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Ask not what a bot does to thee: Sony and Facebook back down after taking down part of British pianist’s posted J.S. Bach performance video
Johann Sebastian Bach may have died 268 years ago, but does legal discord still prevail over the...
Read MoreSho’ Nuff: fiscal risk persists for music publishers after appellate court revives copyright suit, royalties claims over tune sampled for Justin Timberlake Hit ‘Suit & Tie’
Sho’ Nuff, some music publishers still may have a financial reckoning ahead with a trio who...
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You know where SpongeBob works as a cook, right? That’s also why an appellate court fried up real eateries’ hopes to be called ‘The Krusty Krab’
To the imaginary denizens of Bikini Bottom, including cartoon legend SpongeBob SquarePants, the...
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Even as songwriters win a key fight on royalties, new fronts open in big-money war between companies, creatives over pay for streamed music
Bit coins and other crypto currencies? For already financially struggling creatives seeking ways...
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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 MoreNew Hollywood theater brings out the dead. Now what legal specters might haunt post-mortem, holographic performances?
Sadly, they’re long gone — but, no wait, they’re back! Some pop musical legends have...
Read MoreKudos to U.S. Ninth Circuit for posting video of key argument over what jurors could consider in controversial ‘Blurred Lines’ case
The music industry has been abuzz and ablaze for months now after Robin Thicke and Farrell...
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For little Cindy Lou, raunchy play is a fair-use parody, judge finds, declining to be writer’s Grinch
Although countless children have embraced the notion advanced by Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr....
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Couple who clip a he-man get a last, fair-use laugh in YouTube ‘reaction’ video tiff
On the internet, even the most casual conversation can erupt into a flame war — in which, of...
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Lionsgate hit with a $5.8 million ‘Biggest Loser’
Arbitrator rules studio undercut profit potential of fitness guru Jillian Michaels’ recorded...
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Appellate court rejects cable license for FilmOn
In its long-running bid to transform broadcasting, controversial firm fails to persuade judges to...
Read MoreYouTube’s service terms just can’t be ignored
Federal judge tosses suit over music video that was pulled down, then re-posted, and had its view count reset Performers who leap on to YouTube may be visually savvy, marketing smart, and outstanding early adopters of...
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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 MoreJudge finds foul play in royalties for ‘Foul Play’
Although it may be fashionable to criticize screenplays from days past as quaint and almost cliche in how their plot complications tied up so neatly, a judge in Los Angeles has provided a tidy $6.8 million curtain-closer to a...
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Are 6-second Vines ‘too minimal’ to infringe?
Vine, a social media website acquired by Twitter, is a popular technology among millennials. They...
Read MoreAnti-paparrazi law allowed to motor ahead
This guest post was written by Mary P. Ray, a law student enrolled in Southwestern’s Entertainment Law and Web 2.0 class. Paul Raef in 2012 was in his car pursuing Justin Bieber, the one-time teen heart-throb turned rock...
Read MoreAppellate judges order up a ‘dancing baby’ trial
So, the dancing baby case, aka Lenz v. Universal, waltzes on to another court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled the case presents sufficient fair-use and other issues so that it cannot be dismissed...
Read MoreAppellate court tosses PlayStation owner’s suit
For a PlayStation owner with a decidedly paranoid view as to what happened or what might occur with his personal information, especially data on his movie-viewing habits, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has just...
Read MoreIndividual copyright claims in films? Nope.
It took a year, two U.S. District Court judges, eleven judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, two judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and officials from the U.S. Copyright office....
Read MoreA Ranger fan-vid morphs past takedown
Mighty morphing… Lawsuit Rangers? A recent Power Rangers’ fan-created video, posted on YouTube and Vimeo, quickly was taken down after the copyright owner claimed infringement, sparking an ongoing debate about such...
Read MoreHollywood’s 1st with legal drones in U.S. skies
As the blog has reported earlier, Hollywood has been sky-high about the possibility that the Federal Aviation Administration would grant exemptions for the use of commercial unmanned aircraft systems (aka drones) for movie,...
Read MoreHollywood’s 1st with legal drones in U.S. skies
As the blog has reported earlier, Hollywood has been sky-high about the possibility that the Federal Aviation Administration would grant exemptions for the use of commercial unmanned aircraft systems (aka drones) for movie,...
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Tough new questions on ‘media piracy’
The Social Science Research Council has released its highly anticipated 440-page report,...
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