A federal judge has formally denied SAG-AFTRA’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought y Ed Asner and nine other union members in Edward Asner et al. v. the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan et al. The suit claims that SAG-AFTRA Health Plan plus trustees, have “illegally discriminate based on age and violates the Age Discrimination and Employment Act of 1967.”...Read More
Netflix’s animated series Castlevania producer Adi Shankar sued the company and fellow producer Kevin Kolde over breach of contract. While claiming that he had a verbal agreement to continue to be involved in any spinoff projects, with a 33% compensation stake, Netflix announced a spinoff without naming the defendant as a producer. Shankar’s lawsuit claims Kevin Kolde...Read More
Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon lawsuit against his former bandmates, Steve Jones and Paul Cook, over his licensing of the band’s music for Danny Boyle’s FX adaption of Jones’s memoir, “Lonely Boy: Tale From A Sex Pistol.” The lawsuit dealt with a contract dating back to the 1970s that allows their music to be licensed with...Read More
Cat Zingano is a UFC fighter that auditioned for a role in Halle Berry’s directorial debut on Netflix, “Bruised.” But when Zingano turned down a fight for UFC for the film because Berry asked her to, UFC canceled her contract, and subsequently, Berry turned her down for losing her UFC contract. Cat is now suing...Read More
Songwriter Kirk Johnston has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Nickelback, Roadrunner Records, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., and Live Nation over the band’s 2005 song “Rockstar.” Nickelback believes that the songs “are not substantially similar to an ordinary observer,” but a Judge feels otherwise. Johnston wrote his music in 2001, titled “Rock Star,” while he was...Read More
