Los Angeles — A trial is needed to determine whether the longtime producer of the Golden Globe Awards had the rights to negotiate a deal keeping the glitzy awards show on NBC through 2018, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank issued two rulings in a lawsuit over whether a 1993 agreement granted the show's longtime producer, dick clark productions, the right to negotiate an extension with NBC last year. She refused to side with either dick clark productions or the show's organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Fairbank's rulings, released Tuesday, state there are issues a jury should decide in whether the agreement and the later actions by both sides meant the production company has rights to work on the show for as long as it airs on NBC.
The 2012 show, scheduled for Jan. 15, is not in jeopardy, although the ruling gives the association less time to...
U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank issued two rulings in a lawsuit over whether a 1993 agreement granted the show's longtime producer, dick clark productions, the right to negotiate an extension with NBC last year. She refused to side with either dick clark productions or the show's organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Fairbank's rulings, released Tuesday, state there are issues a jury should decide in whether the agreement and the later actions by both sides meant the production company has rights to work on the show for as long as it airs on NBC.
The 2012 show, scheduled for Jan. 15, is not in jeopardy, although the ruling gives the association less time to...
- 8/9/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Los Angeles — Attorneys for the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards and its longtime producers sparred Tuesday over whether an 18-year-old agreement gave the company a perpetual right to work on the show as long as it airs on NBC.
If the agreement is interpreted as the producers want, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association argues that it would lose crucial rights to its signature property – a glitzy awards gala that is worth millions of dollars.
The producers, dick clark productions, however, argue they received a now-disputed perpetuity clause in part for resurrecting the show after a scandal knocked it from airwaves in early 1980s.
Each side is trying to convince U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank, who after nearly five hours of arguments gave no indication on how she would rule. She has asked attorneys to address whether the producers' interpretation of a 1993 agreement with the HFPA – that it...
If the agreement is interpreted as the producers want, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association argues that it would lose crucial rights to its signature property – a glitzy awards gala that is worth millions of dollars.
The producers, dick clark productions, however, argue they received a now-disputed perpetuity clause in part for resurrecting the show after a scandal knocked it from airwaves in early 1980s.
Each side is trying to convince U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank, who after nearly five hours of arguments gave no indication on how she would rule. She has asked attorneys to address whether the producers' interpretation of a 1993 agreement with the HFPA – that it...
- 8/3/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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