Digital Media Law

AUGUST 5, 2010

SAG yesterday released the official list of candidates for its upcoming national board elections. Notably, all of the open seats in LA (the Hollywood Division) are held by MembershipFirst members, which means that, as was the case last year, MF can at best maintain its level of representation on the national board. More likely, it will lose some of its board seats. On the Hollywood divisional board, MF could gain or lose, as all division seats are up every year.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2018

The new case follows a similar action, which has stalled thanks to the bankruptcy of TWC. read more. THR, Esq. Business Movies Business THR Online The Weinstein Company

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Digital Media Law

JANUARY 12, 2009

The SAG National Board meeting began this morning at 9:00 a.m. Spotted among the hardline group were Ed Asner and National Board member Frances Fisher. accompanied by light informational leafleting from pro and con sources. The meeting is expected to be contentious. The leafleting was not. About 20 pro-hardline leafletters showed up, and about 5 anti-strike folks.

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Music Technology Policy

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Copyright Royalty Board Webcasting Ruling

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Digital Media Law

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The deal, which provides for 2% annual pay increases and a one-time 1.5% boost in pension and health, will soon go to the membership for ratification, with a ballot return date in January. Details: The Hollywood Reporter. Watch for my new book “Hollywood on Strike!,” due out next month. Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Check out my residuals chart there too. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The US Court of Appeals today released a decision upholding the Copyright Royalty Board’s 2015 decision setting the SoundExchange royalty rates for 2016-2020. Intellectual Property Internet Radio Music Rights copyright royalty board appeal court decision on webcasting royalties soundexchange royalties webcasting appealWe wrote about that decision here , and provided more details here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The full decision of the Copyright Royalty Board on Internet Radio royalties, excluding confidential information , has now been made public and is available here. The rates were adopted by the Copyright Royalty Board after a long hearing held last year, and after argument by the parties appearing in the case. We’ll have more details on the decision and the Board’s reasoning in the coming days, but the 203 pages of the decision are now available for your review.

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Digital Media Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The SAG Board met yesterday and re-affirmed actions already taken in writing two weeks earlier: the ouster of former National Executive Director Doug Allen and the replacement of the negotiating team. The Board’s vote would appear to render moot a lawsuit filed last week by SAG president Alan Rosenberg. The change results from two Membership First board members, Angela Watson and Keith Carradine, breaking ranks and voting with the SAG moderates.

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Digital Media Law

APRIL 11, 2011

The retirement plan is said to have lost $2-3 million because of an alleged breach of fiduciary duty by the bank.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The US Court of Appeals today released a decision upholding the Copyright Royalty Board’s 2015 decision setting the SoundExchange royalty rates for 2016-2020. Intellectual Property Internet Radio Music Rights copyright royalty board appeal court decision on webcasting royalties soundexchange royalties webcasting appealWe wrote about that decision here , and provided more details here.

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Media Law Prof Blog

MAY 15, 2018

Via the Guardian: Umesh Pandey, who has been the editor of the Bangkok Post since 2016, says he has stepped down from that position under pressure from the Board of Editors because he will not "tone down" his criticism of

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Digital Media Law

OCTOBER 5, 2010

For details, see my THR piece: [link]. ——————. Watch for my new book “Hollywood on Strike!,” due out this month. Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Check out my residuals chart there too. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. Or, follow me on Twitter or friend me on Facebook. If you work in tech, check out my book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets

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Digital Media Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

At a videoconference meeting today in New York and LA, AFTRA’s national board unanimously voted to approve joint bargaining with SAG for the Primetime Television Contract and the SAG TV/theatrical contract. The move comes a month after SAG’s national board voted, by a tally of 82% to 18%, to “seek engagement with AFTRA in a joint bargaining agreement for negotiation of the Television/Theatrical Contract.”

