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WHEN A DISTRIBUTOR DEFAULTS
home video rights. When I negotiated the agreement, I included a clause enabling my client to demand accelerated payments on default, interest on late payments, and reversion of all distribution rights. So the distributor not only had to pay the balance due with interest, but it forfeited its right to distribute the film.
Entertainment Law Resources Blog - Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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Dead Celebrities on CBS’ 60 Minutes
CBS’ 60 Minutes feature “ A Living for the Dead &# focuses on deceased celebrities right of publicity and strategies for maximizing revenue from the use of name and likeness rights. Tags: Branding Right of Publicity To view the segment and learn more, click here.
Current Trends - Monday, June 28, 2010
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“Hurt Locker” Producers Seek to Hurt Wallets of Thousands of Individuals for Unlawful File-Sharing
The strategy of suing average citizens for copyright infringement arising from illegal downloads is nothing new. However, this legal move by movie producers might signal a rebirth of this type of litigation strategy for combating Internet piracy. lawsuit filed last Monday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Image Source.
JetLawBlog - Thursday, June 3, 2010
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  • Harvard’s Human Rights Strategy: Targeted Assassinations
    This from Tyler Moselle the Acting Director of Harvard’s Human Rights Center: Al-Qaeda is a transnational terrorist movement that inspires individuals in a decentralised fashion. If the goal is to destroy it, then Mr Obama must create a strategy geared to head-hunting individuals in multiple [.]. Sometimes there are no words.
    King Harvest - Sunday, October 25, 2009
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  • RIAA to Cease Filing Mass Copyright Infringement Lawsuits, But Will Continue Monitoring Private Online Music File Transfers
    This tactic has curried some favor with civil rights advocates, but some still disagree with the practice of gathering information about the contents of peoples’ computers because of privacy concerns and the dubious probative value of the collected evidence. The D.C. If this notice is not effective, other e-mails may follow.
    JetLawBlog - Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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  • Dead Celebrities on CBS’ 60 Minutes
    CBS’ 60 Minutes feature “ A Living for the Dead &# focuses on deceased celebrities right of publicity and strategies for maximizing revenue from the use of name and likeness rights. Tags: Branding Right of Publicity To view the segment and learn more, click here.
    Current Trends - Monday, June 28, 2010
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  • 20 Questions for New Artists: Performing Rights Society Affiliation
    There is a bit of strategy involved with affiliating with a performing rights society in the United States. The decision to affiliate with a particular society should be made after the artist/writer has taken some meetings with the performing rights society and decided if there’s more love coming from one than another.
    Music Technology Policy - Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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  • Woody Allen's battle with American Apparel turns ugly
    Allen sued American Apparel for $10 million in New York District Court after it used in an billboard an unauthorized still from the film "Annie Hall" showing a bearded Allen (right). 39;' Tags: Advertising Celebrity Litigation Right of Publicity Yes, you read that correctly.
    THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog - Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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  • Defend SAG President Rosenberg’s Free Speech Rights? Yes….
    As Vallywood readers know, I have not been a strong supporter of the tactics and strategy put in place by the Membership First team at the Screen Actors Guild. SAG President Alan Rosenberg, First Vice President Anne Marie Johnson, Chief Negotiator David Jolliffe and their hand picked and now fired NED, Doug Allen, thought, mistakenly [.]
    King Harvest - Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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  • “Hurt Locker” Producers Seek to Hurt Wallets of Thousands of Individuals for Unlawful File-Sharing
    The strategy of suing average citizens for copyright infringement arising from illegal downloads is nothing new. However, this legal move by movie producers might signal a rebirth of this type of litigation strategy for combating Internet piracy. lawsuit filed last Monday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Image Source.
    JetLawBlog - Thursday, June 3, 2010
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  • Ringling Wins in Court, but Animal Groups Continue to Fight for the Elephants
    Perhaps this time, with a different statute and a different strategy, animal advocates will make more progress toward ending the suffering of Ringling’s elephants. JETL career contracts courts entertainment lawsuits legislation animal abuse animal rights ASPCA Barnum & Bailey circus elephants endangered species PETA Ringling Bros
    JetLawBlog - Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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  • Monday Morning JetLawg
    In the news… Doctor charged in connection with Michael Jackson’s death, Conrad Murray, refuses to negotiate a plea; legal team begins developing defense strategy. Rapper Jay-Z sues David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox over name of Dominican nightclub. home Internet connections.
    JetLawBlog - Monday, April 19, 2010
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  • The Bail Out
    Right now, the group think is pretty pessimistic and we’re in dire need of the equivalent of a global prescription for Prozac. Tough times like these will require media and entertainment companies as well as startups to rethink their strategies for investment and growth for the foreseeable future. Make a list of every Web 2.0
    DealFatigue - Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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