Esq. | Breaking Legal News | Entertainment Law News | The Hollywood Reportertag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14639342010-10-15T12:30:30-07:00Blog 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.TypePadPETA protects animals, but does it exploit filmmakers?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f5175d95970b2010-10-15T12:30:30-07:002010-10-15T12:32:02-07:00By Eriq Gardner Exclusive Warning: This post contains scenes of animal brutality, women stripping, and ahem, claims of aggravated copyright infringement. Over the past few years, few organizations have created more hot viral videos on the web than the People...hollywoodreporterNickelodeon refuses to cave in 'Dora' standofftag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e201348832296f970c2010-10-14T22:35:33-07:002010-10-14T22:35:33-07:00By Matthew Belloni and Georg Szalai Poor John Balestriere. The attorney for ex-"Dora the Explorer" voice Caitlin Sanchez really went for broke, firing off a threatening letter on Tuesday warning that if Nickelodeon didn't make his 14-year-old client a substantial...hollywoodreporterRare Jimi Hendrix song tangled in disputetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013488301661970c2010-10-14T09:34:41-07:002010-10-14T12:03:05-07:00By Eriq Gardner The Jimi Hendrix estate, Martin Scorsese and an old saxaphone player named Lonnie Youngblood are among those battling over a 40-year-old song entitled "Georgia Blues" that was recently featured on a Scorsese-directed PBS special on blues music...hollywoodreporterMother of teen 'sex addict' sues 'Tyra' showtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20134882fdcd6970c2010-10-14T09:32:33-07:002010-10-14T09:32:33-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Next on "The Tyra Banks Show": TV producers who kidnap teenaged sex addicts? The mother of a 15-year-old self-proclaimed "sex addict" is suing Warner Bros. Entertainment, Tyra Banks and executive producers of her talk show for...hollywoodreporterHarvard'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...hollywoodreporterWill Miami get to hear LeBron James games on radio?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20134881bdbbf970c2010-10-11T11:32:20-07:002010-10-11T11:32:20-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Sports fans in Miami might be in store for a little Halloween scare. On Oct. 31 at 1 p.m., both the Miami Heat and the Miami Dolphins are scheduled to play games. Both teams have deals...hollywoodreporterDemocrat fights back against Fox News lawsuittag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4fb590c970b2010-10-11T08:44:52-07:002010-10-11T08:44:53-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Last month, Fox News filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Democratic senatorial candidate Robin Carnahan, claiming she violated its copyright by using a Fox News clip in a campaign commercial against her challenger. Now, Carnahan has struck...hollywoodreporter'Deadliest Catch' trio rejoins the showtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4efb493970b2010-10-08T12:57:27-07:002010-10-08T13:13:17-07:00By Matthew Belloni EXCLUSIVE: Capts. Sig Hansen and Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand have agreed to return to "Deadliest Catch," ending a legal stalemate that threatened the Discovery hit reality series. "We're happy we worked everything out with Discovery," the trio...hollywoodreporterTaylor Swift could owe millions to ex-managertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20134880adceb970c2010-10-08T05:00:00-07:002010-10-07T19:57:09-07:00By Matthew Belloni EXCLUSIVE: Did Taylor Swift’s father conspire to cheat her former manager out of millions of dollars earned by launching the Grammy-winning country star? That’s the question before a federal judge in New York in a case brought...hollywoodreporter'Dora the Explorer' hits puberty, gets fired, sues Nickelodeontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4eab583970b2010-10-07T16:17:40-07:002010-10-07T18:37:20-07:00By Eriq Gardner "Dora the Explorer" actress Caitlin Sanchez is only 14. But she just filed a very grown-up multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Nickelodeon, MTV Networks and Viacom. Two years ago, Sanchez was hired to take over playing the lead character's...hollywoodreporter