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On March 19th, 2024, Lego, the building toy giant, reached out to the police department of Murietta, California with an unusual complaint: that the department’s use of Lego faces to obscure the faces of suspects in arrest and booking photos, in compliance with newly passed California state laws, violated the company’s intellectual property rights. The

On the eve of Hollywood’s biggest evening, veteran screenwriter Simon Stephenson went public with a shocking accusation: the script for “The Holdovers,” the Paul Giamatti vehicle up for a stunning five Academy Awards, had been plagiarized from a previous project the “Paddington 2” and “Luca” writer had created and shopped around Tinseltown. But is this

Donald Trump made waves at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia this week by unveiling his latest business venture: sneakers. The gold-uppered, red-soled shoes, emblazoned with a bold embossed “T” at the tongue and on the upper, set fashionistas and legal pundits alike ablaze as they pondered what this new move could mean–and whether the new shoes

Large companies and brands are going to greater lengths than ever before to expand their holdings and protect the ones they’ve already locked down. From Disney to Mariah Carey to Starbucks, the list of megabrands coming down on small businesses for real or imagined infringement is growing nearly daily. The latest entry in this list

Last week, licensing talks between social media powerhouse TikTok and behemoth record label Universal Music Group, aka UMG, broke down. UMG was asking TikTok for a revamped licensing deal that paid artists whose work is featured on the platform (and their record labels) a larger share of TikTok’s profits. However, the two companies couldn’t get

Michael Jackson is arguably one of the most complex and least understood musical figures ever. From a hardscrabble childhood in Gary, Indiana, to moonwalking his way to the apex of the entertainment industry, Jackson’s legacy is convoluted and complicated, to say the least. But now, MJ Live, a live show featuring Michael Jackson impersonators which