Reprising the Napster playbook, Goldman was lead counsel for the four major record companies—14 record labels in all—in a lawsuit against ringtonemobile appMyxer,[10][11][12][13] which was seen as "the mobile equivalent of ... the original Napster for music"[14] and allegedly had committed "tens of millions" of copyright violations.[15] After the court found Myxer liable for direct copyright infringement and rejected its fair use defense,[16] the case settled and Myxer shut down shortly thereafter.[17]
Early in his career, Goldman handled "the difficult legal research and brief writing" for the plaintiff victims in the O. J. Simpson civil wrongful death case.[28][29] His briefs in the case included one leading to the admission of Nicole Brown's diary entries, a crucial difference from the criminal trial. Lead counsel Daniel Petrocelli explained,
"The least explored aspect of the case is Simpson's motive. You cannot just say this murder was a culmination of domestic-violence incidents. You need to tell the jury a story. This was about a stormy relationship." Time magazine reported, "That strategy made the difference in understanding Simpson... Nicole's diary showed that she and Simpson were having fights in those last weeks. Their hostilities had taken a cruel turn. Simpson sent Nicole a letter that was a thinly veiled threat to report her to the IRS for failing to pay capital-gains taxes. Infuriated, she started to deny him access to the children.... She began to treat him like a stranger. That, Petrocelli said, is when three weeks of retaliation began. In that period, the lawyer argued, Simpson grew angrier and more obsessed with his ex-wife, developing a rage that resulted in death for her and Ron Goldman."[30]
The civil judge found the diary entries were admissible because they were pertinent to Nicole's state of mind, which in turn was relevant to Simpson's motive[31]—reversing a crucial ruling from the criminal case that excluded the diary as "inadmissible hearsay."[32] The civil court's novel ruling was upheld on appeal.[33] The Los Angeles Times wrote that this evidence "helped the plaintiffs tell their story of domestic violence" and show that when Nicole "rejected [Simpson] for good in the spring of 1994 ... he erupted in the same uncontrollable rage that had caused him to lash out at her in the past—only this time, he was brandishing a knife.[34] The $33.5 million civil verdict against Simpson "very nearly upstaged the president of the United States on the occasion of his State of the Union address,"[35] ending the case that "riveted America for two and a half years[.]"[36]
Music litigationedit
Los Angeles Business Journal identified Goldman as one of the nation's top music litigators.[3] He was "lead counsel in groundbreaking copyright infringement litigation" and "a veteran of high-stakes music industry skirmishes,"[37] handling numerous cases that garnered media attention.
Goldman represented Geffen Records in its disputes with Courtney Love concerning her recording contract and the Nirvana catalog.[38] Responding to Love's claims that she was "determined to radically redefine the nature of the music recording business for the next century,"[43][44] Goldman's legal briefs dismissed Love's suit as a "meritless, inflammatory diatribe" designed to "attract media attention."[44] The court dismissed most of Love's claims before trial,[45] with the remainder of the case settling on the eve of trial.[46]
defending John Newman in a suit for copyright infringement alleging that his #1 U.K. hit Love Me Again copied another song that also used the short phrase "I need to know now";[72]
obtaining a $7 million copyright judgment against a rap label that distributed infringing mixtapes;[73]
Goldman defended Hello! and ¡Hola! magazines in defamation suits brought by Kevin Costner for publishing an allegedly fictional interview with the actor/director concerning a child he purportedly fathered out of wedlock.[77]
In another defamation case, he represented Richard Simmons against the National Enquirer concerning an article alleging that Simmons had transitioned into a woman, before Simmons hired a different attorney to sue the magazine.[78]
In a case reminiscent of the Barbie Girl case, with its First Amendment overtones, he defended fashion designer Brian Lichtenberg in a trademark suit brought by pharmaceutical giant AbbVie objecting to Lichtenberg's parody sportswear—football jerseys with the words "Vicodin" and "Adderal" printed on the back where the player's name would ordinarily be found.[86][87]
His great-great-great uncle, Dankmar Adler, Liebman's son, was a noted architect and civil engineer who designed influential skyscrapers and mentored Frank Lloyd Wright.
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