Esq. | Breaking Legal News | Entertainment Law News | The Hollywood Reportertag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14639342010-10-14T09:34:41-07:00Blog 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.TypePadRare 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...hollywoodreporterIrving Azoff responds to Axl Rose legal claimtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f50ad57c970b2010-10-13T12:52:29-07:002010-10-13T12:52:29-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this year, we reported on Axl Rose's bombshell claims against Live Nation chairman Irving Azoff. Now comes the response. Azoff, as head of Front Line Management, which once represented Guns 'n' Roses, is suing Rose...hollywoodreporterTaylor Swift could owe millions to ex-managertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20134880adceb970c2010-10-08T05:00:00-07:002010-10-07T19:57:09-07:00By Matthew Belloni EXCLUSIVE: Did Taylor Swift’s father conspire to cheat her former manager out of millions of dollars earned by launching the Grammy-winning country star? That’s the question before a federal judge in New York in a case brought...hollywoodreporterTiny astronaut sues big musiciantag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4dbd965970b2010-10-05T08:02:59-07:002010-10-05T07:18:36-07:00By Eriq Gardner Look closely at Dido's album cover for "Safe Trip Home." Spot the lawsuit? Bruce McCandless, the NASA astronaut pictured small and floating in space above the Earth, is now suing Dido, Sony Music, Arista Records and Getty...hollywoodreporterWME dragged into Live Nation antitrust casetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f4bf71c5970b2010-10-01T16:53:33-07:002010-10-01T18:38:08-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Does the William Morris Endeavor talent agency hold the key to proving that Live Nation is guilty of an antitrust conspiracy? One company thinks so. My Ampitheater Inc., is asking a California judge to compel WME...hollywoodreporterDo you read song lyrics online? Maybe not for longtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f451baa2970b2010-09-17T09:38:14-07:002010-09-17T09:07:54-07:00By Eriq Gardner Read lyrics to your favorite songs online while you still can. That's probably a little alarmist, but a federal court in California is being asked to order LiveUniverse, which maintains several websites that display song lyrics, to...hollywoodreporterBret Michaels files $5 million lawsuit against concert promoter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e201348649101c970c2010-08-18T10:13:27-07:002010-08-18T10:01:55-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Two weeks ago, Bret Michaels showed up in Syracuse ready to perform a concert. He arrived at the venue only to find that the gig had been postponed without his knowledge. Now, the rocker and "Celebrity...hollywoodreporterLive Nation joins effort to pre-sue concert bootleggerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20133f305ea79970b2010-08-12T11:49:56-07:002010-08-12T11:31:41-07:00By Eriq Gardner Legal trend alert! Concert organizers are suing bootleggers before they actually bootleg. Live Nation has now joined AEG in filing a lawsuit, this time against several John Does in advance of this weekend's OzzFest, featuring Ozzy Osbourne,...hollywoodreporterEx-manager claims YouTube video proves Lil Wayne lied under oath tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e2013486221d13970c2010-08-11T09:45:56-07:002010-08-11T09:45:57-07:00By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: Rap superstar Lil Wayne has a lil' problem on his hands thanks to the discovery of a YouTube video that allegedly shows he perjured himself in a deposition in a multi-million dollar civil case. The claim...hollywoodreporterAEG Live sues concert bootleggers before they bootlegtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d69069e20134861b6d6d970c2010-08-10T10:19:33-07:002010-08-10T16:13:20-07:00By Eriq Gardner Just because the Mile High Music Festival this weekend in Denver hasn't happened yet, and just because the bootleggers haven't yet set up shop, doesn't mean that hundreds of individuals haven't already been sued. AEG Live has...hollywoodreporter