Esq. | Breaking Legal News | Entertainment Law News | The Hollywood Reportertag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14639342010-10-11T08:44:52-07:00Blog 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.TypePadDemocrat 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...hollywoodreporterLenders beware: A warning about Hollywood film librariestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013485f9c40a970c2010-08-04T07:51:00-07:002010-08-04T07:51:00-07:00Sky Moore is back with another attorney guest post, this time examining why film libraries aren't like real estate.... By Schuyler M. Moore Have you ever been a lender against a film library that isn't performing up to someone's projections...hollywoodreporterWhat the Boys & Girls Club thinks of the Comcast-NBCU mergertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f1a52ea3970b2010-06-23T11:00:40-07:002010-06-23T11:00:40-07:00By Eriq Gardner More than 10,000 individuals, groups, and companies have taken the opportunity to tell the FCC what they think about Comcast's proposed acquisition of NBC Universal. The comment period was one of the more active ones in the...hollywoodreporterCarly Simon brewing fresh lawsuit against Starbuckstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013482502a0b970c2010-05-28T10:21:31-07:002010-05-28T10:09:26-07:00By Eriq Gardner Carly Simon isn't finished kicking up a storm over Starbucks' decision to get out of the music business just five days before her latest album was scheduled to be released in its stores. In April, a Los...hollywoodreporterMeet the lawyers negotiating Disney's Miramax saletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20134803ca479970c2010-04-29T11:29:54-07:002010-04-29T17:33:42-07:00By Matthew Belloni EXCLUSIVE: As the Walt Disney Co.'s dumping sale of its Miramax specialty division slogs along as slowly as...well, as slowly as the average Miramax movie, we've been asked repeatedly which lawyers are repping the deal. Nobody's commenting,...hollywoodreporterYari bankruptcy: Creditor list includes Ed Norton, Paul Haggis, Warner Bros.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20120a8140f44970b2010-01-26T16:37:10-08:002010-01-26T17:08:10-08:00By Matthew Belloni What do Ed Norton, Paul Giamatti and writer-director Paul Haggis have in common? All are on the initial list of creditors in the recently filed bankruptcy of Bob Yari Productions. Warner Bros. and Sony's acquisitions group are...hollywoodreporterComcast-NBCU deal a bright idea for lawyerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2012876103012970c2009-12-07T11:51:58-08:002009-12-07T11:51:58-08:00By Eriq Gardner Q: How many lawyers does it take to screw out a GE lightbulb? A: 79 lawyers—and that's not counting some new names who will now help Comcast from getting screwed by the nation's antitrust luminaries. No joke,...hollywoodreporterDisney claims CFO Thomas Staggs' identity stolen to gain confidential documentstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20120a6527b5e970b2009-11-04T06:23:32-08:002009-11-04T06:23:33-08:00By Eriq Gardner See any odd comments in the press lately from Disney CFO Thomas Staggs? Perhaps they didn't actually come from Staggs, but rather an alleged ID thief who purported to be Staggs using a very unsophisticated trick —...hollywoodreporterDisney pollution case can go to trialtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20120a66eb794970c2009-10-23T12:29:55-07:002009-10-23T12:29:55-07:00By Eriq Gardner A California District Court is allowing a case to proceed to trial that claims The Walt Disney Co. has dumped contaminated waste near its Burbank studios for decades. Judge Dean Pregerson denied Disney's motion to dismiss the...hollywoodreporterEric Schmidt deposition reveals why it was OK to overpay for YouTubetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20120a61b4dee970c2009-10-06T12:39:40-07:002009-10-06T13:36:39-07:00By Eriq Gardner Google CEO Eric Schmidt gets a lot of credit for being a financial genius. But he doesn't seem like the shrewdest negotiator. CNET got ahold of a deposition transcript from last May in Viacom's litigation against YouTube...hollywoodreporter