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Media & Entertainment

  • May 05, 2025

    OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plan After Musk Suit Is Preserved

    OpenAI announced Monday that it was no longer pursuing plans to transition the ChatGPT maker into a for-profit enterprise, changing course just days after a California federal judge refused to throw out the bulk of Elon Musk's suit challenging those plans.

  • May 05, 2025

    'Punish' NSO For WhatsApp Hack, Meta Tells Jury In Closings

    Meta's counsel urged a California federal jury during trial closings Monday to "punish" Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group by awarding "significant" punitive damages, plus $445,000 in compensatory damages, for "vile" conduct hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, while NSO's counsel argued Meta never lost money and its demands are a PR stunt.

  • May 05, 2025

    Officials Seek More Depo Time In Live Nation Antitrust Suit

    U.S. officials have asked a Manhattan federal court to extend deposition time in a lawsuit accusing Live Nation of anticompetitive practices in ticket sales to live entertainment events, saying they need more hours to seek testimony from several entities and individuals who were recently disclosed in the case.

  • May 05, 2025

    Judge Rejects Media Matters' Bid To Move X's Case

    A Texas federal judge has shot down a bid by watchdog Media Matters for America to transfer X Corp.'s defamation case against it to the Northern District of California, saying Media Matters has waived any contractual right to transfer venues it may have had.

  • May 05, 2025

    Calif. Stations Must Pay $32K Over File Failings, FCC Says

    Two California TV stations have agreed to pay over $30,000 and to enter compliance plans after the Federal Communications Commission said they broke agency rules by failing to maintain and upload records regarding commercial limits in children's programming.

  • May 05, 2025

    Meta Users Refused 9th Circ. Appeal On Data Pay Cert Denial

    A Ninth Circuit panel summarily refused to permit Meta Platforms Inc. users to immediately appeal a district court decision rejecting class certification for their antitrust case alleging the social media giant would have had to pay for their data if it didn't lie about privacy safeguards.

  • May 05, 2025

    Google Ads Advertisers Ask For Class Cert. In MDL

    A group of advertisers in multidistrict litigation accusing Google of violating antitrust law through its control over key ad technology has asked a New York federal court to certify it as a class.

  • May 05, 2025

    EchoStar Says CBRS Revamp Won't Hurt Incumbents

    EchoStar said a cable and broadband industry group was wrong to portray a plan to raise power levels in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service as possibly detrimental to existing users.

  • May 05, 2025

    Defamation Litigation Roundup: Palin, Fox, Crime Podcasters

    In this month's review of ongoing defamation fights, Law360 looks back on developments in two voting technology companies' cases against news organizations that claimed they helped rig the 2020 election.

  • May 05, 2025

    NetChoice Sues Over Ga.'s New Social Media Age Limit Law

    Internet trade group NetChoice has sued the state of Georgia over a new law set to take effect this summer that would limit minors' access to social media, arguing the bill unconstitutionally infringes upon the First Amendment rights of both adults and the children the measure is purported to protect.

  • May 05, 2025

    Ex-Twitter Execs Can See Some Musk Texts In Severance Row

    Four former Twitter executives claiming they are owed $200 million in severance will be able to conduct a search of Elon Musk's text messages, but only when it comes to iMessage and not other messaging platforms like Signal, a California federal judge ruled.

  • May 05, 2025

    FB Exec Saw Messaging Apps As Threat, But Not WhatsApp

    A former top Meta executive for Facebook Messenger and Instagram provided limited backing Monday for Federal Trade Commission allegations the company bought WhatsApp and Instagram to squelch competition, telling a D.C. federal judge that while he saw messaging apps as a real threat, those worries didn't include WhatsApp.

  • May 05, 2025

    Trump Seeks 100% Tariff On Foreign-Made Movies

    President Donald Trump asked his administration to place a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, with a spokesperson telling Law360 on Monday that a final decision on the plan hadn't been made.

  • May 05, 2025

    Celebrity Doctor Says McMahon Accuser's Atty Defamed Him

    A celebrity doctor who has been fighting an information request from a former staffer for Vince McMahon accusing the former World Wrestling Entertainment executive of sexual assault and trafficking has claimed that the accuser's attorney defamed him and his practice during a press conference livestreamed on YouTube.

  • May 05, 2025

    DC Circ. Urged To Revisit Copyright Denial For AI-Created Art

    A computer scientist challenging the U.S. Copyright Office's requirement that only humans are eligible to register works has asked the full D.C. Circuit to review a three-judge panel's decision that rejected his arguments for why a two-dimensional artwork created by an artificial intelligence system he invented should be registered.

  • May 05, 2025

    Mass. Justices Eye Potential Bias In Police Use Of Snapchat

    Justices on Massachusetts' highest court Monday pressed a county prosecutor over a police department's use of a fictitious non-white "bitmoji" and name on Snapchat to target suspected gang members in the city of Lowell, in the latest legal challenge to law enforcement's use of social media surveillance.

  • May 05, 2025

    NFL, Retail Group Back NBA In Video Privacy Fight

    The National Football League and a retail industry group filed separate briefs supporting the National Basketball Association's bid for the U.S. Supreme Court to let it out of a video privacy class action over its video viewing data practices, arguing that the Second Circuit stretched the relevant law beyond Congress' intent.

  • May 05, 2025

    High Court Won't Hear Challenge To Miss. Ban On Pot Ads

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an opportunity to hear a First Amendment challenge to Mississippi's policy outlawing medical marijuana advertisements, effectively preserving a circuit court decision that upheld the state's ban.

