Fox Broadcasting and 20th Century Fox have filed an appeal of their claim that Dish Network’s AutoHop service infringes on their copyright and is in breach of their contract, so there should be a restraining order to stop its service.

The appeal was filed with the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday after they were turned down for a temporary injunction by the U.S. District Court.

Read the complaint here

The owners of the rights to the literary works of the late William Faulkner have settled a lawsuit with The Washington Post and Northrop Grumman over a Faulkner quote that was used in a full-page Independence Day advertisement.

The parties entered a stipulated agreement to drop the lawsuit earlier this week, which a Mississippi judge has now accepted.

The suit was one of two filed in late October. The other is a copyright and trademark action against Sony Pictures Classics over a quote from one of Faulkner's works in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. Sony has yet to reply in court to those claims.

In the lawsuit against Northrop Grumman, it was alleged that part of a 1956 Harper's Magazine essay on freedom was appropriated — specifically, the quote, "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

The quote was accompanied by a large photo of an American flag, Northrop's corporate logo and more text. The military contractor also was charged with putting the advertisement on its website along with the notation, "(c) 2011 Northrop Grumman Corporation."

Lee Caplin, a Hollywood producer (Ali) who manages Faulkner’s literary estate, says that details of the settlement are confidential.

In other entertainment law news:

A claim against the Walt Disney Co. for intentionally failing to pay about 30 current and former employees overtime wages and provide breaks they were entitled to has been settled out of court, but a class action suit was still filed Thursday so that a L.A. Superior Court judge can certify the settlement, according to Dennis Moss, an attorney in the case.

The contentious guardianship battle over Ariel Winter has prompted a settlement agreement that gives control over the estate of the Modern Family star to her father, Glenn Workman, but otherwise leaves her group of professional advisors in place to take care of her acting career.

A stipulated settlement was filed on Wednesday in L.A. Superior Court.

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According to the stipulation, Workman is now the temporary guardian of the estate and is responsible for the review and execution of any professional services agreement pertaining to Winter's career. However, the stipulation also says that Workman is to largely "defer" to Winter's reps, including Brillstein Entertainment Partners; Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown; and ICM Partners.

California wants another shot to protect a law intended to dissuade paparazzi from reckless driving in pursuit of a celebrity.

In November, in the criminal case of Paul Raef, who was alleged to have been stalking Justin Bieber at 80 miles per hour on a Los Angeles road, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson rejected a 2010 law as being an unfair impingement on the First Amendment.

The judge accepted the viewpoint of Raef's attorney, who argued that if California wanted to dissuade paparazzi from driving dangerously, it should just increase the penalties for reckless driving, not adopt a broad rule that could arguably be used to punish those on the road in pursuit of news-gathering or some other form of an "intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of another person for a commercial purpose."

On Wednesday, attorneys for California petitioned for an appellate review of Rubinson's decision.

Age of the Hobbits, which a federal judge enjoined Monday from release in the U.S. under that title, has a new name; as indicated on producer The Asylum’s website, the movie is now called Clash of the Empires.

A judge has thrown out Ronald Tutor's lawsuit against Aramid Entertainment, David Molner and others who were  instrumental in forcing the involuntary bankruptcy of his film businesses.

Tutor, the CEO of a large construction company who got into the movie business and teamed up with investor David Bergstein, brought the lawsuit alleging he had paid Aramid and related entities $2.9 million to settle claims related to a ThinkFilm loan he had made to finance movies. The lawsuit charged that Aramid got the money and Molner signed an agreement on behalf of Aramid that released certain claims.

Upset that creditors like Aramid then launched a scorched earth war of involuntary bankruptcy and other lawsuits, Tutor hit back by suing them for breach of contract and tortious interference.

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On Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael Paul Linfield rejected Tutor's lawsuit, saying that Aramid and Molner coudn't be sued over efforts related to their role in the bankruptcy of Bergstein's companies.

The dispute over the Internet Movie Database's practice of revealing actors' ages continues in a Washington federal court. This month, attorneys for IMDb and actress Huong Hoang each filed motions for victory on summary judgment.

Hoang (known in the industry as "Junie Hoang") is suing, alleging that IMDb has "misused" personal credit information she submitted when signing up for a Pro account. She says that IMDb also uses the website PrivateEye.com for the purposes of adding or correcting to its database, and that these allegedly deceptive and unfair acts have caused her to lose jobs in Hollywood.

IMDb and parent Amazon.com are defending themselves by saying, among other things, that Hoang was owed no contractual duties, that Hoang hasn't established they were involved in any unfair practices and that the court has already implicitly recognized there's no privacy interest in hiding one's age.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has denied an attempt by a group of bloggers to derive some benefit from AOL's $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post.

In 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of writers, led by freelance journalist Jonathan Tasini, who once prevailed against the The New York Times with respect to freelancers' digital rights. In the lawsuit, the writers alleged they were mistreated by HuffPo, that they agreed to write for the site in its infancy when it was an upstart that supported liberal causes. After the website was sold, though, they believed themselves entitled to some fair compensation.

On Wednesday, an appellate court affirmed a lower court's dismissal.

Age of the Hobbits, which a federal judge enjoined Monday from release in the U.S. under that title, will get a Cambodian theatrical release, according to local press reports – but under a new name: “The History of Mankind.”

An actress identified only as Anne G filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday against Time Warner, HBO, Cinemax and a production company called True Crime LLC claiming that she was bullied into performing nude scenes, sexually harassed and placed in a dangerous work environment.

Storage Wars star David Hester has filed a big new lawsuit against A&E Television Networks, contending that he was wrongfully terminated and that the high-rated series is rigged.

In a complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against A&E and producer Original Productions, Hester alleges, "A&E has committed a fraud on the public and its television audience in violation of the Communications Act of 1934, which makes it illegal for broadcasters to rig a contest of intellectual skill with the intent to deceive the viewing public."

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has granted CBS' motion to inspect NCIS creator Donald Bellisario's medical records and has pushed back the upcoming trial by two weeks.

The two sides are engaged in a dispute over profits from NCIS: Los Angeles, which Bellisario contends is a spinoff of his JAG and entitles him to participate in the show and/or be rewarded financially.