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Paris and Hallmark Settle Greeting Card Dispute

Posted on November 10, 2010
Hallmark Cards and Paris Hilton have settled their dispute over Ms. Hilton's lawsuit concerning Hallmark's use of her image and one of her favorite sayings, "That's hot," in a greeting card. So, now both she and Hallmark will be in...

The EU Data Retentive Directive and Customer Privacy

Posted on November 10, 2010
Ian Brown, University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, is publishing Communications Data Retention in an Evolving Internet in the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. Here is the abstract. The 2006 Data Retention Directive requires EU-based Internet Service Providers...

NYU Carter Journalism Institute Accepting Applications For "The Reporting Award

Posted on November 10, 2010
From New York University's Carter Journalism Institute FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2010 N-132, 2010-11 CONTACT: James Devitt 212.998.6808 james.devitt@nyu.edu NYU Carter Journalism Institute Accepting Applications for ?The Reporting Award? to Cover Underreported Topics in the Public Interest New York...

Say It Ain't So! Coach Class?

Posted on November 10, 2010
The new SAG and AFTRA agreements with the studios apparently have given up a huge perk--first class cabins on flights under 1000 miles for their members. For flights over that 1,000 mile mark, first class or business class still holds....

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PTC Lists EIghteen Objectionable Words

Posted on November 09, 2010
The Parents Television Council has published its list of eighteen words that it believes should not be heard on television, and lists their frequency. The Hollywood Reporter reprints the list here. Pretty interesting.

Analyzing "To Catch a Predator"

Posted on November 09, 2010
Amy M. Adler, New York University School of Law, is publishing To Catch a Predator in the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. Here is the abstract. In the last two decades, a new term - ?sexual predator? - has...

Warner Brothers Buys Part of Leavesden Studios For One Hundred Million Pounds

Posted on November 09, 2010
Warner Brothers has made an enormous investment in Leavesden Studios, home of the Harry Potter films. More here.

A Review of "The War For Late Night"

Posted on November 09, 2010
A review of Bill Carter's new The War For Late Night (Viking/Penguin), discussing the battle between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, here.

Judge Allows Sony Pictures To Release "The Illusionist" Next Month

Posted on November 08, 2010
Judge Dolly M. Gee has refused to grant an injunction to Illusionist Distribution, which holds the rights to The Illusionist, starring Edward Nortion, allowing Sony Pictures to release The Illusionist next month. The Sony Pictures film is animated, and is...

Comcast/NBCU Merger May Cost Consumers A Lot In Higher Fees

Posted on November 08, 2010
Via the Hollywood Reporter: estimated costs of the Comcast/NBCU merger are some 2.4 billion dollars to the consumer, because of higher monthly bills. These are the results of a study by the American Cable Association, which says the merger will...

Olbermann Returns To MSNBC Tuesday

Posted on November 08, 2010
MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann, whom the network put on suspension following revelations that he had donated money to Democratic candidates in violation of network policy, will return to the air Tuesday night. More here from the Hollywood Reporter.

EU Plans To Move On New Privacy Legislation

Posted on November 05, 2010
From the New York Times: The European Union's Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding announced that the Commissioner plans to introduce new legislation that will "take into account" the impact of the Internet and other new technology. More here.

Personality Rights in the Hong Kong (China) Legal Regime

Posted on November 05, 2010
Peter K. Yu, Drake University Law School, has published No Personality Rights for Pop Stars in Hong Kong? in The New Law of Brands and Reputation in the Asia Pacific Rim (Andrew Kenyon, Ng-Loy Wee Loon & Megan Richardson, eds....

YouTube Takes Down Radical Cleric's Videos

Posted on November 04, 2010
According to this New York Times story, YouTube has removed videos by Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Muslim cleric born in the United States who often targets the U.S. audiences with his words. YouTube spokesperson Victoria Grand indicated that the decision...

Hip-Hop and Copyright

Posted on November 04, 2010
Tonya M. Evans, Widener University School of Law (HB Campus), has published Sampling, Looping, and Mashing ? Oh My! How Hip Hop Music is Scratching More than the Surface of Copyright Law as Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper...

