{"id":2353478,"date":"2026-03-31T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2353478"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:00:20","slug":"kc-sports-entertainment-law-weekly-roundup-march-2026-5-kaufman-canoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kc-sports-entertainment-law-weekly-roundup-march-2026-5-kaufman-canoles\/","title":{"rendered":"K&#038;C Sports &#038; Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup &#8211; March 2026 #5 | Kaufman &#038; Canoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"html-view-content\">\n<p><strong>Sports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Entertainment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOCIAL MEDIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWSUITS OF THE RICH &amp; FAMOUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MUSIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FILM &amp; TELEVISION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A CA jury has found that actor <strong>Kevin Spacey<\/strong>&#8216;s absence from the final season of <strong><em>House of Cards<\/em><\/strong> was not due to a sex addiction sickness he was being treated for, a verdict that denies claims by the production companies behind the show that its insurers owed them around $100 million when he failed to return for the hit Netflix series&#8217; swan song. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"'House of Cards' Production Company Loses Trial Over Final Season (opens in a new window)\" data-externalized=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/house-of-cards-spacey-trial-final-season-1236547360\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">&#8216;House of Cards&#8217; Production Company Loses Trial Over Final Season<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A production company behind the hit <strong>MTV<\/strong> reality show <strong><em>Catfish<\/em><\/strong> has filed suit against two media companies for trademark infringement, claiming they plan to use the \u201cCatfish\u201d name for a competing television series called \u201cCatfish Murders\u201d without permission. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Catfish Picture Company, LLC v. VERSANT MEDIA, LLC et al (1:26-cv-02470), New York Southern District Court (opens in a new window)\" data-externalized=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacermonitor.com\/public\/case\/63788658\/Catfish_Picture_Company%2C_LLC_v_VERSANT_MEDIA%2C_LLC_et_al\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">Catfish Picture Company, LLC v. VERSANT MEDIA, LLC et al (1:26-cv-02470), New York Southern District Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li>State attorneys general reviewing <strong>Paramount Skydance<\/strong>\u2019s proposed $110 billion acquisition of <strong>Warner Bros. Discovery <\/strong>Inc. will assume they are \u201con our own\u201d and can\u2019t rely on federal antitrust authorities to fairly enforce the law, Colorado AG Phil Weiser said. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"States \u2018on our own\u2019 in Paramount-Warner review, Colorado AG says (opens in a new window)\" data-externalized=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/companies\/states-on-our-own-in-paramount-warner-review-colorado-ag-says\/ar-AA1ZoVVo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">States \u2018on our own\u2019 in Paramount-Warner review, Colorado AG says<\/a> Meanwhile, the $8 billion merger between Paramount and <strong>Skydance<\/strong> Media LLC divided DE\u2019s top legal tribunal as it ordered the media conglomerate to turn over deal documents to an investor. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Paramount Global v. State of Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer :: 2026 :: Delaware Supreme Court Decisions :: Delaware Case Law :: Delaware Law :: U.S. Law :: Justia (opens in a new window)\" data-externalized=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/delaware\/supreme-court\/2026\/129-2025.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">Paramount Global v. State of Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer :: 2026 :: Delaware Supreme Court Decisions :: Delaware Case Law :: Delaware Law :: U.S. Law :: Justia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>As adoption of AI in the US outpaces efforts to regulate it, organized labor is providing an important check on how the technology gets used, according to the head of the Hollywood actors\u2019 union. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Unable to stop AI, SAG-AFTRA mulls a studio tax on digital performers (opens in a new window)\" data-externalized=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/tv\/news\/unable-to-stop-ai-sag-aftra-mulls-a-studio-tax-on-digital-performers\/ar-AA1Vh5ot\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">Unable to stop AI, SAG-AFTRA mulls a studio tax on digital performers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.jdsupra.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports: Entertainment: SOCIAL MEDIA LAWSUITS OF THE RICH &amp; FAMOUS MUSIC FILM &amp; TELEVISION A CA jury has found that actor Kevin Spacey&#8216;s absence from the final season of House of Cards was not due to a sex addiction sickness he was being treated for, a verdict that denies claims by the production companies behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2216933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767122835_KC-Sports-Entertainment-Law-Weekly-Roundup-December-2025.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353479,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353478\/revisions\/2353479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}