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Songwriters Who Unknowingly Signed Away Their Rights Finally Get a Real Second Chance: The Promise of Vetter v. Resnik (Guest Column)

Tim Kappel and Loren Wells of Wells Kappel LLP were the attorneys behind a recent copyright-termination lawsuit that saw songwriter Cyril Vetter re-acquire the global rights to a hit song he’d unknowingly signed away — for one dollar — in his youth. Variety welcomes responsible commentary, send submissions to [email protected]. One afternoon in the summer of […]

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Chester Cheetah Will Work With the Kool Aid Man, For a Price: How to Squeeze Ad Icons Into a Single Super Bowl Spot

Instacart’s Super Bowl commercial gets by with a little help from some friends. To stand out during Fox’s February 9 telecast of Super Bowl LIX, executives from the delivery service reached out to some of the nation’s biggest consumer-products companies, all of which happen to depend on Instacart to get everything from deodorant to frozen […]

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How Scott Weinger — Yes, Steve From ‘Full House’ — Crafted ‘Paradise’s’ Heartbreaking Episode 4

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from “Agent Billy Pace,” the fourth episode of “Paradise,” now streaming on Hulu and Disney+. When hearing the name Scott Weinger, it’s hard not to think of him as two characters: Steve, the on-again off-again boyfriend of DJ Tanner on “Full House” and “Fuller House,” and the voice of “Aladdin.” […]

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Kit Williamson Says His New Queer TV Comedy ‘Unconventional‘ Isn’t About Politics, but ‘Unfortunately Our Lives Have Been Politicized’: ‘I’m Not Going to Quiet Down’

Kit Williamson, best known for creating and starring in the Emmy-nominated series “EastSiders,” is back with “Unconventional.” Premiering on LGBTQ streaming platform Revry on Feb. 11, the TV comedy series stars Williamson as Noah, a queer millennial questioning the future of his 10-year marriage to his husband Dan (James Bland). At the same time, Noah […]

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