While the lawsuit apparently filed today by the parent company of Nikki Finke's Deadline against the parent company of the Hollywood Reporter is largely about "misappropriating wholesale content" from Deadline, the fun begins when you see they accused the Reporter of straight up stealing code from their site TVLine. (The copyright infringement on the code seems pretty cut and dry. [PDF]) BUT THEN there's also a section on how the Reporter tried to "lure away" Deadline's employee, Ms. Finke, with a decent salary and a "ONE MILLION DOLLAR MALIBU HOME." Then there are like a thousand examples of stories that Deadline posted first and then the [...]

I would say former Us Weekly editor Janice Min is settling in quite well as the new editor of the Hollywood Reporter. (They went with: Steve McPherson! Leaving ABC! Due to "Sex Probe"!) It seems worth it to say once again that bigshot Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer's letter to her is as terrible as his others; it's my opinion that it's unfathomable that anyone out there hires him.