624 Articles match "2008"

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• Britain's "Most Complained About" Ads, 2008
  
  Here's a list of the "most complained about" ads in Great Britain in 2008
  Media Law Prof Blog - Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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• RAM Copying - An Issue of More Than Transitory Duration
  
  4, 2008), the Second Circuit considered several important issues on the way to concluding that Cablevision's proposed operation of a remote digital video recorder (RS-DVR) system does not infringe the rights of reproduction and public performance of its program providers. In The Cartoon Network LP, LLP v. CSC Holdings, Inc. 991 F.2d 2007).
  New Media and Technology Law - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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• DA Says Town Broke Open Meeting Law
  
  Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. has ruled that the Charlton, Mass., board of selectmen violated the open meeting law by meeting in private to evaluate the job performance of Town Administrator Robin Craver. The DA was acting on a complaint filed by the Telegram & Gazette , which reported the ruling in an Oct. In an Oct.
  Media Law - Monday, October 13, 2008
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• Getting Out Of Getting In Your Own Way
  
  I recently called four actors about a potential gig on a television series. Only one of them got back to me. Four days later. By email. All of them, without exception, regularly complain to me about the lack of work in L.A. and now, all of them, without exception, were missing an opportunity to work in their field. Call it audition fatigue.
  DealFatigue - Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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• The Film Industry Is In A Pickle
  
  Pickle Magazine , a film industry publication based in India about all things Bollywood and now, Hollywood, recently asked producer and sales agent, Ron Lavery to interview me and ten others for its American Film Market edition. Here’s my take: Lavery: How do you think the current economic situation will effect AFM business this year?
  DealFatigue - Sunday, November 16, 2008
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• UCC, Not Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, Governs Formation of Contract by Exchange of E-Mails
  
  Thyssenkrupp Materials, NA , 2008 U.S. 5, 2008). The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act was adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1999. Both the UETA and its companion federal enactment, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act , Pub.L. LEXIS 58985 (E.D.
  New Media and Technology Law - Monday, September 8, 2008
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• Parker v. Search Engines, Part II: Challenge to Search Engine Caching Dismissed on Most (But Not All) Grounds
  
  2008 U.S. 26, 2008), the district court held that a Web site operator's failure to deploy a robots.txt file containing instructions not to copy and cache Web site content gave rise to an implied license to index that site. The practice of search engine crawling and caching of Web site content has infrequently been litigated. Yahoo!,
  New Media and Technology Law - Thursday, October 16, 2008
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• Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition
  
  13, 2008) easily goes to the top of the charts of this small category. There are so few judicial opinions dealing with open source licenses that any single one is of great interest, but the pro-open source ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Jacobsen v. Katzer , No. 2008-1001 (Fed. utf-8. false. false. false. ABC, 538 F.2d
  New Media and Technology Law - Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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• Do We Need a Mode of Voluntary Surrender of Publicity Rights?
  
  Creative Commons, a non-profit founded by Larry Lessig and others, aims to “rebuild a public domain.” The project is largely a reaction to the expanding scope and duration of copyright protection under law, as well as burgeoning copy-protection technologies incorporated.
  Pixelization - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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• Judge Reprimanded for Letters to Publisher
  
  Murphy, SJC-10179 December 18, 2008. The judge who sent threatening letters to the publisher of The Boston Herald received a public reprimand today from the Supreme Judicial Court. The SJC concluded that Superior Court Judge Ernest B. Murphy violated standards of judicial ethics when he wrote two letters to Herald Publisher Patrick J.
  Media Law - Thursday, December 18, 2008
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