Commercial Contracts
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An arbitrator thrashed 21st Century Fox Inc. and affiliates for their “reprehensible conduct” as he awarded $179 million to key players behind the TV crime drama “Bones” who accused the studio of wrongly withholding chunks of the show’s profits, according to competing filings made Wednesday in California state court… Read this piece in its entirety
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The artist who created the Fearless Girl sold unauthorized copies of the famous feminist statue in violation of trademark law and agreements with State Street Global Advisors Trust Co., which commissioned the artwork, the company has argued in a New York state court suit… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Sony Pictures Television Inc. is trying to kill off “Days of our Lives” to boost its own long-running soap opera, “The Young and the Restless,” the producer of the six-decade-old show alleged in a suit filed Monday in California state court seeking at least $20 million in damages… Read this piece in its entirety at
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Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and UMG Recordings Inc. have violated a provision of copyright law giving creators a “second chance” to assert rights over their works after 35 years, a group of musicians alleged in a pair of proposed class actions filed Tuesday in New York federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at
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A company that bought a vehicle billed as an “exceptionally rare” 1950s Porsche sports car sued Jerry Seinfeld on Friday in New York federal court, saying the automobile it purchased from the car-collecting comedian was a fake… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 