Plaintiffs Robert and Aron Marderosian, represented by Attorney Michael Marderosian, filed a copyright lawsuit against the Knierim and Frazier, U.S. pairs figure skaters, for their use of the recording of “House of the Rising Sun.” Comcast Corp., NBC Universal Media, Peacock, USA Network, and U.S. Figure Skating are defendants in the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims...Read More
Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza are suing Universal over the 2019 movie “Yesterday” for “deceptive and misleading advertising.” The plaintiff’s argument centers around the actress Ana De Armas, who Woulfe and Rosza claim was a significant character in advertising campaigns but didn’t appear in the film. The consumer protection class-action lawsuit is based on...Read More
Australian production company Village Roadshow and long-time partner of Warner Bros.’s filed a lawsuit against them over The Matrix Resurrections’ streaming release on HBO Max. Village Roadshow was a co-financier on several films with Warner Bros, earning the studio $4.5 billion since 1990. The companies slipt royalties to a degree and collaborated on many projects. Now, Village...Read More
Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, now heirs of his former bassist and drummer are suing Sony Music in the U.K. over copyright ownership and potential damages. The lawyer representing the heirs claims that contracts from the 1970s “do not operate as a bar to our client’s claims.” Opposing them are the Hendrix estate and Sony,...Read More
A 20-year trademark lawsuit by Ivy ‘Supersonic’ Silberstein was recently settled. A judge sided with the graphic artist and verified that she was the sole owner of the ‘Ice Age’ character Scrat, a squirrel crossed with a rat designed by Silverstein in 1999. Silberstein began a campaign to recover her intellectual property in 2003 when...Read More
