Eriq Gardner Is 'Catfish' real or the best fake documentary ever? Here's the clue that might unravel the mystery. read more. THR, Esq. Movies Movies MORE >>

NINTH CIRCUIT OVERTURNS MATTEL'S TRIAL COURT VICTORY AGAINST MGA ENTERTAINMENT IN BATTLE OF THE DOLLS The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals filed an opinion today reversing a multi-million dollar verdict and injunction in favor of Mattel, maker of Barbie dolls, against upstart competitor MGA Entertainment which makes the Bratz doll line. MORE >>

It's been a very bad month for Chuck DeVore. On June 8, the Republican Assemblyman from Orange County finished third in the GOP primary for the right to take on Sen. Barbara Boxer (D). While I haven't done a line-by-line comparison of the tentative and final rulings, it appears that the one substantive change favored DeVore and his co-defendants. MORE >>

I’ve been collecting expressions I’ve heard or used during negotiations since the start of dealfatigue; most recently updating the page, Lingua Franca last month. So I was pleased to discover Variety’s slanguage dictionary here. MORE >>

Alan E. Garfield, Widener University School of Law, has published Calibrating Copyright Statutory Damages to Promote Speech. It is forthcoming in the Florida State University Law Review. Here is the abstract. Copyright and the First Amendment exist in tension. MORE >>