At Lease One Person Will Be Watching Madonna’s Halftime Show Performance
Leading up to the Super Bowl, many viewers have already proclaimed that they will not be watching Madonna’s halftime performance. A small sample set can be found here, here and here. One website...
View ArticleTV v. Film
The critical debate over film versus television rages on. It’s a fight ’til the death. Who will be the winner? Stay tuned…
View ArticleJohn Devenanzio “Bananas” Over Dismissal
New York Superior Court Judge Lucy Billings recently dismissed claims brought by MTV reality star John Devenanzio against Time Warner and its subsidiary company HBO. John Devenanzio, or, as he is more...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Unauthorized Dancing with the (Disney) Stars Create Tension with...
The New York Times reports that tensions with North Korea are especially high after a recent state-run television broadcast featured performers dressed as Disney characters prancing in front of Kim...
View ArticleTV on the Net Is OK, Says Federal Court
A federal court recently denied a preliminary injunction request by television broadcasters to prevent a company from broadcasting television over the Internet. Aereo, a company founded last year,...
View ArticleWill Consumers Cut the Pay TV Cord?
In the debate over the future of pay TV, Bernstein Research analysts Todd Jeunger and Craig Moffet have opposing outlooks on the solvency of cable and satellite in their current forms, leaving a great...
View ArticleDJ Paulie vs. DJ Pauly D
Paul Delvecchio Jr., better known as “DJ Pauly D” from the MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” settled a trademark infringement suit with a Connecticut DJ who claims he has been referring to himself as “DJ...
View ArticleSkipping Television Ads with DVR: Fair or Foul?
Television networks including Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS have sued DVR services for providing a method to skip commercials such as Dish Network’s AutoHop and PrimeTime Anytime. Last week, Fox Broadcasting...
View ArticleNFL’s Knockout–League, Players and Community Brace Selves for Legal Game Day
As of January 17, 2013, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that lawsuits in the NFL’s concussion litigation now include over 4,000 former players and their families, who allege that the league...
View ArticleOne Prodigy Is Not the Same as Another: Everette Hallford v. Fox...
On February 13, 2013, U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III held that Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. had not infringed the copyrights of Everette Hallford with its show “Touch.” Kiefer Sutherland...
View ArticleProducer wants CAA and Ashton Kutcher to Pay Up for Failed DMV Show
Ashton Kutcher’s production company, Katalyst, and the Creative Artists Agency (“CAA”) are being sued for $12 million in damages by Emmy award winning producer, Hedda Muskat after her last brainchild,...
View ArticleSouth Park is Back at It
One of the oft-invoked reasons for South Park‘s success is that the show’s producers are equal-opportunity offenders; in other words, Trey Parker and Matt Stone don’t single out particular groups or...
View ArticleBroadcasters ask Supreme Court to Stop Aereo
On Friday, ABC, NBC, CBS and other major networks filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court challenging the legality of Aereo’s business model. For $8 a month, Aereo streams network...
View ArticleXX Marks The Spot
Chances are, if you are reading this article on a computer or any other web-enabled device, then during the course of your life you have seen both an automobile and a television. If you have seen both...
View ArticleAereo Granted Cert
The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari to a copyright dispute that could drastically change copyright law and how we all watch television. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc.,...
View ArticleSCOTUS Rules Against Aereo, A TV Streaming Service
Ruling Perceived as Limited in Scope Finding that Aereo’s new approach to streaming major broadcast networks’ content to subscribers paying for Aereo’s services did not avoid violating television...
View ArticleNeed For Change in Online Copyright Infringement Policy
In 2010, the Department of Homeland Security raided the home of copyright infringer Ms. Hana Beshara, of NinjaVideo, a site people would watch TV shows and movies through illegal streaming, according...
View ArticleFrank Sivero Sues The Simpsons: A Perfectly Cromulent Case?
With all of the good will generated by The Simpsons over the past few months, with its syndication on FXX and the launch of The Simpsons World app, we should have known that lawsuits would be coming...
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