Hollywood Docket: SAG strike 'difficult to envision'; iTunes class action; DJ AM settlement
Fri Jan 15, 2010 @ 11:19AM PSTEntertainment law news this morning:
- Sources tell lawyer/blogger Jonathan Handel that a SAG strike in the upcoming negotiating cycle is "difficult to envision."
- A federal judge in Illinois refused to dismiss a class action lawsuit against Apple for selling iTunes gift cards that advertised 99 cent songs and $1.99 videos and then raising prices for content in the iTunes store.
- Disney negotiations with Starz over digital rights threaten to impede Netflix's ability to offer movies from Disney.
- DJ AM's estate has settled a lawsuit filed over a South Carolina plane crash that left the celebrity disc jockey seriously injured, leading to death from an accidental drug overdose.
- The Village Voice has lost a $15.9 million judgment for ad-price fixing, which could lead to the alternative newspaper chain's bankruptcy.
- An 18-year-old Swiss woman has been hit with a fine and a two year suspended jail sentence after being convicted of file-sharing 4,200 songs and 270 movies.
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