Update – Ninth Circuit Amends Opinion in Mavrix v. LiveJournal, Clarifying that Websites’ Use of Automatic Content Blocking Software Does Not Weigh Against Eligibility for Copyright Safe Harbor

On August 30, 2017, the Ninth Circuit published an amended opinion in Mavrix Photographs v. LiveJournal, a case which concerns the situations under which social media websites and other internet service providers can be held liable for copyright infringement for content submitted by users. The amended opinion removed language from the original opinion that could

Discovery Channel Avoids Liability for Reality Star’s Inflammatory Facebook Post (Hawke v. Discovery Communications)

Fans of the Discovery Channel’s survival television programs may be familiar with reality stars Mykel Hawke, previously featured in the channel’s program Man, Woman, Wild, and Mykel’s former military colleague, Joseph Teti, star of Discovery Channel’s Dual Survival. Hawke and Teti were, at one time, friends as well as business partners. The relationship ultimately deteriorated
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Six CDAS Attorneys Named to the 2018 Best Lawyers in America List

CDAS had six attorneys selected for inclusion in the 2018 edition of Best Lawyers in America list. According to its website, Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer review evaluation. More than 83,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and the organization received more than 13 million votes to date on

Sports Humor Site Fends Off Domain Name Claim from “Sports Center” Trademark Owner: ESPN, Inc. v. Will Applebee

In a decision highlighting the subtleties of trademark law and claimed “parody” websites, Will Applebee, a lawyer-turned-sports writer, has successfully defended his sports humor website, NOTSportsCenter.com, against ESPN’s recent efforts to seize its domain name to protect its flagship brand. ESPN’s SportsCenter is a popular daily sports news television program that offers breaking news, highlights,
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CDAS Brings in Partner Laura Sher to Expand its Entertainment and Television Practice

Laura Sher joined CDAS from Creative Artists Agency (CAA) on June 15 and brings 17 years of industry experience on all sides of the business to the representation of her clients in private practice. In TV Business Affairs in New York at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), she worked across scripted, alternative, digital and international client groups

Get Smart: Why Cost Cutting Should Not Elevate Forms Over Substance

In 1994, a computer scientists named Nick Szabo—a man many believe to be the creator of Bitcoin—outlined, in a blog post, how the need for corporate counsel would eventually be eliminated and replaced by a concept similar to vending machines. Now, two decades after Szabo’s original post, cutting-edge clients have begun to ask whether legal

#FyreFestival, the Music Festival that Never Was

Fyre festival, vigorously promoted by “social media influencers” such as Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski as a “luxury” music festival with tickets ranging in price from $1,200 to over $100,000 per person, was scheduled to take place over two weekends in April and two weekends in May on the “private” Bahamian island of