Weaver adv. Whirity
Jul 24, 2009OUTCOME: Confidential settlement.
Collaborator sued co-collaborator for copyright infringement.
Los Angeles, CA
Business Lawyer at Los Angeles, CA
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OUTCOME: Confidential settlement.
Collaborator sued co-collaborator for copyright infringement.
OUTCOME: Defeated $200M Cross-Complaint
Plaintiff British record distributor sued lsbel for breach of contract and was counter-sued for breach. In a jury trial, both claims resulted in $0 verdicts.
OUTCOME: Confidential settlement between the parties involving payments to our client Plaintiff Brown.
Charley Brown, who discovered the band Jane's Addiction, sued Peter Heur, his former partner in Triple X Records, for among other claims, failure to account and pay royalties.
OUTCOME: Record producer dismissed suit against our client Takei.
Legendary record producer Phil Spector filed suit against his former assistant, Michelle Blaine, and others, for embezzlement and other claims. Spector dismissed all claims against Takei.
OUTCOME: Confidential settlement between parties involving payments and re-negotiated royalties to our client Stevenson.
Member of seminal punk band The Descendants sued another member of the band, Greg Ginn, whose record label SST Records had rights to certain recordings of the band. Stevenson's claims included breach ... of contract and an accounting for past due artist royalties.
OUTCOME: Confidential settlement between parties involving payment to our client Collins.
Nancy A, Collins, author of short story The Love of Monsters, and White Wolf Publishing, publisher of the story and the World of Darkness role-playing games, sued Sony Pictures, Screen Gems and Lakesho ... re Entertainment for the film Underworld's infringement.
OUTCOME: Confidential settlement between parties involving payment to our clients Mohler and Wood.
The Calling band members Billy Mohler and Nate Wood sued fellow band members Alex Band, Aaron Kamin, and the band's managment company for failure to pay Mohler and Wood their share of artist's income f ... rom the record, company, touring, and merchandising.
OUTCOME: Verdicts in favor of several of the plaintiffs.
Cole and others sued the City of Santa Monica for harm to the values of their homes due to the City's operation of its airport, including allowing jets to use the small runway extremely close to the ho ... mes.
OUTCOME: $14.3 million verdict, including $10,000,000 in punitive damages --this was the 8th largest punitive damage award in CA during 2000
Music production company and music publisher sued Death Row Records owner Suge Knight and the company regarding artist and publishing royalties from the artist Kurupt. On claims for interference wit ... h contract, the jury's verdict was $4,300,000 in compensatory damages and $10,000,000 in punitive damages.
OUTCOME: Confidential settlements reached in every case.
Johnson & Pham, representing the above-mentioned IP owners, asserted claims of alleged infringement of their products protected by copyrights and/or trademarks and or licenses.