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...hollywoodreporterWill CBS sue over this awesome 'Star Trek' replica? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f51098e5970b2010-10-14T09:43:05-07:002010-10-14T10:14:58-07:00By Eriq Gardner Will the "Star Trek" fan who created a gigantic virtual replica of the USS Enterprise in the videogame "Minecraft get sued"? That's what some concerned citizens are asking after seeing this YouTube video that sports an insanely...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...hollywoodreporterIs this Katy Perry bikini photo worth millions?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e201348801519d970c2010-10-06T08:45:55-07:002010-10-06T08:45:55-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Marvix Photo Inc., a celebrity photograph agency, has filed a lawsuit against Fanpop, the operator of a network of online fan clubs, for posting 21 copyrighted photos of Katy Perry on vacation in the Bahamas. Marvix...hollywoodreporterMeet the billionaire the entire TV industry is suingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4dc6aef970b2010-10-05T12:50:01-07:002010-10-05T12:50:01-07:00By Eriq Gardner Get ready for a spectacular legal brawl -- the big TV networks have just picked a fight with an eccentric billionaire. On Friday, CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against FilmOn.com, which offers...hollywoodreporterNBCU, BBC win 'stolen' TV idea casetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4d5ee78970b2010-10-04T08:59:42-07:002010-10-04T08:59:57-07:00By Eriq Gardner A federal judge in New York has let NBC Universal, the BBC and the Travel Channel off the hook on allegations the studios were engaged in criminal racketeering by running a website that allowed people to submit...hollywoodreporterNikki Finke website sues for copyright infringementtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4c80d69970b2010-10-01T18:37:47-07:002010-10-01T18:17:59-07:00By Matthew Belloni EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke has just launched another legal attack. Mail.com Media Corp., parent company of Finke's Deadline.com, filed a copyright infringement suit today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Arthur Meyerovich and Alina...hollywoodreporterCan Hollywood get Google to support new anti-piracy bill?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4c5529b970b2010-10-01T11:45:37-07:002010-10-01T11:45:37-07:00By Eriq Gardner Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a new anti-piracy bill that would enable the government to essentially blacklist websites accused of copyright theft. Since then, many in Hollywood have voiced strong support of the measure. Of...hollywoodreporterJudge sides with Spielberg/DreamWorks; 'Disturbia' not too similar to 'Rear Window'tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013487943342970c2010-09-22T09:47:40-07:002010-09-22T11:07:04-07:00By Eriq Gardner A message to all those who are thinking about suing a Hollywood studio for ripping off an idea: Unless the studio agreed to hear your pitch, or unless you've got concrete evidence that your copyrighted material was...hollywoodreporterWatch out, Hulu. Meet the new Napster of televisiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f46ce183970b2010-09-21T09:58:09-07:002010-09-21T08:49:05-07:00By Eriq Gardner Every once in a while, an upstart company will come along and tout some obscure provision of copyright law that would seemingly upend everything we think we know about the legalities of distributing entertainment content. Allow us...hollywoodreporter