16 Apr 2026 - Pedro Pascal v Pedro Piscal: actor in legal battle with Chilean spirit brand
Pedro Piscal pisco is latest Chilean brand to resemble a Hollywood name – and others have fought off the lawsuits
15 Apr 2026 - Ricorso rigettato, “Miss Italia” è il titolo del nuovo album di Ditonellapiaga
La decisione del tribunale di Roma. La cantautrice: "È bello sapere che espressione artistica sia considerato un valore da tutelare"
14 Apr 2026 - Music Quote Release: ECJ Clarifies Pastiche Rule for Sampling
ECJ considers sampling in ongoing dispute between Kraftwerk and Pelham as permissible pastiche, provided a creative dialogue with the original is recognizable.
4 Apr 2026 - Yale Law School scholars back UMG in Drake’s ‘Not Like Us’ defamation fight, arguing rapper ‘consented’ to Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics - Music Business Worldwide
Two amicus briefs filed on Friday (April 3) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit have backed UMG Recordings in its defense against Drake’…
25 Mar 2026 - Lebo M sues comedian Learnmore Jonasi claiming Circle of Life misrepresentation
Grammy winner seeks more than $20m in damages over mistranslation of The Lion King chant
24 Mar 2026 - Alert Türkiye – LeMan (Doğan Pehlevan) - Cartooning for Peace
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Cartooning for Peace, and Cartoonists Rights condemn the violence and arrests targeting the opposition satirical magazine LeMan in Istanbul.
24 Mar 2026 - Afroman victorious in ‘Lemon Pound Cake’ defamation case | CNN
The deputies who raided the rapper’s house in 2022 lost a civil lawsuit. Their complaint? Being mocked in his viral music videos.
3 Mar 2026 - Italy wins claim over name of Spanish restaurant chain The Mafia Sits at the Table
After years of court action and complaints, trademark office in Spain rules name is counter to ‘public order and morality’
24 Feb 2026 - Jimmy Kimmel Writer Roasts Thin-Skinned Trump at House Hearing
The comedy writer said the president is their “best and worst” audience.
20 Feb 2026 - Satirische strip over Brugse schepen breekt cartoonist zuur op: krant zet samenwerking stop
Na een dispuut met illustrator Bart Vantieghem trekt Krant van West-Vlaanderen de stekker uit een satirische strip over de Brugse burgemeester. Saillant detail: een mail van schepen Franky Demon bracht de bal aan het rollen. “Deze beslissing heeft niets te maken met politieke druk”, klinkt het bij de krant.
20 Feb 2026 - ¿Quién es Fabrizio Fauna? Fabrizio Romano logra el cierre de cuenta parodia en Twitter
¿Quién es Fabrizio Fauna? ¿Quién está detrás de la cuenta parodia dedicada al desprestigio de Vinícius Júnior? ¡Te lo contamos!
17 Feb 2026 - Stephen Colbert Says CBS Blocked James Talarico Interview
Stephen Colbert revealed CBS lawyers blocked his 'Late Show' interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico over FCC equal time rule concerns.
3 Feb 2026 - In Under 500 Words, a Judge Weaponized Wit to Free the Child Detained by ICE
Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.
3 Feb 2026 - Trump Assails Grammys and Threatens to Sue Trevor Noah Over Epstein Joke
President Trump declared the awards ceremony “virtually unwatchable” and accused Mr. Noah of defamation over a joke he made that appeared to tie the president to Jeffrey Epstein.
25 Jan 2026 - No laughing matter as Lebanon goes after its comedians
Authorities crack down on stand-up as jokes about Jesus and period pads incense sectarian groups and prosecutors
21 Jan 2026 - Satire, Nazi Symbols, and Consistency in Strasbourg
Why the European Court of Human Rights' judgement in Mladina d.d. Ljubljana v Slovenia (No. 2) stands out.
13 Jan 2026 - Lange juridische strijd in zaak-Schild en Vrienden voorlopig voorbij: Cassatieberoep Dries Van Langenhove verworpen | VRT NWS: nieuws
Het Hof van Cassatie heeft alle cassatieberoepen verworpen die Dries Van Langenhove en vier anderen hadden ingesteld tegen hun veroordeling. Dat betekent dat er nu in ons land een punt gezet wordt na zijn jarenlange juridische strijd en dat zijn straf in de Schild en Vrienden-zaak definitief is.
13 Jan 2026 - Charlie Hebdo tried to humiliate me. Instead it debased the freedom of speech it symbolises
12 Jan 2026 - Charlie Hebdo sued over Crans-Montana fire cartoon
A Swiss lawyer and his wife have filed a criminal complaint against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published a cartoon about...
5 Jan 2026 - Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron
A Paris court found them guilty of "malicious" bullying towards the wife of the French president.
1 Jan 2026 - South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name
Toby Morton now owns trumpkennedycenter.org, which advertises new year performance by the ‘Epstein dancers’
24 Dec 2025 - Supreme Court: Employee's Liquor Disclosure Not Defamation
Supreme Court: Employees Liquor Disclosure Not Defamation Court cites public interest in exposing superiors request, overturning compensation order
22 Dec 2025 - Smith County teen suspended from school for Instagram comment, sues
A student at Gordonsville High School was suspended for an Instagram comment made to a friend. Now, he's suing on First Amendment grounds.
19 Dec 2025 - Washington professor gets win in land acknowledgement case from Ninth Circuit
The university had argued that its own interest in avoiding campus disruption outweighed the professor's First Amendment interest.
16 Dec 2025 Op-Ed: Hawaiʻi’s regulation of humorous political speech is no laughing matter
Mathew Hoffmann is legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents satire site The Babylon Bee in its lawsuit challenging Hawaiʻi’s law that criminalizes the distribution of “materially deceptive media” that may risk harming “the reputation or electoral prospects” of politicians. He argues the law violates the First Amendment by targeting speech, including political memes, humor and satire.
13 Dec 2025 - Tjeerd Royaards is the winner of the European Cartoon Award 2025
Live from the Central Library of The Hague, the European Cartoon Award, one of the most prestigious awards for political cartoons published in Europe, announced the names of its Winner, Runners-up and Honourable Mention.
9 Dec 2025 - When a Joke Becomes a Security Case: The Mario Moubarak Case - Daraj
In the Arab world, this logic intensified when political satire itself shifted from the permissible to the forbidden. In Lebanon, which is supposedly a more open space, the same scene keeps repeating in different forms: summons, legal prosecutions, sectarian pressure, and digital incitement that turns comedians into legitimate targets.
3 Dec 2025 - Ex-Barclays Banker Loses Unfair Dismissal Suit Over Offhand Joke
An ex-Barclays Plc investment banker, who alleged that an offhand comment taken out of context cost him his job, lost an unfair dismissal lawsuit after a London court ruled he had demonstrated dishonest conduct.
23 Nov 2025 - Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Rather than publishing the findings or pursuing additional research, Meta called off further work.
20 Nov 2025 - “WE’RE SORRY” artist applies to ECtHR for protection of his freedom of expression rights
ODEE has applied to Strasbourg to uphold his right to freedom of expression. His case is one of the first before the ECtHR to consider the balance between artistic freedoms in satire and political parody and intellectual property rights.