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‘Moral rights’ may hold some sway in E...
Posted by Anne M. Lum | Jun 14, 2018 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing, Music, Technology | 0 |
No ‘fake news’ here: 15th annual ̵...
Posted by Biederman Blog Editors | Jan 8, 2018 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing, Privacy, Procedural, Regulatory, Social Media, Sports, Talent Representation, Technology, Television, Video, Video Games, Web Services | 0 |
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Morricone may be a movie music titan but...

No ‘fake news’ here: 15th an...

‘Moral rights’ may hold some...

EU court details tech, profit infringeme...

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Podcasts? Here are 3 on entertainment la...

Sir Paul’s rights claims: music in...

Es tiempo, dice el juez en el caso ̵...

Au revoir, appellate court says to Calif...
Au revoir, appellate court says to Calif. attempt to give artists a percentage of rising value of their works under ‘droit de suite’ concept
by Natalie Reynoso | Jul 25, 2018 | Art Law, Copyright, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing | 0 |
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’
by Anne M. Lum | Jun 14, 2018 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing, Music, Technology | 0 |
The Egyptians’ and their empire, culture, and world views so enthralled the ancient world...
Read MoreNo ‘fake news’ here: 15th annual ‘Entertainment and Media Law Conference’ will tackle Trump Administration’s legal ‘disarray’ for media, entertainment industries
by Biederman Blog Editors | Jan 8, 2018 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing, Privacy, Procedural, Regulatory, Social Media, Sports, Talent Representation, Technology, Television, Video, Video Games, Web Services | 0 |
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
by Biederman Blog Editors | Oct 23, 2017 | Copyright, Film, International, Licensing, Music | 0 |
This guest post was contributed by Anne M. Lum, a student in Southwestern Law School’s SCALE...
Read MoreEU court details tech, profit infringement perils
by Lauren A. McGee | May 17, 2017 | Copyright, Intellectual Property, International, Technology, Television, Web Services | 0 |
Copyright violations can occur too readily and for makers’ improper advantage when razzle-dazzle...
Read MoreEs tiempo, dice el juez en el caso ‘Timeless’
by Joseph P. Morganella | Mar 16, 2017 | Copyright, International, Television | 0 |
Court advances claim that U.S. television show may have infringed on Spanish hit Timing’s...
Read MoreSir Paul’s rights claims: music industry temblor
by Jackson Abbeduto | Feb 22, 2017 | Copyright, International, Licensing, Music, Procedural, Talent Representation | 0 |
In artists’ battles to terminate, recover copyrights, $750-million Beatles catalog’s a...
Read MorePodcasts? Here are 3 on entertainment law
by Justin Jennings | Dec 8, 2016 | Art Law, Copyright, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing, Music, Regulatory, Trademark | 0 |
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
by Biederman Blog Editors | Nov 23, 2016 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing, Music, Talent Representation, Television, Video, Video Games, Writing | 0 |
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...
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Will cable boxes go bye-bye, content increase?
by Mary P. Ray | Apr 7, 2016 | Copyright, Film, International, Licensing, Procedural, Regulatory, Technology, Television | 0 |
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
by Mary P. Ray | Mar 28, 2016 | Copyright, International, Licensing, Music, Social Media, Technology | 0 |
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?
by Biederman Blog Editors | Dec 3, 2015 | Film, International, Procedural, Regulatory | 0 |
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
by Biederman Blog Editors | Nov 19, 2015 | Copyright, Film, International | 0 |
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
by Jessica Villar | Jun 23, 2015 | Copyright, International, Television | 0 |
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
by Jessica Villar | Apr 23, 2015 | Copyright, Film, International, Regulatory | 0 |
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
by Davina Dawson | Apr 20, 2015 | Film, International | 0 |
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
by Kristen Tojo | Mar 31, 2015 | Copyright, Film, International, Music, Regulatory, Television, Trademark, Video Games | 0 |
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
by Nicole Christman | Oct 31, 2014 | Copyright, Film, International, Technology | 0 |
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
by Karen Hao | May 7, 2014 | International, Privacy, Regulatory, Technology | 0 |
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
by Karen Hao | Apr 10, 2014 | Copyright, Film, International | 0 |
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
by Karen Hao | Mar 25, 2014 | Copyright, International, Technology | 0 |
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
by Erica Rose | Mar 3, 2014 | Copyright, Film, International, Music, Regulatory | 0 |
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
by Valerie Roque | Feb 4, 2014 | International, Regulatory, Television | 0 |
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
by Elissa "Eli" Buenrostro | Nov 1, 2013 | Copyright, Film, International, Music, Regulatory | 0 |
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
by Tiffany Smith | Sep 26, 2013 | Copyright, International, Music | 0 |
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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