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Entertainment Law Update episodes

September 02 Bad Spaniels, Mayhem & Trademark Mischief – Entertainment Law Update 194
This month on Entertainment Law Update, Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett dig into parody and trademark tarnishment, documentary filmmaking and defamation, Lady Gaga’s Mayhem trademark victory, copyright royalty jurisdiction, and a significant Fifth Circuit ruling rejecting the Ninth Circuit’s familiar … Read the rest
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58 min
August 06 Bubble Lamps and Ice Cream Cones – Entertainment Law Update 193
In this episode of Entertainment Law Update, Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett discuss another month of important legal developments affecting creators, entertainment professionals, copyright owners, media companies, and intellectual property lawyers.
Episode Highlights
German Court Rules on AI Training … Read the rest
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56 min
July 02 Fair Use, Funkadelic & Tatoos – Entertainment Law Update #192
In this episode of Entertainment Law Update, Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett discuss another month of important legal developments affecting creators, entertainment professionals, copyright owners, media companies, and intellectual property lawyers.
This month's stories include an important fair use … Read the rest
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1 hr 14 min
May 27 Parody, Pastiche & Problematic Plaintiffs – Entertainment Law Update – Episode 191
In this episode of Entertainment Law Update, Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett break down major developments in entertainment, media, copyright, trademark, and AI law — including The Onion’s attempt to take over Infowars, new fair use rulings, Taylor Swift’s anti-deepfake … Read the rest
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1 hr 24 min
April 22 Ticketmaster Monopoly Ruling, AI Copyright Policy, and More Entertainment Law Updates – Episode 190
In this episode, we cover a major antitrust verdict against Live Nation/Ticketmaster, a new White House AI policy framework that leaves creators with more uncertainty than answers, and key developments in trademark, copyright, and First Amendment law.
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1 hr 16 min
March 25 Billion Dollar Rewind: “It’s Not What You Knew, It’s What You Did” (Entertainment Law Update – Episode 189)
Entertainment Law Update – Episode 189
Record Date: March 25 2026
Location: Los Angeles, California & Dallas, Texas
Hosts: Gordon Firemark & Tamera Bennett
Welcome to Entertainment Law Update — the podcast by entertainment lawyers, about entertainment law, where we … Read the rest
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1 hr 10 min
January 28 “Boop Boop Be Do” Meets “Alright, Alright, Alright” ( Entertainment Law Update – Episode 187)
In this episode of Entertainment Law Update, we unpack a wide-ranging set of copyright, trademark, and creator-economy developments—from the largest public-domain expansion in decades to high-stakes termination rights, celebrity voice trademarks, and courts drawing sharper lines around what copyright … Read the rest
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1 hr 14 min
December 17, 2025 Who Owns the Stage, the Script, and the Algorithm? Entertainment Law’s Wild Year-End
Welcome to Entertainment Law Update, your monthly rundown of the most important legal developments in the entertainment, media, and technology industries.
As 2025 comes to a close, the legal fault lines of the entertainment industry are impossible to ignore.… Read the rest
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1 hr 4 min
November 05, 2025 Trade Secrets, Triggers & Takedowns – Enterrtainment Law Update Episode 185
In this episode, hosts Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett round up the month’s biggest stories in entertainment and media law.
We revisit Price v. Garland and the new EXPLORE Act, which reshapes filming rules on federal land. In our AI Corner, we break down Anthropic’s record-setting $1.5 billion copyright settlement, Stephen Thaler’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court over AI-authored works, and a California lawyer sanctioned $10,000 for citing hallucinated AI cases.
Plus: ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN now allow partial-AI music registrations, California enacts the nation’s first frontier-AI safety law, and the Seventh Circuit lets French Montana off the hook in Richardson v. Kharbouch after finding no proof of actual sampling.
We also cover the Wu-Tang Clan album deemed a trade secret, Gibson’s trademark win over guitar shapes, the final dismissal of the Nirvana Baby lawsuit, Alex Jones’s failed Supreme Court bid, and Drake’s loss to UMG.
For full links and case notes, visit entertainmentlawupdate.com.
1 hr
September 24, 2025 Big Wins, Big Losses: Authors, Disney, Napster, and the Future of Copyright
The past few weeks have been packed with huge developments in entertainment, copyright, and AI law.
In this episode, we’re breaking down the biggest stories:
✔︎ Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors — what it really means (and why Judge Alsup may not approve it).
✔︎ Disney back in hot water over VFX software — the Ninth Circuit revives Rearden’s copyright claims.
✔︎ Jimmy Kimmel vs. George Santos — why parody and fair use won in the Second Circuit.
✔︎ Supertramp royalty fight — the Ninth Circuit says old publishing deals last as long as the songs earn.
✔︎ Napster loses its blanket license — and gets hit again in court.
✔︎ The F-word as a trademark? The Federal Circuit isn’t satisfied with the USPTO’s reasoning.
✔︎ Canada’s “right to de-listing” — edging toward a European-style “right to be forgotten.”
✔︎ Plus: updates on Kim Dotcom’s extradition and the D.C. Circuit reinstating the Register of Copyrights.
For more insights, visit:
🔗 Gordon Firemark’s blog: https://firemark.com
🔗 Tamera Bennett’s blog: https://createprotect.com
1 hr 11 min