John M. Gatti

01.15.21

Manatt Secures Judgment for Tracy Chapman in Copyright Infringement ...

A Manatt team led by entertainment litigation partner John Gatti successfully secured a $450,000 judgment on behalf of iconic songwriter and ...
08.20.20

Best Lawyers in America Names 76 Manatt Attorneys to 2021 List

Seventy-six Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2021 edition of the Best Lawyers in America report, which recognizes the nation’s leading...
08.11.20

Thirty-Nine Manatt Professionals Recognized by Super Lawyers in ...

Thirty-nine of Manatt’s professionals were named to this year’s Super Lawyers list in the organization’s Northern California and ...
04.23.20

Manatt Receives Top Band Rankings in Chambers USA 2020

Manatt has once again been ranked among the nation’s leading law firms in Chambers’ 2020 USA Guide.

05.31.18

Legal Ramifications of AR and VR—Déjà Vu All Over Again

New developments in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are as innovative as they are exciting. The technology is getting better by the ...

08.18.17

Instagram This: Fair Use and Social Media

Federal district courts wrestle every day with applying the fair use doctrine in copyright infringement cases. The doctrine presents a classic ...

12.31.14

Sizing Up 2014's Copyright Cases

The copyright world was abuzz for much of 2014, as several significant court decisions with potentially far-reaching ramifications were handed down ...

11.05.14

Fair Use Decision Causes a Stir

Of the myriad rules, principles and standards that compose our legal system, only one doctrine can lay claim to the distinction of having been ...

06.01.17

Ninth Circuit: Website Moderators May Be Agents of ISPs

On April 7, 2017, the Ninth Circuit revived a copyright infringement case filed by a paparazzi group against social media platform LiveJournal that ...
06.06.16

Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016: An Overview

The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) was signed into law on May 11, 2016 and gives trade secret owners a federal cause of action for ...
02.08.16

Be Reasonable: The U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Review the Standard ...

On January 15, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of Supap Kirtsaeng DBA Bluechristine99 v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ...
10.22.15

Ninth Circuit Rules That "Fair Use" Must First Be Considered Before ...

On September 14, 2015, the Ninth Circuit ruled in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. that, prior to sending a takedown notice under the Digital ...

06.09.20

No Breach, No Problem: Protecting Against Nonperformance in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic presents unique challenges to those who negotiate and draft agreements in entertainment, media and sports. If we’ve ...

06.22.16

ACC’s Sports and Entertainment Conference

Manatt is pleased to sponsor ACC’s Sports and Entertainment Conference at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies in Playa Vista, CA, on ...