Trade Secrets, Triggers & Takedowns – Enterrtainment Law Update Episode 185

In this episode, hosts Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett round up the month’s biggest stories in entertainment and media law. We revisit Price v. Garland and the new EXPLORE Act, which reshapes filming rules on federal land. In our AI Corner, we break down Anthropic’s record-setting $1.5 billion copyright settlement, Stephen Thaler’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court over AI-authored works, and a California lawyer sanctioned $10,000 for citing hallucinated AI cases. Plus: ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN now allow partial-AI music registrations, California enacts the nation’s first frontier-AI safety law, and the Seventh Circuit lets French Montana off the hook in Richardson v. Kharbouch after finding no proof of actual sampling. We also cover the Wu-Tang Clan album deemed a trade secret, Gibson’s trademark win over guitar shapes, the final dismissal of the Nirvana Baby lawsuit, Alex Jones’s failed Supreme Court bid, and Drake’s loss to UMG. For full links and case notes, visit entertainmentlawupdate.com.

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Trade Secrets, Triggers & Takedowns – Enterrtainment Law Update Episode 185 is an episode from Entertainment Law Update by Gordon Firemark.

This episode is 59:36 long.

This episode was published on Nov 5, 2025.

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