In this week’s episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a defamation lawsuit filed by a former Manhattan prosecutor against Netflix over her portrayal in the “When They See Us”...more
Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss two topics in this episode of The Briefing. First, they talk about the defamation lawsuit that GEO Group, a private prison and detention center operator, brought against Netflix over the...more
Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss two topics in this episode of The Briefing. First, they talk about GEO Group's defamation lawsuit against Netflix over the show "Messiah," just dropped. Then, at 8:20, they move on to...more
In the past few years there has been a number of libel claims based on an unfavorable portrayal of a real person in either a television program or motion picture that is based on real life events. To name a few, there is the...more
The motion picture Wolf of Wall Street was based on a book of the same title written by Jordan Belmont. In the book, Andrew Greene, who was director, general counsel, and head of the corporate finance department at Stratton...more
Virginia Vallejo, a well known Colombian journalist and media personality, authored the memoir “Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar”. The book is a factual account of her romantic relationship with Pablo Escobar and a chronicle of...more