Earlier this week, the Federal Communications Commission issued a reminder to broadcasters about their legal obligation to charge federal political candidates and their authorized committees the “lowest unit charge” for the same class and amount of time for the same period during the forty-five days prior to the date of a primary election and sixty days prior to the date of a general election.

In my post earlier this week, I described how one SDNY judge (Oetken) sanctioned copyright plaintiff's lawyer Richard Liebowitz and his firm nearly $100,000 for making a frivolous motion to disqualify an expert witness.

aig B. Whitney and Andrew J. Ungberg's article, "When the Supreme Court Closes a Door, It Opens a Window: Over One Year Later, Aereo May Help Put the Cloud Back on the Court's Horizon" is featured in Landslide.

Avoiding having to go to trial to defend the right of creators of docudramas, fiction, and "expressive works" to include actual persons in their works ...

Victor Willis, the former lead singer and songwriter for the famed 1970’s group The Village People, filed an action on April 25, 2011 in New York federal court against the band’s original publisher, Can’t Stop the Music, Inc.

In affirming the lower court's dismissal of claims by Lindsay Lohan and Karen Gravano that characters in the Grand Theft Auto video game are avatars of them, the N Y Court of Appeals...

Early Saturday morning, the Joint Policy Committee and SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal on a new Commercials Contract.

Just one day after the judge in Sarah's Palin's case against The New York Times announced that no reasonable jury could return a verdict for Ms. Palin...

In a quick update to my recent post on Young Thug's indictment, the New York State Senate has just passed State Senators Hoylman and Bailey's "Rap Music on Trial" legislation.

SHOOTonline, a publication that served the commercial production industry for over six decades, has announced its closure. The site was an important source of legal and industry information for advertisers, agencies, and production companies throughout its long history.

Last week, the D.C. Circuit reinstated Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission after she had been fired by President Trump last March.

Want to learn more about naming rights deals and the Papa John's controversy.

On March 18th, California Governor Newsom, at the urging of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, granted some relief to business owners in the state by suspending the requirements of the California

On July 25, 2024, SAG-AFTRA announced that it had called a strike under the SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement ("IMA"). The strike goes into effect as of July 26, 2024.

Here's what's happening at the intersection of sports, marketing, and entertainment law as we roll through Summer.

The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority recently banned a Tunnock's Tea Cake ad for objectifying women.

While legislation has moved slowly at the federal level, Ohio has joined Colorado and Arkansas as the latest state to enact its own version of the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketing...

Yesterday, President Trump announced that he is nominating Rebecca Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission.

big change in a small state may have made your skill contests easier: Vermont has amended its Contests and Sweepstakes law to permit marketers to require a purchase as part of a contest.

At its July 24, 2025 meeting, the Board of the California Privacy Protection Agency voted unanimously to finalize regulations on automated decisionmaking technology, risk assessments, cybersecurity audits, and other areas.