Both attorneys and clients often feel frustrated at the end of a lawsuit with an apparently Pyrrhic victory: a favorable judgment, but then facing the task of actually collecting from the defendant. Whether the defendant (now having earned the title of “judgment debtor”) has any money, property or potential to pay the judgment seems like…
Judge Chin of the Southern District of New York issued a long-awaited (and, doubtless, soon-to-be-appealed) decision: dismissing, as a matter of summary judgment, the lawsuit that The Author’s Guild brought against Google. I leave it to each reader (and to each author) to determine whether the result is good or bad, but I must disagree…
With apps that invite photographs, videos or more, the app developer often wants to use those images for promotional purposes. The question is whether you can enforce an individual’s release of rights in their name and likeness (an “image release”) for promotional purposes if the release was only “signed” by an individual who enters into…