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Court dismisses ACORN suit vs. 'pimp,' 'hooker,' Breitbart.com; plaintiffs missed service deadline
ACORN's general counsel, Arthur Schwartz, told the Washington Post at the time that the defendants, young filmmakers O'Keefe and Giles, plus Andrew Breitbart's Breitbart.com LLC, which disseminated the videos, had committed "clear violations of Maryland law" against audio recording without consent from all parties. A state court in Baltimore has dismissed ACORN's lawsuit against James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Breitbart.com LLC after the plaintiffs failed to serve the complaint on the defendants within Maryland's 120-day limit. ACORN v.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Elder Porn Targeted By Massachusetts Lawmaker - Proposal Goes Too Far
Tags: Adult Entertainment Law imbecile Massachusetts State Rep, Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D) is targeting adult entertainment involving models over the age of 60 as well as private sexual communications between the elderly (if you can call 60 “elderly” anymore) and private sexual communications among the disabled. See State Puts Porn Pervs in Sights, Boston Herald.
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The Legal Satyricon
- Monday, March 30, 2009
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Think You Know Libel Law? Think Again
A bedrock principle of libel law is that truth is an absolute defense. If what you say about someone is true, the person cannot win a libel case against you, even if you defame them. The federal appeals court in Boston put a jackhammer to the bedrock this week. In Noonan v.
Media Law
- Monday, February 16, 2009
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Alec Baldwin lectures at Harvard Law School
By Eriq Gardner Harvard Law School is starting to look like Hollywood East. Tags: Law Schoo The latest celebrity to appear at the prestigious legal academy is Alec Baldwin, who was brought on campus by HLS assistant professor Jeannie Suk to give an...
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Australia's Defamation Laws
David Rolph, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published "A Critique of the National, Uniform Defamation Laws," at 16 Torts Law Journal 207 (2008). The national, uniform defamation laws, which came into effect across Australia in 2006, represent th
Media Law Prof Blog
- Monday, February 16, 2009
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Entertainment Law Update Podcast – Episode 4: The Pope & The Little Mermaid turn it up to 11
Episode 4 of my Entertainment Law Update podcast is now available. Tags: Entertainment la Visit the site to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite RSS Reader. Attorneys can get California MCLE (Continuing Legal Eduction) credit, too!
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Gordon P. Firemark
- Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Who owns a play that’s partly improvised?
Tags: Theatre la Last week, a colleague asked me the following question:
If If an actor improvises lines in a play, and the “author”/director of the play later wishes to write a screenplay which incorporates the actor’s improvised dialogue, does he have to obtain rights to that dialogue? What is the written (or unwritten) rule regarding the incorporation of improvised [...]
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Gordon P. Firemark
- Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Ruling on Motion to Dismiss in Ciolli v. Iravani
Tags: internet la In the continuing saga of the Auto Admit case, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled on the defendants’ motion to dismiss and motion to strike.
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Defendants Defendants Ross Chanin, ReputationDefender, Mark Lemley, and Heide Iravani asserted that they lacked the minimum contacts required for the exercise of personal jurisdiction
The Legal Satyricon
- Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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Law Professor sues 'Above the Law' blog; time to go back to complaint-drafting school
Above the Law is one of the nation's foremost chroniclers of the wackiness of the American legal system. And now Above the Law is an involuntary participant in a lawsuit that demonstrates the wackiness of the American legal system -- and the American legal academy. Marvin Jones is a professor at the University of Miami Law School, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and employment discrimination. Here's the story: D. In September 2007, Prof.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, November 2, 2009
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How the RealDVD ruling could reshape copyright law
By Eriq Gardner Hollywood studios got a huge win yesterday when Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction against the release of a technology produced by RealNetworks that lets consumers save copies of...
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Is Arnold's new anti-paparazzi law unconstitutional?
Schwarzenegger has enacted laws that expand privacy protections...
...Tags: By Eriq Gardner Since giving up an acting career for life in California's governor's mansion, Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it one of his political missions to make life tough for intrusive paparazzi. Tags: Celebrity Free Speech Government Media Privac
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