Esq. | Breaking Legal News | Entertainment Law News | The Hollywood Reportertag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14639342010-08-26T09:11:26-07:00Blog 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.TypePadDisney, Warner Bros. sue to stop advertising on pirate websitestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f356f96c970b2010-08-26T09:11:26-07:002010-08-26T09:11:26-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. and the Walt Disney Co. have teamed up in a new legal effort to choke off the air supply of various websites that post and index links to pirated movies. The two studios are...hollywoodreporterHulu wins patent infringement casetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e201348655dc1b970c2010-08-20T11:36:20-07:002010-08-20T11:24:56-07:00By Eriq Gardner Hulu might not be the favorite website of TV creators like Steve Levitan ("Modern Family"), but the studio-owned video platform has a fan in federal court. Hulu has survived a patent infringement lawsuit brought by a company...hollywoodreporterHollywood Docket: Ninth Circuit returns Bratz to MGA; Costner dismisses promoter suit; Lohan jail tweets;tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013485a0d689970c2010-07-23T08:28:20-07:002010-07-23T07:36:50-07:00The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has made a stunning reversal of a lower court's decision granting Mattel ownership of the popular Bratz dolls. A three-judge panel ruled yesterday that the district court was in error in transferring ownership in...hollywoodreporter'Social Network' trailer: 'Let's SUE him in federal court!!!'tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013485653baa970c2010-07-13T09:17:48-07:002010-07-13T16:23:27-07:00Finally, a big-budget studio movie about intellectual property litigation! How excited are we for David Fincher's upcoming film about the origin of Facebook and the massive lawsuit that ensued? We've already found and read the excellent Aaron Sorkin script, so...hollywoodreporterFilm Academy targets GoDaddy in massive cybersquatting lawsuittag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133ee0b0583970b2010-05-20T09:31:07-07:002010-05-20T09:31:07-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is known to be quite litigious in protecting its Oscar rights. But dare we say it has outdone itself this time with a whopping 134-page lawsuit against domain...hollywoodreporterTime Warner Cable resisting new antipiracy campaigntag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133edbc54da970b2010-05-17T10:42:30-07:002010-05-17T09:37:26-07:00By Eriq Gardner Time Warner Cable says that recent lawsuits targeting tens of thousands of individual movie pirates are excessively burdensome and expensive, so it wants a court to intervene. In March, we first broke news that the U.S. Copyright...hollywoodreporterStudios back Viacom in YouTube litigationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013480ab8979970c2010-05-11T06:53:00-07:002010-05-11T06:53:00-07:00By Matthew Belloni Three of the major Hollywood studios have joined performing rights associations in supporting Viacom’s $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube. An amicus brief was filed Friday in New York by a coalition including Warner Bros., NBC Universal...hollywoodreporterGoogle goes on offensive, sues record label over copyrighttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133ed407cc6970b2010-05-05T09:32:32-07:002010-05-05T11:12:11-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Google has taken the rare step of asking a California judge to declare that by linking to copyright-infringing works on Rapidshare, the search giant is not facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs. Last year, Blue...hollywoodreporterClass action claims fraud in Second Life land salestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133ecd1651d970b2010-04-20T11:47:55-07:002010-04-20T11:34:24-07:00By Eriq Gardner A new class action lawsuit is calling the virtual world "Second Life" a bait-and-switch scheme. The plaintiffs claim that the virtual world, which was once looked at as the future of entertainment, lured thousands of customers by...hollywoodreporterFive simple rules for keeping your movie off the Internettag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e201310fd1e57c970c2010-03-23T13:06:41-07:002010-03-23T13:06:41-07:00Today we've got another attorney guest post, this time from Nancy Derwin-Weiss. Nancy is a partner in the Beverly Hills office of Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon, where she advises studio clients on marketing and content protection issues. She was...hollywoodreporter