Foreign Speakers After "Citizens United"

Posted on November 03, 2010
Toni M. Massaro, University of Arizona College of Law, has published Foreign Nationals, Electoral Spending, and the First Amendment in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (2011). Here is the abstract. The Court in January of 2010 rocked...

The Teenager and the Videogame

Posted on November 03, 2010
John A. Humbach, Pace University School of Law, is publishing Teens, Porn and Videogames: Time to Rethink Ginsberg? in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL). Here is the abstract. This term the Supreme Court will decide whether states...

Blanket Licensing and Campaign Events

Posted on November 03, 2010
Lauren M. Bilasz, Cardozo Law Review, Copyrights, Campaigns, and the Collective Administration of Performance Rights: A Call to End Blanket Licensing of Political Events, at 32 Cardozo Law Review 305 (2010). For over two hundred years, political candidates have utilized...

Telecommunications Policy In Microstates

Posted on November 03, 2010
Ewan Sutherland, University of Witwatersrand, LINK Centre, and University of Namur, has published Telecommunications in European Island Micro-States and Micro-Territories. Here is the abstract. On the margins of Europe lie a number of micro-states and micro-territories...

Existing Sponsorship Disclosure Law and Attempts at Reform

Posted on November 02, 2010
Zahr Said Stauffer, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Embedded Advertising and the Venture Consumer. It is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review. Here is the abstract. Embedded advertising - marketing that promotes brands from within entertainment...

Non-Neutral Networks and Their Operation

Posted on November 02, 2010
Eitan Altman and Pierre Bernhard, both Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, Sulan Wong, University of Coruna Faculty of Law, and Julia Rojas-Mora, University of Barcelona Department of Business Economics and Organization, have...

What Does the Right To Distribute Mean In the Internet Age?

Posted on November 02, 2010
Peter S. Menell, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, has published In Search of Copyright?s Lost Ark: Interpreting the Right to Distribute in the Internet Age, as UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1679514. Here is the abstract....

Carl Icahn Loses In Canadian Court

Posted on November 02, 2010
A Canadian court has tossed Carl Icahn's lawsuit against Lionsgate Entertainment, calling him a "bitter bidder." Mr. Icahn's share in the studio dropped from 37.5% to 33.5%. More here from the Hollywood Reporter (check out the mag's new look while...

The Court and Violent Video Games

Posted on November 01, 2010
Findlaw's Michael C. Dorf on the upcoming violent video games case before the Supreme Court (Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Ass'n (EMA)). The Court will hear arguments tomorrow. Briefs here.

Who Is John Doe? Who Wants To Know?

Posted on November 01, 2010
Lior Strahilevitz, University of Chicago Law School, has published Pseudonymous Litigation at 77 University of Chicago Law Review 1239 (2010). Here is the abstract. We presently lack a good theory for when we should permit parties to litigate using a...

Kids and Copyright

Posted on November 01, 2010
John G. Palfrey, Jr., Urs Gasser, Miriam Simun, and Rosalie Barnes, all of Harvard Law School, have published Youth, Creativity, and Copyright in the Digital Age, as Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2009-05. Here is the abstract. New digital networked...

Abend Trust Files Yet Another Suit Over "Disturbia"

Posted on November 01, 2010
The Sheldon Abend Trust has filed another lawsuit over the film "Disturbia," which stars Shia Leboeuf, this time against the Alfred Hitchcock estate. A judge dismissed the Trust's 2008 lawsuit against director Stephen Spielberg. The Trust claims that "Disturbia" is...

Google Changes Ad Sales Rules For French Companies

Posted on October 29, 2010
Under pressure from the French competition agency, Google has agreed to change its procedures for selling search ads. More here.

FCC Presents Staff Working Papers

Posted on October 29, 2010
The FCC has launched a new series of Staff Working Papers. They are available on the agency's website.

Lime Wire Shut Down

Posted on October 28, 2010
The United States District Court, Southern District, has issued a permanent injunction against operation of the P2P downloading site Lime Wire, ending a drawn-out legal battle. Citing evidence that the site is used "overwhelmingly for infringement" and that Lime Wire...

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