https://www.collaw.edu.au/news/2022/05/26/entertainment-law-chelsea-donaghue
Studying law is a demanding pursuit, and every law student knows it’s easy to fall behind. For Chelsea Donaghue, being a backing singer and vocal coach meant she was often catching lectures between shows, flights, rehearsals and soundchecks. Since graduating, Chelsea has managed to marry her passions in a single career, working as a music and entertainment lawyer for Prahran firm, Sanicki Lawyers. We caught up with Chelsea to find out how she m...
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Film conglomerate Paramount Pictures was recently hit with copyright infringement allegations by Shosh and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son of the late author of the article ‘Top Guns’. The Yonay’s claim that the rights to Ehud Yonay’s 1983 article which inspired the storyline behind the ‘Top Gun’ film, reverted back to them on 24 January 2020.
The lawsuit filed alleges that Paramount did not reapply for the rights to produce or distribute the films sequel, before the end of production and its release in May 2022. The suit d...
Peter Dutton, the current leader of the Liberal Party and former Minister of Defence and Leader of the House in the Morrison government has recently lost his defamation case on appeal against refugee advocate, Shane Bazzi.
In February 2021, Bazzi tweeted a link to an article which quoted Dutton. The tweet allegedly claimed that refugee women were using false rape allegations as a means of entering Australia. This tweet also had a comment which labelled Dutton as ‘a rape apologist’. On first instance, the Federal Court held that th...
June
7,
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Mariah Carey, her co-writer Walter Afanasieff and the Sony Music Group are being sued by musician, Andy Stone for their well-known Christmas tune All I Want for Christmas Is You.
In a civil lawsuit filed in Louisiana, Stone alleges he co-wrote and recorded a song with the same name in 1989 and never permitted, consented or granted Mariah Carey a license to use the title. Stone claims Mariah Carey, her co-writer and Sony have ‘knowingly, wilfully and intentionally engaged in a campaign to infringe’ his copyright and have unjustly e...
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Sanicki Lawyers has acted in the successful defence of defamation proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria, in the matter of Srecko and David Lorbek v Peter King [2022] VSC 218.
On 5 May 2022, Justice Michael McDonald ruled that the defamation claim brought by luxury car dealers Srecko Lorbek and David Lorbek against Peter King failed on the basis of statutory qualified privilege, marking the end of a four-year long legal battle.
The proceeding concerned three Google reviews and a post on Law Answers by Mr King, which related to t...