews Social media platforms, such as Yelp, can make or break a business, and law firms are no exception. It is important for attorneys to understand how to handle negative reviews by form...
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