Hollywood Docket: 'Jersey Shore' a criminal enterprise?; Lionsgate vs. Icahn; no law against 'Schmucks'

• Someone explain to Snooki what "RICO" means: A New Jersey judge has agreed to hear a case contending that producers of MTV's "Jersey Shore" engaged in a "criminal enterprise" by profiting from showing fights that cast members deliberately provoked. [AP]

• A German appeals court has found that most people use RapidShare for legal purposes so the file-hosting service can't be expected to filter copyrighted content without trampling on "fair use." [NewTeeVee]

• The Songwriters Guild of America thinks that the FBI is devoting resources to economic crimes "of much lesser magnitude" like bank robbery instead of investigating copyright piracy. [WhiteHouse.gov]

• The British Columbia Court of Appeals has delayed until Friday hearing an appeal by Lionsgate over a regulatory decision to annul its poison pill defense against Carl Icahn's hostile takeover bill. [THR]

• Higher powers have blessed the title of the new film, "Dinner for Schmucks." Rabbi Marvin Hier says, "I'm not going to say there should be a law that Hollywood should not use such a word." Mazel tov, Paramount and DreamWorks. [NYT]