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Au revoir, appellate court says to Calif. attempt to give artists a percentage of rising value of their works under ‘droit de suite’ concept
With blood, sweat, and tears, a quartet of California artists pursued their vision, winning over...
Read More‘Moral rights’ may hold some sway in Egyptian music, but Jay-Z rules like a pharoah in an appellate win in a long-running infringement case involving rap hit ‘Big Pimpin’
The Egyptians’ and their empire, culture, and world views so enthralled the ancient world...
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No ‘fake news’ here: 15th annual ‘Entertainment and Media Law Conference’ will tackle Trump Administration’s legal ‘disarray’ for media, entertainment industries
The Media Law Resource Center and Southwestern Law School have hosted for 15 years the...
Read MoreMorricone may be a movie music titan but a guastafeste U.S. judge finds him a pen for hire, rejects his bid to recover rights to 3 scores
This guest post was contributed by Anne M. Lum, a student in Southwestern Law School’s SCALE...
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EU court details tech, profit infringement perils
Copyright violations can occur too readily and for makers’ improper advantage when razzle-dazzle...
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Es tiempo, dice el juez en el caso ‘Timeless’
Court advances claim that U.S. television show may have infringed on Spanish hit Timing’s...
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Sir Paul’s rights claims: music industry temblor
In artists’ battles to terminate, recover copyrights, $750-million Beatles catalog’s a...
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Podcasts? Here are 3 on entertainment law
If you’re looking for a way to stay up to date in easy, convenient fashion with key...
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Ollivierra, Lind named Institute co-directors
Southwestern Law School has announced that faculty members Neil Ollivierra and Robert Lind will serve as the new co-directors of the nationally recognized Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute. Lind is a Southwestern...
Read MoreWill cable boxes go bye-bye, content increase?
Is it time to say goodbye to cable companies’ set-top transmission boxes, the monthly charges that come with them, and a possible entertainment content choke point? The FCC has approved a Notice of Proposed Rule Making to...
Read MoreDancing baby spins again, now for more fair use
Oh, that baby never seems to stop dancing, does he? The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, has released an amended opinion and dissent in the “Dancing Baby” case aka Lenz v. Universal Music Corp, which this blog has...
Read MoreBy golly, how did Gollum get into Turkish court?
Entertainment Law practitioners in the United States don’t all that often see their clients involved in libel cases involving the nation’s top political leaders, thanks to decisions like New York Times v Sullivan....
Read MoreIn Paris, a paltry deterrent for film infringement
This guest post is by Ravyn O’Neal, a member of the Fall ’15, Southwestern Entertainment Law and Web 2.0 class. If copyright laws seek to prevent unauthorized lifting of an artist’s intellectual property, what...
Read MoreCanadians in TV case can’t elude jurisdiction
Although some entertainment industry types may belittle Los Angeles and insist that they can do business on their own terms elsewhere, all too many paths lead to and through what boosters blushingly have dubbed the Entertainment...
Read MoreA front-row view of Hollywood’s copyright fight
He never took a copyright nor a trademark course in law school, he said, and he intended to practice in the international or educational areas. A clerkship with a judge persuaded him he didn’t want to be a litigator. At...
Read More$27 million award affirmed in bogus film deal
Five years after striking two deals valued at the time at $300 million to finance 10 films to be made with his company Rainstorm, Steven G. Kaplan has won a California appellate decision affirming a private arbitrator’s...
Read MoreUncle Sam adds new tactic to ‘notorious’ list
The U.S. Trade Representative recently released its annual Notorious Market List, which calls out markets where the infringing of intellectual property is most problematic and where markets themselves enable “substantial...
Read MoreMovie theaters here to stay, lawyers told
In a world in which consumers can access movies in multiple ways — including with on-demand streaming services like Netflix or through cable or satellite providers and on an array of devices and locations –movie...
Read MoreIn EU, anti-terrorism act runs afoul of privacy
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005, which required all telecommunications providers to retain telephone and Internet metadata, violated the privacy rights of...
Read MoreEU high court OKs steps to block infringement
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Internet Service Providers in Europe legally may block piracy sites. The decision came in a case involving Constatintin Film and Wega, two movie production companies that...
Read MoreYouTube finds puerto seguro in rights case
In the copyright battles among television networks and Internet Service Providers, the Court of Appeals in Spain has found that YouTube is sheltered from liability by the hosting, safe harbor in Article 16 of the Spanish...
Read MoreEU high court clarifies fair use of hyperlinks
The Court of Justice, the European Union’s highest judicial body, has ruled that the authorization of the rights holder is not required to link freely available copyrighted information from one site to another. The case,...
Read MoreEU investigates Hollywood’s TV exclusives
Winter is coming! exclaimed Amedia, a Russian film company that signed a five-year output deal with HBO, giving it exclusive rights to some of the most popular series of the U.S. cable network: Game of Thrones (which features a...
Read MoreFilm, music industries detail global threats
When a recent presidential aspirant jested about his grasp of international affairs and whether he knew, gotcha, the name of the leader of Uz-Beki-Beki-Stan-Stan, music and entertainment industry officials had to flinch more...
Read More‘Lively’ replay in dispute over Marley remix
Well, a federal court in Los Angeles may need to get up and stand up for a new music-related trial because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has fought for the right of Rock River Communications Inc. to get...
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