Hollywood Docket: Music price-fixing case returns; Fox vs. FCC (video); Coldplay song theft?

Entertainment law news this morning:

• A federal appeals court has reinstated an antitrust class action lawsuit against the major record labels over alleged price-fixing of online music. A district court had dismissed the case due to failure to state a claim, but a panel at the 2nd Circuit ruled yesterday that there was enough evidence of a conspiracy, including alleged uses of "most favored nation" clauses to set a floor of 70 cents per track going to the labels, for the case to proceed. Here's the ruling.
• A re-argument at the Second Circuit yesterday over FCC indecency policies towards broadcasters suggested that the appeals court may rule that the agency's current policy violates the First Amendment. The judges aggressively challenged a government lawyer to defend the justness of its approach to profanity and sexual references. C-Span has a video of the proceedings.
• News organizations are having trouble with unauthorized iPhone apps. Fox has filed a complaint with Apple over one app that aggregates headlines from FoxNews.com's mobile site and uses the network's logo and trademark. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the NY Times says the publication's legal department is looking into a NYT mobile reader app on the market.
• Lawyers are haggling of the timing of a planned Jan 22 hearing in the Polanski case.
• A lawyer for Charlie Sheen has filed a motion in court requesting that cameras be barred from a hearing over allegations that the actor put a knife to his wife's throat. 
• Coldplay is being sued once again on allegations of song theft. A man has filed a lawsuit in L.A. Superior Court claiming he wrote the songs "Yellow," "Clocks" and "Trouble." 
• It may be interesting to follow how Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" performs at the box office this weekend upon its wide release. The film has already been circulating in file-sharing networks for a few weeks and Jackson recently blasted the leakers. "My work is an art form, although I do intend to share this art with the world, I cannot continue to do so at a cost to my own enterprises and investments without any chance of coming up short on production costs," he said in an interview.