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Analysis on profit participation, Hollywood accounting, right of publicity, and AI's growing effect on how entertainment IP is used, valued, and litigated.
Expert testimonyAugust 25, 2026
Despite extensive expert witness experience, a testifying expert was caught off guard when a hostile deposition targeted his basic qualifications rather than his analysis. Reflecting on an attack focused on exclusion rather than rebuttal, he shares key lessons on how attorneys can better prepare expert witnesses for aggressive questioning.
Request the ArticleProfit participationAugust 17, 2026
Three pending profit-participation suits — Kirkman v. AMC over The Walking Dead, TSG v. Disney/20th Century, and Slingshot v. Angel Studios — read like unrelated cases. Underneath, they're the same self-dealing pattern, repeating at three different scales: network, studio, and distributor.
Request the ArticleRight of publicity & AIAugust 10, 2026
A digitally reconstructed likeness in Avatar, and the lawsuit it triggered, frame a broader question moving through the courts: who controls a person's identity once it can be captured, scanned, and reused at industrial scale.
Request the ArticleValuation & damagesAugust 10, 2026
The methodology for valuing a film, television, or music library hasn't changed in thirty years. The inputs feeding it have — five concrete ways AI is now moving the number.
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