Film Law

Thank you all for a fantastic year! I appreciate every visit, your emails, your comments, your time. Uduak Law Firm’s Fashionentlaw.com blog clocked one year old this July 2011. Boy have we covered so much ground! When people experience the [...]

As an attorney who is intimately connected with the use of social media on the front and back end, I believe I can authoritatively say these are really exciting times we live in! Long time followers of this blog know [...]

Late last year, I wrote about a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Dr. Carlos Moore, author of Fela: This Bitch of a Life!, against Jay-Z, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith’s FELA! on Broadway. I stated the case would resolve and [...]

Folks, there are three legal issues raised in this lawsuit, all of which I have discussed in the past on prior cases. Issue #1 – Whether indeed Angelina Jolie has infringed (i.e. stolen)  the copyright of James Braddock as alleged. [...]

Gone are the days where celebrity couples divorce, write a tell-all book and keep it moving. Okay, not exactly. There have and will always be lawsuits where celebrities are concerned. Hulk Hogan has filed a recent lawsuit against his ex-wife [...]

I had the privilege of interviewing one of the legal sharks/rockstar attorneys in the licensing field, Greg Battersby. Greg is an Intellectual Property atttorney, an author and current General Counsel for LIMA. In my video interview, we cover the basic [...]

Does Kim Kardashian (KK) have a solid claim of defamation against her ex-publicist? The Reported Facts “Kim Kardashian is finally firing back at the guy who has been making claims her wedding was a sham — by hiring legal pit [...]

“Viacom and Bad Boy Records have agreed to pay $7.5 million to the bankruptcy trustee of Trans Continental Television Productions to resolve a dispute that arose when P Diddy took the reins of MTV’s Making the Band from boy band [...]

“The film reboot of author James Patterson’s iconic Alex Cross character won’t hit theaters until sometime next year, but the movie has already prompted a nasty legal fight. Producers of I, Alex Cross, in which Tyler Perry stars as the [...]

“Paramount Pictures is going to court to prove that it owns the copyright to Frederico Fellini’s classic film, La Dolce Vita. Since the film’s release in 1960, ownership on the film has changed hands several times, leading to a complicated [...]