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Copyrighting Ditigal Images of Real People

Posted on January 10, 2011
Bryce Clayton Newell has published Independent Creation and Originality in the Age of Imitated Reality: A Comparative Analysis of Copyright and Database Protection for Digital Models of Real People at 6 Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review 93...

Chinese Copyright Law and Piracy

Posted on January 10, 2011
Thomas P. Winkler, Sophistic Arts, has published The Ex-Ante Anthropological Approach to Chinese Music Piracy: Hip-Hop Culture Writes Its Own Story, in volume 3 of the Journal of Eurasian Law (2010). Here is the abstract. While the Internet has presented...

History Channel Drops Plans To Air "Kennedys" Series

Posted on January 08, 2011
The History Channel has decided not to air the controversial docudrama The Kennedys, a production by Joel Surnow. Criticism of the project began early last year, and continued throughout filming. The drama may still air outside the U.S., since the...

News of the World Suspends Assistant Editor; Sienna Miller Decides To Sue Over Phone Hack

Posted on January 07, 2011
Some Members of Parliament are asking for yet another inquiry into the News of the World phone hacking affair, this after the paper suspended its assistant news editor on Wednesday. The Guardian has obtained permission from a court to see...

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Cryptography and Protection of Digital Evidence

Posted on January 07, 2011
Jhonny Antonio Pabon Cadavid has published The Cryptography and the Protection of Digital Information (La Criptograf�a y la Protecci�n a la Informaci�n Digital) at Revista la Propiedad Inmaterial (no. 14) 59 (2010). Here is the abstract. In this article, the...

The Comparative Law of Ownership of Works Created In Employment Relationships

Posted on January 07, 2011
Jose Roberto Herrera Diaz has published Ownership of Copyright in Works Created in Employment Relationships: Comparative Study of the Laws of Colombia, Germany and the United States of America at Revista la Propiedad Inmaterial (no. 14) 91 (2010). Here is...

Call For Papers

Posted on January 06, 2011
Call For Papers The High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School are pleased to announce a new annual works-in-progress series for Internet Law...

VOD Regulation In the UK

Posted on January 05, 2011
Daithi MacSithigh, University of East Anglia Norwich Law School, has published Co-Regulation, Video-on-Demand and the Legal Status of Audio-Visual Media at 2 International Journal of Digital Television 51 (2011). Media regulation in the United Kingdom has traditionally seen a division...

Copyright Law and Fan-Made Derivative Works

Posted on January 05, 2011
Patrick McKay, Regent University School of Law, has published Culture of the Future: Adapting Copyright Law to Accommodate Fan-Made Derivative Works in the Twenty-First Century. Here is the abstract. Fan-made derivative works based on works of popular culture have a...

Media Regulation Today

Posted on January 05, 2011
Patrick M. Garry, University of South Dakota School of Law, has published Re-Evaluating Media Regulation in a Media Environment of Nearly Unlimited Entertainment Programming and Ample Alternative Channels of Communication in volume 22 of Regent University Law Review (2009/2010)...

Tim Goodman's Blog Reappears at THR

Posted on January 05, 2011
Tim Goodman's blog The Bastard Machine has found a new home at the Hollywood Reporter.

Rewriting Twain

Posted on January 05, 2011
Critics and admirers alike are reacting to a publisher's new edition of Mark Twain's New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New South Publishers of Alabama has put out an edition of the book with the N word excised and the word...

Intellectual Property Law in Egypt

Posted on January 04, 2011
Lea Shaver, Hofstra University School of Law, and Nagla Rizk, American University in Cairo Economics Department, have published Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development, in Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on...

New York Court Upholds "Amazon" Holding

Posted on January 04, 2011
Media tax mavens, take note: Edward A. Zelinsky, Cardozo School of Law, has published New York Appellate Division Upholds 'Amazon' Law: Analysis in State Tax Notes (2011). Here is the abstract. In Amazon.com LLC et al. v. New York State...

A History and Analysis of Patent Law

Posted on January 04, 2011
Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is publishing Beyond Invention: Patent as Knowledge Law in the Lewis & Clark Law Review. Here is the abstract. The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Bilski...

