Apple is taking a 2020 Kickstarter-backed action-comedy named “Apple Man” to court in a new 467-page lawsuit. Apple wants its trademark registration denied. Apple claims this is about their brand association. Vasyl Moskalenko, the director, has said, “if my registration would be denied, there are no guarantees that Apple wouldn’t demand to delete my film...Read More
Rapper Lil Yachty, Miles Parks McCollum, is taking the music NFT startup, Opulous, and its founders to court for violating his right of publicity. In the trademark infringement suit, the artist accused Opulous of using his “name and likeness without his express permission to raise over $6.5 million in venture capital funds.” Lil Yachty claims that...Read More
Russian chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili and Netflix head to court over the portrayal of Beth Harmon in “The Queen’s Gambit.” Harmon’s character is a fictional representation of Nona’s professional chess career, and she has filed a defamation lawsuit because the show’s script stated that she had “never faced men.” Gaprindashvili’s argument says that the “line...Read More
A jury has sided with Cardi B in her libel case against Youtube vlogger Tasha Kebe and has ordered Taska to pay $1.25 million. Cardi claimed that Tasha’s videos on her from 2018 and 2019 were intentionally trying to inflict pain and that she asked Tasha to remove them. Tasha did not, and Cardi sued...Read More
Screenwriter Nicole Gilbert-Daniels is suing Lionsgate Entertainment and Starz over their highly-recognized series “P-Valley,” which premiered in 2020 and resembled her play, “Soul Kitten Cabaret,” from 2011. Gilbert-Daniels reported that in 1994, Leroy Bobbit, an entertainment attorney, pitched the script as a musical TV drama to Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer. She left two copies of...Read More
