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When it comes to tech powered by generative AI, we are on the verge of a Cambrian Explosion, a period during which we can expect an unprecedented variety of innovative and spectacularly...
Door-to-door storage services deliver packing crates to your house and pick them up once they are filled up. It is, apparently, a cutthroat business, at least in Chicago where plaintiff Doorage and defendant ...
An advertiser includes an infringing image in an advertising campaign. (It has been known to happen.) The copyright owner sues, seeking the profits earned by the advertiser during the run of the campaign. (This happens too.) How do you determine the extent to which, if at all, the advertiser's...
Tattoos again. (See here and ...
In 1927, Calvin Coolidge was president, the first commercial flight of Pan American Airways took off (leaving Key West bound for Havana), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded, singer Eartha Kitt was born, and artist Juan Gris died. And on January 1, 2023,...
The end of an era has come. The “traditional” SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract will expire on December 31, 2022, and on January 1, 2023, the “new” SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract, with updated compensation and editing structures, will be the only game in town. Fortunately, SAG-AFTRA and The Joint...
Plaintiff Michael Hayden is an American who, in the late 1980s, was living la dolce vita in Italy, working as an artist and set designer. Among his gigs was designing sets and props for films featuring Italian adult film star (and future member of the Italian Parliament) Ilona Staller,...
It’s that time again. The current SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract and the SAG-AFTRA Audio Commercials Contract (the "Commercial Contracts") will expire on March 31, 2021, and negotiations for successor contracts will begin early next year. The ANA-4A’s Joint Policy Committee on Broadcast Talent...
Plaintiff Jacob Aaron Leveille is a visual artist who lives in Florida. (You can check out his work on Instagram.) Defendant Ryan Edward Upchurch is a rapper, singer, songwriter and...
Pro baller Terry Rozier (our defendant) began his career with the Boston Celtics and now plays for the Charlotte Hornets. Rozier's reputation around the NBA as a “dangerous scorer” and “fearless...