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Jury Picked and Trial Commences in SCO v. Novell UNIX Code Copyright Ownership Dispute
But we'll spare you the details and just say that the ownership of the copyrights is a critical issue because it is that very source code that underlies SCO's claims that the open source Linux Operating System infringes on its intellectual property rights, thereby obligating just about everybody who uses the Linux OS to pay royalties to SCO. The back story to the dispute between The SCO Group and Novell, Inc., over the ownership of copyrights to UNIX source code is lengthy indeed.
New Media and Technology Law
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Summit in rights battle over 'Letters to Juliet'
Summit Entertainment is tussling over rights to a movie that might best be described as "Julie & Julia" meets William Shakespeare. Tags: Copyright Litigation Right of Publicity Trademar By Eriq Gardner What would the Bard say about this lawsuit? The forthcoming film, "Letters to Juliet," focuses on...
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'Real Housewives' suitor claims right of publicity violated
By Eriq Gardner An Illinois man is claiming that Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" violated his publicity rights and caused him emotional distress by depicting him as a humiliated suitor without his consent. Tags: Litigation Right of Publicity Televisio According to the lawsuit filed in...
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Do Hollywood studios own rights on Mars?
Fifty years ago, no attorney demanded digital rights to books, movies, TV shows, and the rest. By Eriq Gardner Throughout space and time, industry lawyers have been caught flat-footed by new technology. These days, they compensate for this lack of...
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Termination rights: music to artists' ears
By Eriq Gardner The rights of artists to terminate copyright grants has received a lot of recent attention in the wake of news that the estate of comic book legend Jack Kirby sent 45 notices of termination to Hollywood studios...
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“Cyber Civil Rights” Prioritizes Civility Over Rights
Danielle Citron’s paper Cyber Civil Rights, which she discussed at Denver Univeristy’s “Cyber Civil Rights” Symposium (summarized by Eric Goldman here), her contempt for existing First Amendment freedoms could not be clearer. By J. DeVoy
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The Legal Satyricon
- Sunday, December 13, 2009
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Purchasing Life Story Rights
Before you decide to purchase the rights to a person’s life story, it is worth considering what you are buying. When you buy the rights to portray someone in film or television, you are buying a bundle of rights. These rights include protection from suits based on defamation, invasion of privacy and the right to publicity. You may also be buying the cooperation of the subject and his family or heirs. Perhaps you want access to diaries and letters that are not otherwise available to you.
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Do We Need a Mode of Voluntary Surrender of Publicity Rights?
Tags: Sharing Licenses Photographs Right of Publicity Creative Commons Konomark Copyright Nano Medi 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...
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Pixelization
- Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Can Nikki Finke sue HBO over Hollywood blogger show?
Tags: Right of Publicity Televisio By Matthew Belloni and Eriq Gardner THR reported last night that HBO is developing a show about "a powerful female online showbiz journalist with a no-holds-barred style." Sound familiar? We wondered what the notoriously no-holds-barred and notoriously litigious female online...
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Sports leagues losing the battle to control fantasy leagues
Tags: Baseball Celebrity Copyright Free Speech Litigation Right of Publicity Sport By Eriq Gardner We don't know how many celebrities play fantasy sports, but they should pay attention to how courts keep chipping away some of their legal protections. On Tuesday, a Minnesota District Court granted CBS's summary judgment seeking a...
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Using Music in Advertising or In a Video Production? Secure the Necessary Rights - ASCAP, BMI and SESAC Licenses Are Not Enough
While many broadcasters think that paying these royalties is enough to give them the rights to do anything they want with music on their stations, it does not. The payments to these Performing Rights Organizations (PROs ) only cover the right to publicly perform music, i.e. They do not give you the right to take the music and " synchronize " it with other words or video material, e.g. Using music in commercials is not as simple as just paying your ASCAP, BMI and SESAC royalties . to broadcast it.
Broadcast Law Blog
- Thursday, March 4, 2010
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