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RIAG Receives Media Litigation Awards
RIAG is pleased and proud to have received several awards this year for its media litigation practice.
CorporateINTL’s Media Sector Litigation Law Firm of the Year in California, US
AI’s Best Entertainment & Media Law Firm 2018 – California
International Advisory Experts’ Media Litigation award winner within California
Corporate LiveWire’s Media Sector Litigation Law Firm of the Year – California
RIAG Files Lawsuit against BBC and Sugar Films For Infringing Copyrights In The Cosby Show
On Friday November 2, we filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against BBC and Sugar Films for using copyrighted video clips and music cues from The Cosby Show in a program entitled Bill Cosby – Fall of an American Icon, which was produced by Sugar Films and broadcast by the BBC in June-July 2017.
RIAG Files Defamation Lawsuit Against The Hollywood Reporter
November 06, 2015Together with co-counsel Ian Brenson and Rodney Smolla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_A._Smolla), we filed a defamation lawsuit in federal court in Chicago against The Hollywood Reporter arising out of an article about the Sony cyberattack last December. See complaint: https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/thr-sony-hack-defamation-lawsuit.pdf. Our client, Nicole Basile, is a freelance payroll administrator who has been working on major film productions for the last several years. The Hollywood Reporter article singled out Nicole and falsely communicated, explicitly and by undisguised implication, that she was one of the hackers responsible for the cyberattack. Since the article came out, she has not been offered a single job commensurate with her experience. It has, in short, destroyed her career.
Trademarks 101 at the Beverly Hills Bar Association with Speaker Paul D. Supnik
Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP’s Paul D. Supnik will be the speaker at the August 6, 2015 Beverly Hills Bar Association luncheon program “Trademarks 101 – Selection and Protection Basics for the Business Attorney.” See the attached flyer for details.
Gordon Judge Solicitors & Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP Announce Collaboration
From Deadline.com: ‘The Blob’ Remake
RIAG partner Bill Grantham’s client Richard Saperstein is producing the remake of ‘The Blob’ with Brian Witten. See report at Deadline.com: http://deadline.com/2015/01/simon-west-to-direct-the-blob-remake-efm-goldcrest-1201355327/
RIAG Profile in the Los Angeles Daily Journal
A Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham LLP firm profile was recently featured in the Daily Journal.
RIAG Files “Libel In Fiction” Lawsuit
April 21, 2014RIAG and our co-counsel, Neville Johnson of Johnson & Johnson, and Prof. Rodney Smolla (author of the leading treatise, Law of Defamation), have filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ronee Sue Blakley – singer, musician and Oscar-nominated actress (Nashville). Read more
Court of Appeal Affirms Denial
March 27, 2014Our client, Dave Williams, was falsely accused on ABC’S 20-20 of being a conman and an internet predator. We sued ABC and his ex-girlfriend, Kelly Cahill, on his behalf. Read more
The UK Chapter of the BHBA Entertainment Law Section
March 05, 2014Entertainment law has always had international aspects, but now it is a truly global practice area. And given the exceptional quality of the seminars that the Entertainment Law Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association puts on each month, we began to consider the idea of opening chapters in other entertainment centers across the world. It fell to me, as the token Brit, to explore the possibility of a UK chapter. After numerous emails and phone calls, I had a list of around 50 UK media lawyers who had expressed quizzical interest (we don’t “do” unbounded enthusiasm). Read more