ANTITRUST SUIT SEEKS TO BLOCK MERGER OF TWO PUBLISHING GIANTS »
By: Cassie Lewis
August 22 marked the end of the explosive three-week trial between the Department of Justice and two publishing giants attempting …
Student or Athlete?: A Look at the NCAA’s Plan to Compensate Athletes for the use of their NIL »
By: Daniel Keiser
The issue of how college athletes will be compensated beyond the traditional “cost-of-attendance” scholarships has come into clearer focus in …
Agency-Affiliated Production Companies: A Re-telling of a 1960s Hollywood Classic? »
By: Brandon Drea
Since April 2019, the Writers Guild and the Association of Talent Agencies (ATA), have been in a standoff surrounding the …
Antitrust Claim for Sunday Ticket Against the NFL and DirecTV »
By: Grant Welbourn
The NFL and DirecTV filed a writ for certiorari on February 10th after the 9th Circuit found that the exclusive rights between …
Growing ‘Trust Issues a Concern for U.S. Soccer, FIFA? »
By: Brandon Wurl
The United States Soccer Federation (“U.S. Soccer or USSF”) is no stranger to antitrust lawsuits. In 2017, the North American …
A Hard Sell: Proving Collusion in Major League Baseball »
By: Cameron Miller
“Bottom line, the players are upset…they are uniting in a way not seen since 1994.”
Collusion or Caution: What is Really Behind MLB’s Slow Free Agent Market? »
By: John Zubek
While Spring Training is beginning in Arizona and Florida, many talented MLB players are still without contracts. …
NCAA Internationalization: Antitrust Perspectives »
By: Cameron Miller
In remarks made to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics on October 30, NCAA President Mark Emmert …
Playoff or BCS: Is there really any difference? »
By: Zack Hadley
It’s truly the best time of year to be a college football fan. The season is fresh, the …
The Walking Dead Lawsuit: Vertical Integration is Still Alive in the Entertainment Industry »
Another vertical integration lawsuit has risen to life. Frank Darabont, the writer-director-producer of the most watched show on all of television, The Walking Dead, is in court, facing off against American Movie Classics (AMC), the network that broadcasts the hit zombie apocalypse show. The Walking Dead lawsuit is the latest in a long line of “vertical integration” cases in Hollywood that arise when a TV show broadcaster also produces the show via an affiliated entity. The broadcaster pays a license fee to the production studio, which is then shared with talent. The license fees are supposed to be negotiated between broadcasters and producers to reflect the fair market value of a given series. - Read more...
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