"James Cameron Prevails in Another Avatar Lawsuit," reads a Thursday press release from 20th Century Fox Film.
If that sounds familiar, Fox also had a release on Jan. 21 that read, "James Cameron Prevails in Another Avatar Lawsuit." But hey, originality only counts in a courtroom.
A reprieve appears unlikely for former LAPD officer Rebecca Reyes, who in 2009 snapped the infamous photo of singer Rihanna's beat-up face on her personal cell phone.
A filmmaker is a step closer to revealing new details of the investigation into the murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen.
During a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, Beverly Hills Police Department attorney T. Peter Pierce told Judge James C. Chalfant that his client would share some documents related to its handling of the Chasen murder case -- just not anything about how the investigation itself went down.
On Wednesday, a jury in a New York federal courtroom found MP3Tunes founder Michael Robertson liable for infringing the works of Capitol Records, EMI and other record labels and music publishers.
AT&T is on the verge of cutting $4,000+ checks to each of the hundreds of victims of P.I. to the stars Anthony Pellicano.
More than a decade after Pellicano's activities became notorious, a class-action lawsuit filed against AT&T's Pacific Bell is being wrapped up. Last June, the parties submitted a preliminary settlement over claims that a few rogue employees at the telephone company were colluding with Pellicano, but it took many more months to finalize the terms.
Reese Witherspoon has backed out of a film, and a vitamin maker wants its money back for a product placement.
Natrol Inc. filed the lawsuit yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Envision, its chief Remington Chase and their product placement firm, Brand-in Entertainment.
If John Mayer is truly waiting on the world to change, he definitely has the watches with which to do it.
The 36-year-old singer has filed a lawsuit against Robert Maron, the watch dealer to the stars who sold him $5,000,000 in pricey timepieces. Mayer claims seven of them were designated as "counterfeit" by Rolex.
A lawsuit against YouTube founder Chad Hurley for posting footage of Kanye West's marriage proposal to Kim Kardashian is advancing to the next stage.
The couple, affectionately known as KimYe, alleges in the lawsuit that Hurley violated the confidentiality provisions of a "celebrity appearance release" by distributing footage of the proposal on MixBit. In reaction, Hurley brought an anti-SLAPP motion to stop the lawsuit.
Eunice Huthart, who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie, is telling a judge why her hacking claims against News Corp. belong in a United States courtroom.
Huthart is the first and only alleged victim to pursue a case in the country. Hundreds of others have proceeded in the U.K., where the Rupert Murdoch company has had to shell out nearly $400 million in settlement money. But Huthart's attorneys see advantages in the U.S. and are fighting to keep the case here.
In a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, an attorney for one of the nation's biggest copyright holders delivered closing arguments in a trial meant to determine whether one Internet service provider built its business on the back of stolen copyrighted work.
This might have been the courtroom scene that Viacom imagined when it first decided to sue YouTube in 2007. It's not. Instead, it's Capitol Records v. MP3Tunes, which could deliver a verdict very soon.
Viacom and Google announced today that they have resolved a massive copyright case.
The closely-followed lawsuit was filed in New York federal court in 2007. It was alleged that YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, had built its business by hosting without authorization tens of thousands of copyright-infringing videos, such as Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants.
A contentious legal battle over the use of the Beastie Boys' 1987 song "Girls" has come to a close with a settlement.
Toy company GoldieBlox, in a preemptive attempt to declare fair use of the track in a viral video, took the Beasties to court in November 2013. The band responded with a countersuit asserting copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition and misappropriation of publicity rights.
DVR pioneer TiVo Inc. has experienced great success in pursuing patent infringers, but the company will have to pay millions of dollars to one patent holder thanks to an appellate ruling on Monday.
