Pop Culture
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LinkedIn Inc. has urged a California federal court to consider a recent Ninth Circuit decision in a Federal Trade Commission antitrust case against Qualcomm, saying the ruling backs up the professional networking site’s argument that it has no duty to let rival startup hiQ use automated bots to scrape its data… Read this piece in
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Pop star Lizzo has won a bid to nix counterclaims by three songwriters who say they deserve credit for her chart-topping song “Truth Hurts,” though the California federal judge handling the lawsuit decided to give the songwriters another chance to make their case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Second Circuit on Monday called a video game creator’s copyright suit “highly illogical,” nixing his claims that a recent “Star Trek” series ripped off key characters and plot points from his work in a decision riddled with references to the science fiction phenomenon… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Two of the owners of the landmark Philadelphia cheesesteak spot Tony Luke’s have been charged with carrying out an $8 million tax dodging scheme that involved false reports to government authorities and under-the-table payments to employees, federal prosecutors announced Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry want to know who has allegedly been shopping around photographs of their 1-year-old son Archie, which they say were taken from a drone without permission in an invasion of their privacy, according to a suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 