10:00 AM PDT 6/6/2014 by Merle Ginsberg & Gary Baum
7:15 PM PDT 6/5/2014 by Debbie Emery
Evan Rachel Wood is being sued for $30 million by the producers of 10 Things I Hate About Life, who claim that she breached her contract when she pulled out of the production.
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3:31 PM PDT 6/5/2014 by Andrew Flanagan, Billboard
Beastie Boys' suit against Monster Energy has ended, with jurors finding against the beverage company to the tune of $1.7 million.
The suit, brewing for two years before the trial began last Tuesday in New York Federal Court, centered around Monster Energy's use of a Beastie Boys "megamix," put together by DJ Z-Trip, who gave Monster Energy representative Nelson Phillips the OK to use to use his mix for the soundtrack of a four-minute-long recap video of a snowboarding competition sponsored by the company.
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2:00 PM PDT 6/5/2014 by Eriq Gardner
One year ago, Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Media settled a lawsuit against California's Department of Motor Vehicles for backing out of a deal on a reality television show. The government agency paid $450,000 to make the lawsuit disappear.
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6:58 AM PDT 6/5/2014 by Eriq Gardner
An appeals court in Europe has delivered a big decision that knocks down the notion that browsing infringing material on the Internet can rise to copyright infringement.
The dispute stemmed from a service called Meltwalter, which monitors the media for mentions of particular companies and individuals and makes available reports on its website. News agencies have been upset at Meltwater for competing with their own services which charge companies for making commercial use of content.
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8:20 PM PDT 6/4/2014 by Debbie Emery
Jennifer Love Hewitt has filed a lawsuit against a company that was featured on Shark Tank, claiming that it used her likeness to promote a weight loss product without her permission.
The complaint filed Wednesday at the Superior Court of Los Angeles claims that The Marz Group has violated Hewitt's publicity rights by using her photograph since March 2014 to endorse Slim Spray, a line of oral weight loss supplements, energy boosters and sleep aids.
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2:24 PM PDT 6/4/2014 by Alex Ben Block
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association faced off against Dick Clark Productions before a three-judge appeals court panel Wednesday over the future of the Golden Globe Awards on the NBC network.
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1:47 PM PDT 6/4/2014 by Eriq Gardner
Toho Co. Ltd., the Japanese rights-holder of "Godzilla," has announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with New Orleans Lager & Ale Brewing Co. to resolve an intellectual property dispute.
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5:00 AM PDT 6/4/2014 by Eriq Gardner
5:00 PM PDT 6/3/2014 by Eriq Gardner
On Monday, Seven Arts Entertainment CEO Peter Hoffman filed a motion to dismiss the U.S. government's criminal allegations that he committing wire fraud in connection to $1.13 million given to him by Louisiana.
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2:36 PM PDT 6/3/2014 by Eriq Gardner
Godzilla looks to be a hit, amassing about $375 million in worldwide box office since being released nearly three weeks ago. But the more money it makes, the larger the stakes of a lawsuit that pits Legendary Pictures against Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison -- producers who were dumped from the project.
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11:19 AM PDT 6/3/2014 by Eriq Gardner
Just hours after Friends star Lisa Kudrow was ordered to pay $1.6 million to her former manager Scott Howard after a trial last February, the jury foreman Steve de Bode got on a red-eye flight to Atlanta. A former aircraftman in the British Royal Air Force, de Bode moved to the United States in 2009 and became an American citizen nine months before the trial started.
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7:07 PM PDT 6/2/2014 by Debbie Emery
Donald Sterling's legal issues aren't just with the NBA: A former employee is claiming racial discrimination and sexual harassment in a lawsuit that was filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday.
Maiko Maya King claims to have been in a romantic relationship with the 80-year-old Clippers owner from 2005 to 2011, and says that she was later subjected to "a steady stream of racially and sexually offensive comments" when she was employed by him, according to the lawsuit.
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4:32 PM PDT 6/2/2014 by Eriq Gardner
Using the Led Zeppelin IV typeface, and including a claim for the "Falsification of Rock N' Roll History," the heirs of songwriter Randy Craig Wolfe have finally lodged a copyright infringement lawsuit against Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and other Led Zeppelin parties over the 1971 song "Stairway to Heaven."
The complaint -- 43 years in the making -- was filed in Pennsylvania federal court Friday, and it's indeed a colorful one.
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