Sports & Entertainment

Entertainment:

AI & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Anthropic PBC’s bid to dismiss Reddit Inc.'s lawsuit accusing it of illegally scraping the social media company’s content to train AI models was largely denied. Judge allows most of Reddit's lawsuit against Anthropic to proceed
• Alabama’s attorney general said TikTok has agreed to pay up to $300 million and adopt new user protection measures to settle the state’s child-safety lawsuit. Attorney General Marshall Announces Historic Multi-Million-Dollar Settlement with TikTok - Alabama Attorney General's Office
• New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said he will seek as much as $219 billion in penalties against Meta Platforms Inc., after a jury found the company violated state law by deceiving the public about its speech and data privacy policies. New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law | Fortune
• Match Group Inc. is keeping a lid on records showing what its senior leaders knew and did — or failed to do — about sexual predators using its dating apps to hunt for victims, according to a lawsuit filed in DE. Match Group Sued Over Access to Dating App Safety Records - Global Dating Insights

FILM & TELEVISION

• CNN, MS Now and Politico filed a lawsuit seeking to allow their journalists to enter the White House grounds days after President Donald Trump revoked their access, turning to the courts in their fight over constitutional protections for the press. CNN, MS NOW, Politico sue over denied White House access | AP News
• AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. is seeking to raise almost $4 billion of debt to overhaul much of its capital structure, seizing on a box-office recovery to lure investors. AMC Is Overhauling Billions in Debt After Box Office Successes
• Paramount Skydance Corp. has settled lawsuits brought by 12 state attorneys general and the Writers Guild trade union, a move that will allow the company to close its historic $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Bonta defends Paramount settlement: ‘resolves the antitrust concerns’ - POLITICO

LAWSUITS OF THE RICH & FAMOUS

• A NY state judge sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 15 years for sexually assaulting "Project Runway" production assistant Miriam Haley, following a series of trials against the already-imprisoned former Hollywood producer. Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years after #MeToo sex crimes retrial
• A woman who accused Jay-Z of rape and sparked a yearlong legal battle between the rapper and prominent TX plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee has recanted her testimony and accused Buzbee of pursuing litigation on her behalf without her knowledge and without verifying her testimony. Jay-Z Rape Accuser Recants Allegations and Claims She ‘Never Met’ the Rapper
• Tyra Banks has told a CA federal court that Netflix and the producers of an "America's Next Top Model" docuseries used the same misleading tactic in their dismissal motion that they allegedly used onscreen: removing key material from the middle of statements to change their meaning. Tyra Banks says video shows 'ANTM' Netflix documentary twisted her words

MUSIC

• A 2^nd Circuit judge said the NY federal judge who quickly dismissed Salt-N-Pepa's bid to reclaim music copyrights from Universal Music Group's UMG Recordings "was incorrect" to dismiss the hip-hop duo's lawsuit for at least two albums. Rap duo Salt-N-Pepa ask Second Circuit to revive UMG copyright case | Courthouse News Service
• A CA federal judge will not throw out a lawsuit accusing pop singers Sam Smith and Normani of copying another song in their 2019 hit "Dancing With a Stranger," saying there were factual issues over the alleged similarity of the songs. Sam Smith and Normani's Dancing With A Stranger copyright case heads to trial