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  • January 21, 2025

    LED Screen Distributor Lied About $10M Debt, Jury Told

    The owner of a now-defunct LED screen distribution company lied to his Korean manufacturing partner about repaying an over $10 million debt in order to keep receiving shipments and pay himself a hefty salary, jurors heard as a civil fraud trial opened in California federal court on Tuesday.

  • January 21, 2025

    Apple+ Show Took Key Elements From Film, USC Prof. Says

    A University of Southern California professor told a California federal jury Tuesday that the Apple+ show "Servant" borrowed at least 10 original elements from an independent film, and likened the theft to someone stealing from Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit play about Alexander Hamilton by claiming the historical figure is fair game.

  • January 21, 2025

    Broad Museum Canned HR Exec For Defying Bias, Suit Says

    A human resources executive claims Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Broad wrongfully fired him in retaliation for opposing the termination of an employee who the executive says was targeted because he is a white man, according to a lawsuit filed in California state court.

  • January 21, 2025

    High Court Urged To Review Copyright 'Discovery Rule' Fight

    A shoe designer wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review her appeal of a Second Circuit decision reviving a photography studio's copyright infringement suit, saying the justices need to examine a judicial doctrine holding that copyright claims accrue when an alleged infringement is discovered.

  • January 21, 2025

    FCC Floats Rules For Emerging Flight Technologies

    The Federal Communications Commission wants to open the 450 megahertz ban up to drones and manned aircraft that land and take off vertically and has proposed rules that will "facilitate the robust use of the band at a range of altitudes."

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