Hollywood Docket: Lohan's mug shot; Teamster strike prep; Bergstein ordered to talk

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Hollywood Docket: Lohan's mug shot; Teamster strike prep; Bergstein ordered to talk

Wed Jul 21, 2010 @ 11:27AM PST
  • Lohanbooked For some reason, Lindsay Lohan's booking photo makes us think of Sharon Stone.
  • A possible Teamsters strike in two weeks could hit the television industry particularly hard, with one executive predicting it could be worse than the writers strike a couple years ago. [THR]
  • Today in David Bergstein News, Angry Judge Edition: A federal bankruptcy judge has swept aside objections and ordered Bergstein and his sometime partner Ronald Tutor to start talking in depositions. [THR]
  • Vampire Weekend has issued a statement in response to a woman suing for $2 million for unauthorized use of her image on an album cover. The band's label has also responded, saying it licensed the rights to use the photo with an agreement containing the necessary representations. [Billboard
  • Pirates are getting into the ISP business. The Swedish Pirate Party is planning to launch a new broadband service offering anonymity to customers. [TF]
  • A former propmaster on Fox's "House, MD" says he was fired from the show for not going along with "degenerate behavior" on the set. [TMZ]  
  • Some of the anonymous individuals who have been targeted for violating copyright in a massive litigation campaign are challenging the jurisdictional basis for the lawsuits. [Slyck
  • Google is telling the FTC to stop trying to reinvent journalism, arguing the problems faced by the news industry are business problems, not legal problems. [PaidContent]
  • More than 40 years after Franz Kafka's death, there's a big legal battle still going on over the author's unpublished papers. [The Independent]

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