In the journey of every successful company there are opportunities that present themselves and decisions that need to be made. A new revenue stream presents itself and their eyes light up. Hold on though, this stream is outside of your core business and will require time,...

In a ruling which underlines the importance of properly structuring contracts and agreements when employing independent contractors to create "works for hire," a federal judge has ruled the heirs to photographer Bert Stern own the rights to images of Marilyn Monroe that Stern...

The Columbus Police Chief says Stormy Daniels' arrest was an "error" which stemmed from a misreading of the law. Other mistakes informed the situation, though - including the ongoing mistake of equating all sex work with "human trafficking."

The paperwork continues to fly in the ongoing legal saga of Stormy v. Trump v. Cohen v. Avenatti v. Etc., and it seems to some observers that Judge S. James Otero is getting irritated with the litigants. Given the behavior of the litigants and the media fanfare surrounding the...

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to zoning ordinances established by Sandy Springs, Georgia, in a case which got started back in 2006. Declining to hear the case means another application of the secondary effects doctrine will stand.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – For as much concern as the prospect of an obscenity law-enforcement “crackdown” has caused within the adult entertainment industry over the decades, obscenity prosecutions are something you rarely hear about these days. Sure, there were some minor rumblings of...

PHILADELPHIA – In the aftermath of major legal decisions, when describing an outcome as a big win for one or more party to the case, there’s often a “but…” which can frustrate and confound our understanding of the ruling’s significance. After all, if an appellate court eventually...

NEW YORK – It’s a good thing I don’t like popcorn, because if I were the kind of guy who likes to have a container of the stuff handy when watching drama play out, I’d need a bucket the size of swimming pool just to cover me through the end of the month in tracking the ongoing...

BENEATH THE FALLING SKY, NY – To me, the best part of any new or emerging entertainment-related technology isn’t the wondrous things we can do with it. It’s the guaranteed freak-out over the perils of the same technology we get to hear from people who are reflexively afraid of...

LOS ANGELES – I’ll be the first to admit that I’m easily confused at times – a function, perhaps, of my many years of dedicated pursuit of chemically-induced happiness. Still, there are times when my befuddlement stems not from my own eroding mental capacity, but from the fact...