In my earlier article, Zuffa’s Piracy Fight– Winning The Battle, But Can It Win The War?, I described Zuffa’s multi-pronged attack against the piracy of its intellectual property. In that article, after addressing the different prongs of the attack, I concluded as follows: Despite all of its successes outlined above, it is important to remember that shutting down […]
Google and Zuffa Copyright “Fight” Continues
As you may recall from my earlier article back in November, Zuffa Takes the Piracy Fight to Google, Zuffa continued its battle against piracy by sending a Digital Millennium Copyright notification to Google. As set forth in my earlier article, Zuffa was attempting to get Google to stop having its search engine return results for a number […]
Bad Day for MMA in NY
Getting anything done in Albany is difficult and leads to frustration and efforts to legalize MMA are no exception. As I stated recently during an interview with TapouT Radio, I believed the odds of MMA being legalized in New York State this year would go up dramatically if Governor Cuomo, like Governor Patterson last year, included a provision in his Executive Budget lifting […]
Former Tapout Employee Receives $3.2M Jury Award
Following up on my earlier post, Former TapouT Employee’s Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Set for Trial in January – Claims Against Kreiner Dismissed, according to the Beverley Hills Courier, the former employee, Michelle Thomas “was today awarded $2.4 million in punitive damages by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury.” According to the article, “[t]he panel deliberated for about a […]
Another (much bigger) Victory For Zuffa
I have previously posted on Zuffa’s lawsuit against Bellator and Pavia — a post with earlier links is here, and, most recently posted on the Court’s denial of Bellator’s motion to stay discovery pending resolution of Bellator’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. As I noted in my most recent post: I will keep monitoring to see […]