There’s no business like show business. Where else would you deal with a situation like this? An aggrieved tattoo artist sought an injunction to stop the release of the big-budget summer comedy The Hangover Part II in May, claiming that he holds a copyright to the iconic tattoo emblazoned on the face of actor Ed Helms. The 140-lawyer legal team at Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc., led by John Rogovin, prevailed in that dispute, but it shows how precarious a film studio’s investments can be.
Warner Brothers turned to Rogovin in 2008, when he left Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr to become the company’s executive vice president and general counsel. On his first day on the job, he took a seat at the negotiating table with rival Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation to settle a protracted litigation over the rights to the superhero film Watchmen right on the eve of its release.
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