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19 Aug 2023, 1:47 pm
A new lawsuit This month, Sony Music Entertainment et al. filed a similar copyright infringement lawsuit against IA. [read post]
15 Aug 2023, 11:21 am
" The lawsuit was filed Friday in a US district court in New York by UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Concord Bicycle Assets, CMGI, Sony Music Entertainment, and Arista Music. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 6:18 pm
In recent years, the city has prioritized ticketing and towing in the downtown area and the River North entertainment district. [read post]
25 Jun 2023, 5:55 pm
Legal Fiction Meets Cold Reality As I’ve written before, loan-out companies are a legal fiction, albeit one that’s perfectly valid and incredibly common in the entertainment industry. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 6:07 am
[Eric’s note: this is the post you’ve been waiting for: Prof. [read post]
17 Jun 2023, 6:25 am
On the contrary, Jim Ryan, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment ('SIE') and the chief commercial opponent of this deal, said privately on the day it was announced [REDACTED]" It is not unheard of that an executive reacts to a merger announcement in one way and later, with a view to regulatory reviews, takes the opposite side. [read post]
27 May 2023, 12:23 pm
Rafferty started his career and spent seven years at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, a firm that has been consistently adverse to Microsoft for decades and is representing the most vocal critic of the Activision deal--Sony Interactive Entertainment--in its worldwide complaints, also in the UK. [read post]
26 Apr 2023, 5:39 am
That's not going to look good, though in a strictly legal sense it's not going to be relevant, just like it shouldn't be relevant (and hopefully wasn't relevant to the CMA) that Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan is a Brit. [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 12:36 pm
Conglomerates such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo consistently develop new gaming systems and games to enhance the user experience and keep up with the constant demand for new products. [read post]
9 Apr 2023, 12:35 am
Here's the relevant language from the patent application GameRant discusses (WO 2023/055447, PCT/US2022(034277)): "For example, an end user device may be a personal computer, a home entertainment system (e.g., Sony PlayStation2(R) or Sony PlayStation3(R) or Sony PlayStation4(R)), a portable gaming device (e.g., Soy PSP(R) or Sony Vita (R)), or a home entertainment system of a different albeit inferior manufacturer. [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 11:48 pm
There is always the possibility of appeals (as Microsoft's president mentioned in yesterday's Wall Street Journal), and with a view to an appeal a party would want to preserve its argument that it is actually entitled to unconditional clearance.The part about the CMA says nothing new (see my March 8 post on the UK merger review), and doesn't talk about the possibility of unconditional clearance.The plaintiffs' lawyers subpoenaed Sony, and Sony Interactive… [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 7:40 am
Activision's outspoken CCO Lulu Cheng Meservey exposed Sony's attitude on Twitter:Jim Ryan (CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment): "I don’t want a new Call of Duty deal. [read post]
13 Mar 2023, 12:49 pm
I previously described the plaintiff in this case, Rogan O’Handley, as: a California lawyer with elite credentials (UChicago Law, practice experience as a corporate finance and entertainment attorney) who nevertheless jumped onto the anti-“elites” Trump train and embraced Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him….O’Handley uses the online moniker “DC_Draino” (Drain the Swamp, get it?) [read post]
2 Mar 2023, 5:28 am
Entertainment Options There are entertainment options abound for visitors who check out Hell’s Kitchen. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 5:19 am
It was produced by Boss Film Productions and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2019. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 9:38 pm
In that filing, Microsoft's lawyers say that "since announcing the deal, Microsoft has repeatedly offered to enter into an agreement to license Call of Duty to [Sony Interactive Entertainment]—first for five years and then for ten, an unheard-of duration in the industry. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 10:27 pm
At the same time they'll evaluate proposed concessions and Sony's objections. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 1:55 pm
Example: "However, we consider that [Sony Interactive Entertainment]'s estimate overstates [Call of Duty]'s importance. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 4:47 am
(Even there, Sony doesn't seem to be genuinely worried about Microsoft, but at least it's a nascent market and not one in which Sony has been the undisputed leader for two decades.)The notice of remedies reiterates the CMA's preference for divestitures, and I believe there comes a point where a long-term license is closer to a structural than a behavioral remedy. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 7:57 am
But he never had to:A notice that was filed yesterday and just became public today (PDF) says that on Friday, Sony Interactive Entertainment "confidentially filed with [the FTC's in-house court] a motion to limit or quash Microsoft’s subpoena" and, therefore, "withdraws as moot its motion for extension of time. [read post]