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2016

Keryn Redstone adds more family drama to Viacom board circus. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Business THR Online

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Digital Media Law

DECEMBER 4, 2010

A ballot referendum recommending ratification will soon go out to members, for return by mid-January. Details: The Hollywood Reporter. Watch for my new book “Hollywood on Strike!,” due out next month. Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Check out my residuals chart there too. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. Or, follow me on Twitter , friend me on Facebook , or subscribe to my Forbes.com or Huffington Post articles.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JUNE 24, 2018

For the tens of thousands of Indians who went to boarding schools, it's largely remembered as a time of abuse and desecration of culture. The government still operates a handful of off-reservation boarding schools, but funding is in decline. Save the Man' The late performer and Indian activist Floyd Red Crow Westerman was haunted by his memories of boarding school. As a child, he left his reservation in South Dakota for the Wahpeton Indian Boarding School in North Dakota.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JUNE 24, 2018

How Boarding Schools Tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ Through Assimilation - HISTORY

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Digital Media Law

APRIL 30, 2011

The move today was SAG’s, whose national board has now unanimously established a merger taskforce to work with AFTRA to develop “a formal plan to unite SAG and AFTRA members in one union,” in the words of a SAG statement. The goal is ambitious: to have a plan for approval by the two unions’ national boards in January 2012.

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Media Law Prof Blog

APRIL 14, 2014

The Pulitzer Prize Board has named its winners for 2014. On the list: The Guardian US and the Washington Post won for public service, for coverage of the Edward Snowden story, the Boston Globe won the breaking news prize for

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Music Technology Policy

APRIL 2, 2018

What also can’t be said enough: Where was the board? Everything is not awesome at 1 Hacker Way. No, the House of Zuck is in serious trouble over many aspects of the business model that Sheryl Sandberg perfected for Facebook.

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Digital Media Law

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Yet, strangely enough, the leaders of the losing hardline faction will all find seats on the national board, and will continue to be a shadow government within the union’s Hollywood board—a board on which, in contrast, none of the key moderate leaders will be voting members. The moderates seemingly have 27 seats on the Hollywood board out of 55 (because 27 = 6 seats pre-election plus 21 additional seats won in the election).

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

MAY 17, 2018

In a struggle over power, and with the possible fate of would-be merger between CBS and Viacom on the line, Redstone scores the first big win in CBS' audacious lawsuit. read more. THR, Esq. Television Television Business THR Online

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Gordon P. Firemark

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The Entertainment trades are reporting that the SAG Board today voted to reject the “final&# offer made by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, setting the stage for more turmoil and the possibility of an Actor’s strike.

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Digital Media Law

JUNE 22, 2009

Current WGA West president Patric Verrone is running for one of the open board seats, but not for president (I believe there are term limits). There are 16 candidates nominated to run for eight open seats on the WGAW’s Board of Directors, as follows: Luvh Rakhe, Linda Burstyn, Mick Betancourt, Jan Oxenberg, Howard A. Members seeking nomination for the Board of Directors must obtain 25 member signatures in support of their petitions.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Are MGM and Paramount Pictures union-busting? Is the American Federation of Musicians tampering with witnesses in a lawsuit over wages and benefits? A labor dispute escalates. read more. THR, Esq. Business Movies Music Business THR Online Labor

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Music Technology Policy

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

One of the most unusual aspects of the non-profit collective to be established under the Music Modernization Act is the method of codifying the number of seats on the board of directors (and a couple other boards) and designating the characteristics of the kind of person who gets to hold those seats. (Of The composition of an organization’s board is something that is always handled in the organization’s by-laws. Board members–serve at your peril.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office thinks consumers might confuse a streaming 'Jaws' cooking program with the silver-screen shark of the same name. read more. THR, Esq. Movies Movies THR Online

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Music Technology Policy

JULY 28, 2014

When Google’s current Chief Business Officer Omid Kordestani mysteriously took a seat on Spotify’s board of directors , this was just the latest in a series of moves extending Google’s dominant business influence throughout the Internet economy. “ This is, of course, a reminder of the typical interlocking boards and investors in the clubby world of Silicon Valley venture capital and technology companies. A keiretsu ( ?? ,

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Media Law Prof Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

James Murdoch was re-elected to the Board of Directors of BSkyB. More here from The Hollywood Reporter