  • May 05, 2025

    Justices Skip Recusal Case Over Fitbit Judge's Google Ties

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a patent owner's argument that a California federal judge should have recused herself from an infringement suit against Fitbit due to her alleged financial ties to the wearable tech company's parent, Google.

  • May 02, 2025

    Spyware Maker NSO Can't Cite Zuck In WhatsApp Hack Trial

    The California federal judge overseeing the damages trial to determine how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices on Friday beefed up many jury instructions in Meta Platforms Inc.'s favor, and also barred NSO from invoking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and ex-Meta executive Sheryl Sandberg to defend itself.

  • May 02, 2025

    Gores Group's Latest SPAC Leads 3 IPOs Totaling $792M

    Gores Holdings X Inc., the latest of several special purpose acquisition companies formed by private equity firm The Gores Group, began trading Friday after pricing an upsized $312 million IPO, the largest of three new SPAC listings totaling $792 million.

  • May 02, 2025

    Mozilla Says Google Search Remedies Are Major Threat

    A Mozilla executive told a D.C. federal court on Friday that preventing Google from sharing revenue from its search ads would eliminate the nonprofit browser developer's primary source of income.

  • May 02, 2025

    Epic Says Google, Samsung Can't Ignore Its Earlier Jury Win

    In its litigation claiming that Samsung colluded with Google to dodge a Play Store court order, Epic Games has pressed a California federal court to adopt the jury findings from a similar case it won against Google, arguing that there is "little to be gained from relitigating these issues."

  • May 02, 2025

    DC Circ. Allows Feds To Halt Funding To Int'l Media Outlets

    A D.C. Circuit panel has paused a lower court order that restored federal grant funding to international broadcasters while leaving intact other aspects of a ruling preserving the agency that oversees Voice of America.

  • May 02, 2025

    TikTok Chinese Data Transfers Draw €530M Irish Privacy Fine

    Ireland's data protection regulator has hit TikTok with a €530 million ($600 million) penalty for allegedly failing to adequately protect EU users' personal data that it transferred to China, the regulator announced Friday. 

Expert Analysis

  • What To Know About Latest Calif. Auto-Renewal Law Update

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    While businesses have about nine months to prepare before the recently passed amendment to California's automatic renewal law takes effect, it’s not too early to begin working on compliance efforts, including sign-up flow reviews, record retention updates and marketing language revisions, say Gonzalo Mon and Beth Chun at Kelley Drye.

  • Taking Stock Of FCC's New Spectrum Rule For Drones

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    While an order recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission is intended to provide drones with rapid access to a limited amount of spectrum in the 5030-5091 megahertz band, the commission envisions an incremental approach to full usage that will play out over the course of the coming months and years, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • 3 Coverage Tips As 2nd Circ. 'Swipes Left' On Tinder Claim

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    The Second Circuit's recent opinion in Match Group v. Beazley Underwriting, overturning Tinder's victory on its insurer's motion to dismiss a coverage action, reinforces three best practices policyholders purchasing claims-made coverage should adhere to in order to avoid late-notice defenses, say Lynda Bennett and Alexander Corson at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Proposed Legislation May Crack Down On Online Drug Ads

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    A bill recently proposed in Congress could serve as a sea change in how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates drug-related speech, with significant trickle-down effects on various corners of not only the drug industry but also on consumers and providers themselves, say Dominick DiSabatino and Arushi Pandya at Sheppard Mullin.

  • How Loper Bright Is Affecting Pending FCC Litigation

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    Pending challenges against Federal Communications Commission orders at the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright highlight that counsel must be familiar with the statutes, regulations and precedent relevant to the FCC to best navigate the rapidly changing compliance landscape, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Google And The Next Frontier Of Divestiture Antitrust Remedy

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    The possibility of a large-scale divestiture in the Google search case comes on the heels of recent requests of business breakups as remedies for anticompetitive conduct, and companies should prepare for the likelihood that courts may impose divestiture remedies in the event of a liability finding, say Lauren Weinstein and Nathaniel Rubin at MoloLamken.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • Defamation Law Changes May Be Brewing At Supreme Court

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's significant rightward shift has produced dramatic changes in many areas of the law, and the long-standing "actual malice" standard protecting speech about public figures could be the next precedent to fall, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Calif. Bill, NTIA Report Illustrate Open-Model AI Safety Debate

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    The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s balanced recommendations for preventing misuse of open artificial intelligence models, contrasted with a more aggressive California bill, demonstrate an evolving regulatory debate about balancing democratic access to this powerful new technology against potential risks to the public, say Stuart Meyer and Fredrick Tsang at Fenwick.

  • Behind 3rd Circ. Ruling On College Athletes' FLSA Eligibility

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    The Third Circuit's decision that college athletes are not precluded from bringing a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act raises key questions about the practical consequences of treating collegiate athletes as employees, such as Title IX equal pay claims and potential eligibility for all employment benefits, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • 'Greenhushing': Why Some Cos. Are Keeping Quiet On ESG

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    A wave of ESG-related litigation and regulations have led some companies to retreat altogether from any public statements about their ESG goals, a trend known as "greenhushing" that was at the center of a recent D.C. court decision involving Coca-Cola, say Gonzalo Mon and Katie Rogers at Kelley Drye.

  • Video Game Release Highlights TM Pitfalls Of App Store

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    The upcoming release of poker video game Balatro in Apple's App Store underscores the tradeoff of keyword advertising and trademark protection for indie developers who, unlike corporate counterparts, lack resources but seek to maximize the reach of their game, say Parmida Enkeshafi and Simon Pulman at Pryor Cashman.

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