Disney faces legal and operational scrutiny
- Disney workers were among those arrested in a major human trafficking investigation.
- Catherine Bridge and Suzy Wilson manage key legal and intellectual property functions for Disney.
- Doniger / Burroughs continues to lead significant copyright litigation cases.
- Molly Lens is recognized as a top entertainment litigator in Los Angeles.
- Judith Finell has provided expert analysis on the intersection of AI and music.
Suzy Wilson, the current General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office, previously managed intellectual property and business legal teams as the Deputy General Counsel at Disney.
Stanisław Janecki reported on the wPolsce24 station and wPolityce.pl that the Polish government planned to divert President Karol Nawrocki's aircraft to Wrocław or Kraków to isolate him from events in Warsaw, but the army refused to comply.
Copyright litigation and legal precedents
Songwriters and producers of the 1989 work "Fish Market" initiated a lawsuit in 2021 against more than 150 music companies and artists regarding the unlicensed use of a rhythm pattern. Stephen Doniger, a partner at the Los Angeles firm Doniger / Burroughs, represents the plaintiffs in the Browne v. Clark litigation. Ken Freundlich is the attorney for defendant Bad Bunny in the same case.
Kenneth D. Freundlich has over 40 years of experience in intellectual property, copyright, and defamation law, having defended clients such as Pandora, LyricFind, Bad Bunny, and Walter Afanasieff.
The firm Doniger / Burroughs secured two of IP Law360's six major copyright rulings in 2022, specifically the cases of Unicolors v. H&M and McGucken v. Pub Ocean.
Industry experts in entertainment law
David Nimmer serves as Of Counsel at Irell & Manella and teaches copyright law at the UCLA School of Law. He has maintained the treatise Nimmer on Copyright since 1985, a work first published in 1963 by his father, Professor Melville B. Nimmer.
This includes the conversion of a civilian nitrocellulose plant in Walsrode, Germany, for military use, alongside the development of a facility in Gnaschwitz to produce nitroglycerin and related explosives.
The role of musicology and AI in copyright
Judith Finell was the testifying musicologist for the Marvin Gaye Estate during the federal district court trial regarding the song Blurred Lines.
In 2024, Finell addressed a Silicon Valley audience during a TEDx talk concerning the role of artificial intelligence in music.
Media coverage of entertainment law
Eriq Gardner reports on legal developments within the entertainment industry as a founding partner at Puck. He authors the weekly column "What I’m Hearing+" and appears on the podcast "The Powers That Be".
Gardner previously was the legal editor at The Hollywood Reporter and is currently employed at Puck.
Disney consumer product offerings
Walmart offers a "tonies Disney Winnie the Pooh Audio Toy" for sale.
Jan Hamacek, the external relations director at CSG, stated that the new production capacity will provide approximately a third of European consumption of key components for 155mm artillery shells. In early October 2026, Senator Elissa Slotkin visited Poland and Hungary to analyse democratic resilience and security.
Senators Roger Wicker and Christopher Murphy participated in closed-door strategic roundtables with European heads of state.
International operations at Shanghai Disney Resort
The Shanghai Disney Resort operates as a partnership company and is a component of the Walt Disney Company. The facility provides entertainment services to guests.
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