Judge Rules King of Pop Hologram Okay

     Las Vegas - Two years ago a hologram  of Tupac Shakur at the Coachella Music Festival had people wondering what might be next in music concert special effect possibilities. The technology that created the Tupac Shakur hologram is now in the possession of one noteworthy billionaire, Alki David.  Alki David attempted to transform the television business with streaming technology.  David was sued by some of TV's broadcasters and now finds himself on the opposite side of the intellectual property rights coin, David is the one suing. 
    Aliki David has developed a digital delivery system for movie trailers and movie full-length reels directly to customers.  Streaming content has now become a dirty word in Hollywood, according to a local news tabloid, TV networks have been resisting streamed live television, because television is advertisement-based.  Advertisements relate to something we know, ratings.  However ratings are  calculated on the original television model.  With internet devices taking viewers, advertisers face a much more challenging formula, how to price streaming content on laptops and smartphones. As a result Alki David has been sued in federal court by CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX for the copyright infringement that came with co-opting their network feeds into a digital service offered to tens of thousands of customers.   
     But, this time Alki David is the one suing.  Alki David's FilmOne and hologram maker Musion are the plaintiffs (the ones suing) in a lawsuit filed against Cirque de Soleil and MGM Resorts, for allegedly infringing on patents used to create the hologram used in used in the final scene of "Michael Jackson: One", the acrobtic show at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas.  Alki David says, he recently bought the exclusive rights to a type of technology that produces holograms; and to a company that can make holograms for customers (FilmOne).    
    Now, a federal judge in Las Vegas has denied Alki David's request to halt a performance of a Michael Jackson hologram, at the 2014 Billbard Music Awards.  Judge Kent Dawson issued a ruling Friday, May 16, 2014, saying their wasn't enough evidence to show the hologram would violate Aliki David's, company's patents.  See also, www.mtv.com.