Hollywood Docket: Live Nation/Ticketmaster lawyers; Glickman out; Polanski sick

Entertainment law news this morning:

• Live Nation and Ticketmaster are in negotiations with federal regulators over concessions that would allow the companies to go ahead with a merger.The Justice Department is said to be concerned that the new combined company would have too much control over ticket prices. Live Nation and Ticketmaster may be forced to divest some assets including reselling subsidiary TicketsNow. Both companies are using high-powered lawyers to get this deal through the regulatory review process. Live Nation is relying upon attorneys at Akin Gump including Smith Davis, Joel Jankowsky, Charles Johnson, and Henry Terhune. Ticketmaster is using lawyers at Gibson Dunn including Michael Bopp and Mel Levine.
• MPAA chief Dan Glickman says he'll step down next year. Let the speculation over his replacement begin.
• Roman Polanski has been moved from Swiss detention for medical attention.
• Dole has withdrawn its defamation lawsuit against the Swedish filmmakers behind "Bananas!"
• Nicolas Cage filed a $20 million lawsuit against his business manager for failing to pay necessary taxes, placing him in risky real estate investments, and other claims of negligence and fraud.
• Shepard Fairey, the artist in a dispute with AP over the use of a photograph used to create a painting, is seeking to amend his complaint with acknowledgment he used a key AP photo of his source. Fairey's attorneys at the Fair Use Project at Stanford University say they will withdraw from representing the artist.
• Ari Emanuel has used the USC Institute on Entertainment Law & Business as more than an opportunity to rail against piracy and industry consolidation. At the conference, he also settled an old grievance with UTA chairman Jim Berkus, who once wouldn't hire Emanuel because of no law degree.