The number of problem gamblers has grown in recent years with an explosion of betting opportunities available at the touch of a smartphone screen. That is particularly true during this month’s annual “March Madness” college basketball tournament. In the digital age, table poker and slot machines are beginning to take the back seat. Instead, [...]
Sony Pictures pushed a Florida federal court Monday to force the producer of one of the films leaked to the public in the wake of a 2014 cyber attack to arbitrate its breach of contract claims, arguing that the parties had agreed to resolve all disputes that way. In its motion to compel arbitration, Sony [...]
Actor Harry Shearer, best known for voicing dozens of characters on "The Simpsons," filed a $125 million lawsuit French media giant Vivendi SA on Monday over royalties for his groundbreaking mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap.”Shearer, who co-wrote and starred in the 1984 fake rock documentary, says Vivendi is vastly underpaying for royalties for merchandise, [...]
George Lucas's company has declared war on a rival wielder of the lightsaber, and is suing the creator of a series of “Jedi schools” for using his brand and logo without permission. With a new “Star Wars” film set to debut in a few months, The Walt Disney Co.’s Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC filed a [...]
As Hamilton continues to sell out shows, the award-winning play is now fighting an unfortunate side effect of its popularity: knock-off merchandise The production company for the blockbuster musical "Hamilton" accused a popular online T-shirt retailer SunFrog of selling shirts with the "Hamilton" logo that weren’t authorized by the musical or its merchandise affiliates. HamiltonCo, the [...]
International Business Machines Corporation (commonly referred to as IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. IBM Corp. filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court against a startup founded by several [...]
