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LEROHL v. FRIENDS OF MINNESOTA

Civil Rights, Entertainment Law, Labor & Employment Law
Musician members of an orchestra providing free concerts in a city were independent contractors and not employees for purposes of Title VII and the...

MELCHIOR v. NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS, INC.

Contracts, Entertainment Law
When a motion picture production company accepted the benefits of a Release Agreement, it also assumed the obligations of the agreement, including the...

GATES v. DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
Because Briscoe v. Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (1971) 4 Cal.3d 529, is no longer the law when dealing with the tension between the right of...

WOLF v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (WALT DISNEY PICTURES AND TELEVISION)

Contracts, Entertainment Law
A contingent entitlement to future compensation within the exclusive control of one party does not make that party a fiduciary in the absence of other...

BROTHER RECORDS, INC. v. JARDINE

Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a Lanham Act trademark infringement action, defendant used a mark in a secondary, trademark sense to denote a music band, thus the classic fair use...

SOB, INC. v. COUNTY OF BENTON

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law
County had sufficient evidence of adverse secondary effects to justify enactment of an ordinance banning live nude dancing, and the ordinance 1) was...

GAMING WORLD INT'L, LTD. v. WHITE EARTH BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Entertainment Law, Indian Law
District court had jurisdiction over a petition seeking a declaratory judgment concerning a gaming contract between a casino operator and an Indian...

MARVEL CHARACTERS, INC. v. SIMON

Contracts, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
An agreement made subsequent to a work's creation which retroactively deems it a "work for hire" constitutes an "agreement to the contrary" under...

STREETSCENES v. ITC ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC.

Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
Where defendant fraudulently induced plaintiffs to invest money for an unsalvageable movie project, judgment for lost profits reversed, as lost...

GREENFIELD v. PHILLES RECORDS, INC.

Contracts, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Artists' transfer of full ownership rights to master recordings of music performances carried with it the unconditional right of the producer to...