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Proposed Broadcast Performance Royalty Back in the News - Where is It Going?
We have also seen articles in trade publications that suggest that the broadcast performance royalty issue is dead for this Congressional session, given the other issues that Congress has to deal with, and the over 255 signatures in the House of Representatives on a resolution opposing the royalty. But, as we have written before , there is still the fear that the bill could be added as a rider to some other piece of unrelated legislation that must pass Congress and against which some of the resolution's signers could not vote. 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.
Broadcast Law Blog
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Register your copyrights. Now.
I just had a conversation with the Library of Congress. However, the representative at the Library of Congress just told me that it is taking up to TWO years to process a copyright registration. This is an extraordinarily long time for a process where the sample is stored at the Library of Congress and a number is assigned.
Now, we all knew that copyright registrations were taking over a year to process.
Have you filed your copyright registrations?
Trademark, Copyright, and Entertainment Law Forum
- Monday, March 8, 2010
ANTI SLAPP MONTH: More on the Citizen Participation Act
In the midst of an ongoing war in Afghanistan and malaise over gossamer healthcare reform, PPP notes how a preoccupied Congress and public may overlook this important issue.
With By J. DeVoy
The The Public Participation Project (PPP) weighs in on the importance of the Citizen Participation Act, which Marc previously discussed. In
The Legal Satyricon
- Sunday, March 7, 2010
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Hollywood Docket: Sumner sued; Congress fights piracy; Kid Rock
Entertainment law news while digesting the Golden Globes nominations this morning: A class action lawsuit targets Sumner Redstone for damaging the CBS empire by deflating the value of the company by waiting too long to take a write-down. The lawsuit,...
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Court: No fair use for Tenenbaum; huge blow to defense; proposed defense 'would swallow the copyright protections that Congress has created'
He proposes a fair use defense so broad that it would swallow the copyright protections that Congress has created. In the end, fair use is not a referendum on fairness in the abstract, as the Defendant would have it, but an effort to measure the purpose and effects of his particular use against the incentives for artistic and literary creation that Congress established in the Copyright Act. In a devastating blow to Joel Tenenbaum's trial prospects handed down only hours before the start of trial, Judge Nancy Gertner at 1:37 a.m. this morning issued an order granting the record label
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, July 27, 2009
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ABA Journal's "Copyright in the Age of YouTube": C&C's first fisking!
And the content owners are lobbying Congress for tougher laws against infringement.... Tags: First Amendment fair use media criticism web video congress DMCA copyright technolog The February 2009 edition of the ABA Journal has a long article by attorney Steven Seidenberg titled "Copyright in the Age of YouTube." (He He could have cut to the chase and called it "C&C bait"!)
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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Are you kidding me? SEC Officials Attempt to B.S. Congress
Tags: Finance Capital Congress Madoff Politics Patrick Fitzgerald SE In one of the most stunning displays of arrogance and incompetence rolled into one, today’s hearing before the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee has to be seen to be believed. Naked Capitalism caught the most telling moments with links to the video here.
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King Harvest
- Thursday, February 5, 2009
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Conyers: IP Is All Mine
Boucher, Co-Chair of the Congressional Internet Caucus , is one of the copyleft's biggest allies in Congress, and would give Hollywood fits if he held sway over their issues. Tags: congress politic I'm way late on this, but the Photo Business News and Forum blog links to a PaidContent article reporting that House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has decided to strip jurisdiction over IP issues from the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property and grab them for himself on the full committee. The article cites an aide as claiming that
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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Congress Doing A Safety Dance Around Privacy
Congress would be well-advised to hold back on those acronyms and think this thing through. Tags: criminal law wiretapping online records government constitution Congress overly broad legislation telecommunications identity theft child abuse technology vague surveillance Big Brother privacy chilling effect on speech SAFETY Act internet IS Two congressmen have proposed a bill that would require ISPs, businesses, and individuals to maintain all users’ Internet-usage records for two years. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), presented identical
JetLawBlog
- Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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CNET: 'Copyright reform unlikely, advocates say'
The upshot: don't expect major new copyright legislation from the new Congress. Copyright Office, said he didn't expect Congress to get past performance rights issues and perhaps orphan rights. "Congress rarely steps in and fixes anything" related to intellectual property, Carson said. "The Tags: congress copyright Obama politic CNET has an interesting report on a panel discussion featuring representatives from across the copyright spectrum at the Future of Music Coalition's "Policy Day." From someone who knows the legislative scene on copyright issues: David Carson,
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Thursday, February 12, 2009
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House Foreign Affairs takes junket to glamorous...Van Nuys
Tags: copyright congress politic Join the Foreign Affairs Committee! Visit London, Paris, Rome...and and Van Nuys ? Yes, the full committee is holding a hearing titled "Sinking the Copyright Pirates: Global Protection of Intellectual Property" April 6, in the heart of the Valley. Not
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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Perrelli speaks on IP!
Tags: perrelli congress copyright Obam Tom Perrelli , President Obama's choice to be Associate Attorney General and a long-time music industry litigator, is currently undergoing his grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee. And the Senators are asking him about IP! SCOTUSblog is liveblogging , which has its limitations, but it's all we've got for now (unless
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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Tech Daily Dose 'crusades' for IP relevance
For example, at my former employer Roll Call , which covers the internal politics and organization of Congress, we used to joke that if a giant shooting star crashed into Capitol Hill, our headline would read: "Meteor Strike Destroys Capitol; Massive Subcommittee Shuffle Ahead." Tags: media criticism congress copyright politic I love trade publications, and especially their obsessive focus on their own respective industry, to the exclusion of the Big Picture. Which brings us to today's banner headline from National Journal's (excellent) Tech Daily Dose : Voinovich, IP Crusader,
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, January 12, 2009
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