HB Media Minute

HB Media Minute is moving! This is our final episode on this podcast page. Moving forward, you can find our new episodes at The Legal Landscape. Thank you to all our loyal listeners, and we hope you’ll continue to follow us over at the Legal Landscape!

Today we’re talking about Jack Daniels vs VIP Products or as it could and maybe should be called: Jack Daniels vs a company that makes a whiskey themed chew toy for dogs.While it sounds like a joke, it’s actually a crucially important case that spans a decade where the Supreme Court reversed a 9th circuit decision. Today, Michael lambert who is an Austin-based member of the firm’s intellectual property group is talking to IP Partner Rich Rochford in our New York office.

Today, the head of our Haynes Boone Media and Entertainment Practice Group, Laura Prather, will interview Susan Coughtrie, Co-Founder of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, about the developments in implementing protections against SLAPP suits in the U.K. and how we got here. Laura is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer who has litigated against SLAPPs in courts across the country and has advocated for and been instrumental in the passage of Anti-SLAPP laws throughout the U.S. recently returni...

Today, the head of our Haynes Boone media and entertainment practice group, Laura Prather, will interview Charlie Holt, Founder and Co-Chair of the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe about the developments in implementing protections against SLAPP suits in Europe and how we got here. Laura is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer who has litigated against SLAPPs in courts across the country and has advocated for and been instrumental in the passage of Anti-SLAPP laws throughout the U.S., ...

In a copyright case closely watched by content creators, the U.S. Supreme Court held, 7-2, that the first fair use factor—“the purpose and character of the use” —weighed against Andy Warhol’s use of Lynn Goldsmith’s black-and-white photograph of Prince to create a colorful silk-screen illustration of the musician that was later licensed to Vanity Fair without Goldsmith’s consent. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the majority, first explained that courts analyzing the first fair use factor...

Following a brief hiatus, the HB Media Minute podcast is back, and we’ve got a fun one today. The topic: a review of an Arizona Supreme Court ruling in April that was a big win for free speech. The case had interesting facts — pitting a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate against the host of a radio show in Arizona called The Conservative Circus — and raises important Constitutional issues about the extent to which citizens are free to offer their views of political candidates. Best of ...

In the latest HB Media Minute podcast, Associate Michael Lambert discusses laws in Texas and Florida that impose transparency requirements and limit the ability of social media platforms to moderate certain third-party content. The laws were enacted in response to decisions made to remove posts and de-platform some users, such as former President Donald Trump. Michael will summarize pending cases challenging the constitutionality of the Texas and Florida laws, and analyze how the U.S. Supreme...

In HB Media Minute, we take a look back at the famous defamation trial between movie stars and former spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. The daily coverage of the trial has subsided but there are still many important legal lessons that can be drawn from the case about asserting and defending defamation claims. Haynes Boone Associate Michael Lambert will analyze some of the competing claims in Depp v. Heard, the jury’s verdict, and some of the issues that are likely to be reviewed in an appe...

Fresh off Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases that could have a huge impact on how social media companies moderate and recommend content on their platforms. On the latest HB Media Minute, Haynes Boone Associate Michael Lambert discusses the two Supreme Court cases, which involve disputes over a federal law that generally protects Internet platforms like Twitter from liability over content posted by users. The federal law, known as Section 230, has attra...

In the latest episode of HB Media Minute, Haynes Boone Partner Ryan Patrick discusses how businesses can use civil enforcement procedures to investigate whether their trademarks and copyrights have been infringed -- and, if they establish an infringement, how they can go about seizing counterfeit products. The former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas from 2018-2021, Patrick details the prevalence of counterfeiting, the significant costs it imposes on businesses, how civil...