|
|
|
|
The Entertainment and Media Law content community collects and organizes the best information from around the web that will help you learn and stay current. If you would like to be included and or participate, please contact: Tony Karrer |
329 Articles match "2007"
|
The Latest from Entertainment and Media Law
|
MORE
|
|
Proposed Broadcast Performance Royalty Back in the News - Where is It Going?
What was perhaps most interesting about that article was the fact that it appeared only one page away from an article about Internet Radio service Pandora , and a discussion of how that hugely popular service was almost driven out of business by music royalties set by the Copyright Royalty Board in their 2007 royalty decision. In one more indication that the Broadcast Performance Royalty (or " performance tax " as opponents of the legislation call it) is not dead yet is an article in yesterday's New York Times reviewing the issues at stake in the proceeding. The
Broadcast Law Blog
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Kookaburra Laughs at Men at Work
Although “Kookaburra” was written in 1934 and “Down Under” became hugely popular by 1983, legal action was not taken until 2007 after an Australian television game show raised the alleged similarities. This begs the question, if they really are that similar, why didn’t anyone notice until 2007? In a clash of two of Australia’s most iconic songs, Larrikin Music, which owns the copyright to the popular Australian folk tune “Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree,” is seeking millions of dollars in royalties from popular Australian group Men at Work and their record company EMI for allegedly copying a flute melody from “ Kookaburra ” in their 1982 hit song “ Down Under .”
JetLawBlog
- Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Devil Listens to Nirvana . . .
The decision came one day after the 25-year-old doctoral student in physics admitted in open court that he had illegally downloaded and then shared hundreds of songs through peer-to-peer networks between 1999 and 2007. This past summer, in only the second lawsuit of its kind to go to trial, Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum was ordered to pay four record labels a total of $675,000 in damages for illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them online. Judge Nancy Gertner, of the U.S.
JetLawBlog
- Tuesday, March 2, 2010
|
-
|
The Best from Entertainment and Media Law
|
MORE
|
-
MUSIC DOWNLOADERS NOT REQUIRED TO PAY PERFORMANCE ROYALTIES.
41-1395, 2007 WL 1346568 (S.D.N.Y. 25, 200 AOL and other online services are not required to pay performance royalties on music downloaded over the Internet, according to a New York federal court. The court held that downloading a song is not a public performance of the song under copyright law. Both parties had asked for partial summary judgment on the question of whether Internet downloads
-
Independent Bumps
Recent observation: on two separate deals, different reps at different agencies asked for a $25K set up bonus if their writer-client’s projects were independently produced. A set up bonus or “studio bump” is often negotiated in a writer’s option/purchase agreement if the producer successfully sets the project up at a major studio. The bonus is often negotiated as an advance against the
DealFatigue
- Sunday, September 9, 2007
-
SOUTH CENTRAL FARM DOCUMENTARY SEEKS COMPLETION FUNDS
Congratulations to our client, Sheila A. Laffey, President of Echo Mountain Productions on the completion of principal photography on her new documentary South Central Farm which tells the heartbreaking true story of the plight of a community of poor urban farmers and their supporters in South Central Los Angeles. Given a barren plot of vacant land, after the L.A.
-
-
The Mickey Mouse Copyright Protection Act of 2007?
To the Editor:
The May 20, 2007 Op-Ed Section carries an essay by Mark Helprin urging that Congress extend the term of copyrights to perperuity or close to it.
Copyrights now have a term equal to the life of the author plus 70 years. Mark Helprin’s recent Op-Ed piece in The New York Times advocated a further (if not perpetual) extension of the current term of US copyright protection which was already extended several years ago courtesy of the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act of 1998 . A number of people weighed in with compelling arguments on the Times’ letters
DealFatigue
- Sunday, July 8, 2007
-
RISKY BUSINESS COMES TO TUPELO
Mark will be bringing his one day Risky Business seminar to Tupelo, Mississippi on Friday, November 30, 2007. 06-30134, 2007 WL 2828869 (D. 28, 2007). The film has been added as a "Special Screening" to the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival on Fri, October 26, 2007. Those who attend this comprehensive all day seminar will learn how independent films are financed and distributed. Topics include organizing your company, raising financing via pre-sales, debt and limited partnerships, negotiating tactics, principal terms of the acquisition/distribution agreement, cross-collateralization
-
FANTASY SPORTS LEAGUES NOT GAMBLING
June 20, 2007). UPDATES TO WEBSITE Our website, Entertainment Law Resources ( www.marklitwak.com ) has been updated with additional checklists for Errors and Omissions insurance, Corporate and LLC formation, template lab access letter, sample producer delivery list and other information. MAN COULD GET UP TO 3 YEARS IN PRISON FOR POSTING PIRATED TV EPISODES A criminal complaint handed down in the U.S. June 1, 2007). METHOD FEST 10TH ANNIVERSARY The 10th annual Method Fest independent film festival is currently accepting entries for the 2008 festival, March 27 – April
-
-
CLASH OF THE TITANS: VIACOM AGAINST GOOGLE
On March 13, 2007, Viacom filed a copyright infringement suit against YouTube and parent company Google. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, April 12, 2007 Read cas Viacom, whose brands include MTV, VH1, BET, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures, and Comedy Central is asking for $1 Billion in damages and an injunction barring YouTube from future copyright infringement. Viacom claims that 160,000 unauthorized video clips have been shown on YouTube over 1.5
-
INTERNET LAW TREATISE
05-3939, 2007 WL 1413381 (S.D.N.Y. May 7, 200 Check out the free internet law treatise at http://ilt.eff.org/ . It is sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is an open collaborative treaty summarizing the law relating to the internet. Based on the publication Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook, published by Perkins Coie in 2003, it contains extensive information including sections on Defamation, Content and Speech Regulation, Copyright, Trademark,
-
Check out my home boy Yokum -- and his startup company lawyer blog!
Yokum and I work together on some media companies, as per Yokum's key credentials noted on his blog: " I watch more television than most people I know and I am working on my Madden 2007 skills on the Playstation 3." Something truly wonderful happened while I was taking my blogging break -- about the same time my partner Yokum Taku filled the void with his new Start-Up Company Lawyer blog.
It's a terrific resource about start-up company issues and has some tutorials on corporate and venture finance issues -- recent topics include first offer rights , lock-ups and registration
Silicon Valley Media Law Blog
- Sunday, September 16, 2007
-
-
Check out my home boy Yokum -- and his startup company lawyer blog!
Yokum and I work together on some media companies, as per Yokum's key credentials noted on his blog: " I watch more television than most people I know and I am working on my Madden 2007 skills on the Playstation 3." Something truly wonderful happened while I was taking my blogging break -- about the same time my partner Yokum Taku filled the void with his new Start-Up Company Lawyer blog. It's a terrific resource about start-up company issues and has some tutorials on corporate and venture finance issues -- recent topics include first offer rights , lock-ups and registration rights -- also here, here ,and here .
Silicon Valley Media Law Blog
- Sunday, September 16, 2007
|
|
|