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2014

Last week, the Copyright Royalty Board published in the Federal Register its decision on Internet radio royalties for 2011-2015. At one point in summarizing the rates that had been proposed by the parties that had originally participated in the case, the Board noted that all had proposed per song per listener rates, surmising that no percentage of revenue rate was offered based on the perception that the Board had not in the past been open to such a royalty plan.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are among the defendants. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Movies Business THR Online

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Music Technology Policy

AUGUST 10, 2014

Google has entered into a proposed settlement agreement with a group of Google shareholders that sued Google’s top executives and board members for breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, corporate waste and unjust enrichment.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Live365, an Internet radio aggregator, is challenging the constitutionality of the Copyright Royalty Board, the. By Eriq Gardner President Obama has a lot on his plate these days. But how about the rates that webcasters pay for copyright statutory licenses?

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Digital Media Law

JUNE 3, 2009

Many candidates were reelected, but new winners include two Membership First leaders—SAG 1 st VP Anne-Marie Johnson (AFTRA national board) and former SAG Hollywood Board member David Jolliffe (AFTRA Los Angeles local board)—as well as Membership First member Alan Ruck (AFTRA national board). I believe they join several MF stalwarts already on one or the other AFTRA boards. Johnson and Jolliffe bring a particularly interesting dynamic to the AFTRA boards.

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Digital Media Law

JANUARY 13, 2009

The SAG National Board meeting, which began about 9:00 a.m. As I left, food arrived, suggesting more long hours for the sleep-deprived board, including the jet-lagged New Yorkers and regional (RBD) members. Meanwhile, inside the James Cagney Room, the oversize SAG board – 71 people if all members attended or were represented by alternates – were holding an undoubtedly contentious meeting, accompanied by an unknown number of staff members.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JULY 29, 2016

For the second time in two days, a judge won't dismiss a battle over Sumner Redstone's competency. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Television Business THR Online

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

The deal was approved by 93 percent read more. The Business THR Online THR, Esq. Television SAG-AFTRA Labor Business

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 2, 2016

The Copyright Royalty Board Decision on the royalty rates to be paid for the public performance of sound recordings by Internet radio companies – webcasting royalties – was published in the Federal Register today. Intellectual Property Internet Radio Music Rights copyright royalty board appeal small webcaster sound recording performance royalty webcasting royalties

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Digital Media Law

JANUARY 6, 2009

The SAG National Board is meeting next Monday and Tuesday, Jan. The moderates and independents in the board room may have a hard time opposing this gambit. That said, I’m not placing any bets, because there are many possible outcomes of the board meeting. Oh, and by the way, the Hollywood Board is meeting next Thursday. That meeting’s agenda will presumably depend (at least in part) on what happens at the National Board meeting next Monday and Tuesday.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 29, 2015

The Copyright Royalty Board has begun the hearing phase of its proceeding to set the royalties to be paid by webcasters (or noninteractive digital music ser vices) for public performances of sound recordings for the years 2016-2020. After the presentation of the witnesses, the parties’ lawyers again stand before the Board to present closing statements, orally summarizing the evidence that has been presented and arguing where that evidence should lead the CRB.

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Media Law Prof Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2013

After discovering that a 2001 ban on the iconic novel To Kill a Mockingbird had been in place since 2001 and had apparently not been enforced, the Plaquemines Parish (Louisiana) School Board thought about enforcing the ban.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The text of the Copyright Royalty Board decision on Internet Radio Royalties for 2026-2020 was released last Friday. Thus, the Board determined that the rate for nonsubscription, noninteractive services should be $.0017 Prior to making its decision, the Board had asked for legal guidance from the Copyright Office, asking for a legal opinion as to whether the setting a bifurcated rate was legally permissible under the provisions of the Copyright Act.

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Media Law Prof Blog

MARCH 26, 2013

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the editorial board of the Journal of Library Adminstration, a leading publication in the area of library management, has resigned en masse over the publisher's copyright policy. The now former editor, Damon Jaggers

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