Esq. | Breaking Legal News | Entertainment Law News | The Hollywood Reportertag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14639342010-10-12T17:06:46-07:00Blog focusing on breaking legal news in entertainment and media. THR Esq. offers analysis on how industries in Hollywood are impacted and influenced by the law. Published by The Hollywood Reporter.TypePadHarvard's Larry Lessig on why 'Social Network' gets the Internet wrongtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013488258317970c2010-10-12T17:06:46-07:002010-10-12T17:09:41-07:00By Matthew Belloni Like almost every person with access to the Internet, Harvard law professor and digital rights advocate Lawrence Lessig has weighed in with his review of "The Social Network." Lessig, a big Aaron Sorkin fan from his "West...hollywoodreporterEverything you need to know about 'The Social Network' and the lawtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013487f7b6ea970c2010-10-04T16:15:12-07:002010-10-04T16:15:12-07:00Today we've got another attorney guest post, this one from Aaron Moss, a partner at L.A.'s Greenberg Glusker and co-founder of the firm's Law Law Land blog. He follows our thoughts on the subject with the best analysis we've seen...hollywoodreporterHow Mark Zuckerberg could sue over 'Social Network'tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4d63eac970b2010-10-04T11:15:11-07:002010-10-04T11:15:12-07:00By Eriq Gardner Each and every day, it becomes less likely that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will sue producers of "The Social Network." If he wanted to file a splashy lawsuit, he probably would have already, and, as we've reported,...hollywoodreporterPrivacy Wars: Netflix, Facebook and the 'Brokeback Mountain Effect'tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20120a763a959970b2009-12-18T09:15:05-08:002009-12-18T10:18:45-08:00By Eriq Gardner Will "Brokeback Mountain" shape rules concerning the responsibility of websites to guard user privacy? The debate over privacy on the Internet got much louder yesterday when a group of privacy advocate organizations filed a complaint with the...hollywoodreporterWhy Ron Livingston didn't sue Wikipediatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20120a7221b69970b2009-12-07T11:45:49-08:002009-12-07T11:45:49-08:00By Eriq Gardner Actor Ron Livingston and his lawyer may be in the process of showing others how to fight anonymous Internet pranksters. On Friday, the actor best known for "Office Space" filed this lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court....hollywoodreporterCase Tracker: Letterman's YouTube problem; Apple's Eminem problem; Jack Thompson's Facebook problemtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20120a6155acc970c2009-10-05T11:07:01-07:002009-10-05T11:07:01-07:00Here's a roundup of some stories we've been following: We covered the legal ramifications of David Letterman's admission to having an affair with "Late Show" female staffers last week. This appears to be a sensitive topic for CBS as the...hollywoodreporterIs the Facebook movie asking for litigation?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20115721c678a970b2009-07-20T15:16:49-07:002009-07-20T15:16:49-07:00By Eriq Gardner The forthcoming movie about the founding of Facebook is becoming more intriguing by the second. The movie is being written by Aaron Sorkin, produced by Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti for Columbia, and may...hollywoodreporterGoogle: Viacom's own employees uploaded videos on YouTubetag:typepad.com,2003:post-648577452009-03-30T19:26:55-07:002009-03-30T19:26:55-07:00By Eriq Gardner Remember that massive copyright lawsuit Viacom filed against Google over video uploads on YouTube? Still going. Justicia has recently uploaded a number of discovery motions and documents entered into the record in the $1 billion case. One...hollywoodreporterGo ahead and put Coldplay on your MySpace pagetag:typepad.com,2003:post-646321592009-03-25T23:40:46-07:002009-03-26T04:12:39-07:00By Eriq Gardner Allowing users on social network sites like Facebook and MySpace to embed music into their profiles was a fast-growing business until some of the major record labels started shouting about copyright infringement and demands to be paid...hollywoodreporterLitigators of America have added Facebook as a friendtag:typepad.com,2003:post-636509072009-03-04T17:21:37-08:002009-03-04T17:21:37-08:00By Eriq Gardner In the past year, Facebook has faced a library's worth of nasty ink. First, Scrabble-gate. Then Harvard-gate. Let's not forget law-firm-gate. The social-networking, user-generated, lawsuit-gathering hub inspired the most wrath when it recently tried to change their...hollywoodreporter