Wesley Lewis

On Sunday, December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law a COVID-19 relief and government spending bill entitled the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.”

It’s official: the Washington Redskins are no more. Well, the name, that is. Despite team owner Daniel Snyder’s famous 2013 proclamation – “We’ll never change the name. It’s that simple. NEVER. You ca...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Associate Wesley Lewis was quoted in IP Magazine and World IP Review articles about the U.S. Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS’s) refusal to review a long-running copyrig...

Associate Wesley Lewis talked with World IP Review about a lawsuit between Tracy Chapman and Nicki Minaj over whether sampling a song in the studio constitutes copyright infringement.

Associate Wesley Lewis authored an article in the Media Law Resource Center’s MediaLawLetter about a court ruling in Brown v. Netflix, a case involving the unlikely intersection...

Welcome to the 2019-2020 edition of the Haynes and Boone, LLP Media and Entertainment Law Year in Review.

The internet as we know it today was made possible, in part, through the creation of a legal framework that permits platforms and internet service providers (ISPs) to host user-generated content witho...

Partners Jason Bloom and Lee Johnston and Associates Joseph Lawlor and Wesley Lewis authored an article in Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal about the U.S. Copyright Office’s rec...

Back in 1955, John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” to represent the science of developing intelligent machines. The following year, McCarthy established AI as a field when he organi...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Associate Wesley Lewis spoke with Rolling Stone about a recent declaratory judgment lawsuit filed by country music group Lady A (formerly Lady Antebellum) against the Se...