Free and Open Source Software

Posted on January 04, 2011
Greg R. Vetter, University of Houston Law Center, has published Commercial Free and Open Source Software: Knowledge Production, Hybrid Appropriability, and Patents. It is forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review, volume 77 (2009). Here is the abstract. Free and open...

The Comic Book, Copyright Law, and Comic Book History

Posted on January 04, 2011
Keith Aoki, University of California, Davis, School of Law, has published Pictures within Pictures, in volume 36 of the Ohio Northern University Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. This is a meditation on the creative process, copyright law, and...

Hate Speech and Latin American Norms and Legal Regimes

Posted on January 03, 2011
Tanya Kateri Hernandez, Fordham University School of Law, is publishing Hate Speech and The Language of Racism in Latin America: A Lens for Reconsidering Global Hate Speech Restrictions and Legislation Models, in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law...

The News Media and Coverage of the Duke Lacrosse Team Scandal

Posted on January 03, 2011
Howard M. Wasserman, Florida International University College of Law, has published "Institutional Failures: Duke Lacrosse, Universities, the News Media, and the Legal System," in Institutional Failures: Duke Lacrosse, Universities, the News Media, and the Legal System (Howard Wasserman, ed...

Pakistan's Current Blasphemy Law Has a Lot of Popular Support

Posted on January 01, 2011
From the New York Times: Pakistani religious groups have taken to the streets and gone on strike in support of the current blasphemy law. The law presently allows arrest and prosecution of religious minorities.

California's Malicious Impersonation Law

Posted on December 31, 2010
California's "malicious impersonation" law takes effect tomorrow. Penal Code section 528.5 reads as follows: � 528.5. Impersonation through Internet Web site or by other electronic means proscribed; Punishment (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who knowingly and...

Judge Drops Lawsuit Against Cleveland Plain Dealer

Posted on December 31, 2010
Cleveland judge Shirley Saffold and her daughter have dropped a lawsuit against the Cleveland Plain Dealer over anonymous comments posted to an account used by the Saffolds. The Saffolds also reached a financial settlement with another defendant. Judge Saffold was...

Media Law

Posted on December 31, 2010
Check out www.signspotting.com, a destination website for photographs of signs that tell us what to do, what not to do, what's interesting to do, where things are, what things are where, and generally, other pertinent information, but sometimes not quite...

Television Writer/Producer Dies In Hawaii

Posted on December 30, 2010
The AP and the Hollywood Reporter report that Aron Abrams, who has been associated with such shows as King of the Hill, Everybody Hates Chris, Grounded for Life, and 3d Rock from the Sun, has been found dead in his...

Time Warner, Sinclair In Fee Dispute As Year Ends

Posted on December 30, 2010
From the Wall Street Journal via The Hollywood Reporter, the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Time Warner Cable may end the year without resolving their dispute over fees, which would leave viewers in various markets across the U.S. without favorite shows...

FCC To Hold Workshop on VHF/UHF Narrowbanding

Posted on December 28, 2010
The FCC will hold a workshop on VHF/UHF narrowbanding on January 26 in DC for licensees interesting in moving to narrowband radio transmissions. More here.

Ohio Supreme Court Upholds State Sales Tax Imposed On Satellites, Not Cables

Posted on December 28, 2010
By a vote of 5-2, the Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a state law that taxes satellite providers but exempts cable providers, assessing a 5.5 percent sales tax on direct tv companies. In the opinion handed down yesterday in DirecTv...

Teena Marie Brockert Dies--Gave Her Name To Important Entertainment Law Case

Posted on December 27, 2010
Singer Teena Marie (born Mary Christine Brockert) has died, apparently of natural causes, in Los Angeles at the age of 54. To rhythm and blues devotees, Ms. Marie was known for her numerous hits, but to entertainment lawyers and law...

Good With Or Without God? Well, You Can't Advertise It On a Fort Worth Municipal Bus

Posted on December 21, 2010
After outrage from some Christian groups, the Fort Worth Transportation Authority has revised its policy on accepting advertisements on its buses. What caused the uproar? A series of atheist ads bought for the holiday season; the ads are part of...

Author Of Book For Pedophiles Taken Into Custody

Posted on December 21, 2010
Polk County, Florida, law enforcement officials have arrested the author of a self-help book for pedophiles. Phillip Greaves, the author of a book briefly sold via Amazon.com, was taken into custody after he sold a copy of the book to...

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