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Tyler E. Baker, Christine Steiner; Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 14, 2012, previously published on February 10, 2012 With New York's Fashion Week upon us, the time is appropriate to examine the intellectual property protections available to some of the most prominent artists in popular culture: fashion designers. No one would seriously question the great artistic talents of many designers. Their imaginative,...
| | Broadcasts and Promotions Related To the 2012 NCAA Basketball Championships
Lerman Senter PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article February 13, 2012, previously published on February 9, 2012 The NCAA national men’s basketball tournament will begin on March 13, 2012, and end with the men’s final on April 2 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The women’s tournament will begin on March 17 and end with the women’s final on April 3 in Denver, Colorado.
| | Satellite Decoder Case Runs into Extra Time - Football Association Premier League Ltd. & others v QC Leisure & others [2012] EWHC 108 (Ch)
Joel Marris, Becket McGrath; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 13, 2012, previously published on February 2012 On 3 February, the High Court issued its judgment in the long-running, and closely followed, copyright infringement action by the English Football Association Premier League (FAPL) against importers of foreign satellite decoders and a representative sample of UK publicans. The case revolves around...
|  | Turkish Match-Fixing: Criminal Law's Interaction with Sport
Moroglu Arseven;
Legal Alert/Article February 13, 2012, previously published by World Sports Law Review on Winter 2011-2012 Discusses the recent match-fixing scandal in Turkey and investigation by the Turkish Football Federation.
| | Girls Gone Wild: Trademark Infringement or Publicity Stunt?
Donna Ray Berkelhammer; Sands Anderson PC;
Legal Alert/Article February 9, 2012, previously published on February 6, 2012 Did Madonna infringe the Girls Gone Wild video series trademark by recording a song with the same name? Probably not, but (with the typical lawyer disclaimer) it depends.
| | Is Lady Gaga An Employment Law Violator?
Clifton Budd DeMaria LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 9, 2012 It was recently reported that the former personal assistant to Lady Gaga filed a wage and hour lawsuit claiming that she was owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime in violation of both the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state labor laws.
| | Premier League Copyright Infringed But High Court Calls Time on Anti-Competitive Contracts
Mark A. Prinsley, Gillian Sproul; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 8, 2012, previously published on February 2012 Following the recent landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the UK High Court has ruled that using decoder cards imported from other Member States to show live Premier League football matches in UK pubs constitutes a “communication to the public” and can...
| | ALJ Bullock Rules On Supplemental Expert Report Motions in Certain Video Game Systems (337-TA-770)
Lisa M. Mandrusiak, Eric W. Schweibenz; Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article February 3, 2012, previously published on February 2, 2012 On January 31, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of Order No. 33 (dated January 9, 2012) concerning a motion for leave to serve a supplemental expert report and a motion to strike one of Respondents’ supplemental expert reports filed by the Complainants Creative...
| | FCC Adopts Closed Captioning Rules for IP-Delivered Programming
Adam M. Co, Seth A. Davidson, Alan L. Friel, Arthur H. Harding, Dominique R. Shelton; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 2, 2012, previously published on January 31, 2012 In accordance with Congress’ direction in the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (“CVAA”), the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has released a Report and Order (“Order”) that adopts rules governing the closed...
| | First Amendment v. Right of Publicity: Game On
Stacy Allen; Jackson Walker L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article February 1, 2012, previously published on January 30, 2012 Last year, I wrote about the federal district court opinion in Keller v. Electronic Arts, 2010 WL 530108 (N.D.Cal.), in which former Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller's class action against video game publisher Electronic Arts ("EA") survived a motion to dismiss. Keller alleged that...
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