New Media and Technology Law

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Negotiations between television channels/networks and pay TV operators are a breed apart. But the critical factor that sets these negotiations apart is the actual regulation of the negotiations under three main categories of rules. Broadcasters may invoke “Must Carry” status or seek to negotiate terms for “retransmission” under FCC rules requiring “good faith” negotiations. The stakes are high and the consequence of failure – a “dark” screen – is all too public.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2017

Lifting foreign equity caps and overhauling safe harbor protections for Internet companies is on the agenda for the MPAA and others. read more. THR, Esq. Business Movies Television Music Tech Business THR Online

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JULY 19, 2016

So there’s a lot of negotiations going on." Susan Estrich reveals talks are ongoing for the mogul's role at the network he founded and that "exit agreements can take all kinds of different forms, including agreements that provide for continuing roles. read more. THR, Esq. THR, Esq.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

The injunction is not intended to kill the documentary, but to save time, money and court resources while Franklin and 'Amazing Grace' producer Alan Elliot come to terms on a deal. read more. THR, Esq. Movies Movies THR Online

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Gordon P. Firemark

JANUARY 22, 2014

It seems they're teaching negotiating skills. I think they apply equally well to the art of negotiating deals in show business. ” Negotiations always start with an ask. Their wants and needs are the other moving parts in the negotiation.

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Digital Media Law

DECEMBER 6, 2011

AFTRA’s negotiations with the networks and television producers resume this week and the big issue, according to a source close to the process, is the same one that’s bedeviled Hollywood labor for the past several years: health and retirement. Negotiations began November 7 under a press blackout, but haven’t produced a deal yet.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The media regulatory agency is signaling a more hands-on approach in favor of telcos, says one analyst. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Television Business THR Online

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2016

The cable giant is fighting a complaint that it discriminated against the Spanish-language network, Estrella TV. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Television Tech Business THR Online

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The action comes just as AT&T is to submit its $85 billion proposed acquisition of Time Warner to regulators. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Television Business THR Online

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Digital Media Law

JANUARY 19, 2011

Lowell Peterson also confirms that there is no date set for negotiations. See The Hollywood Reporter exclusive. _. 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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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Effective negotiation and deal making often require more than selling to the highest bidder. You’re not looking for a love fest here; merely a path towards building trust over subsequent negotiations. Does aggressive negotiation help, hinder or have no effect on the next deal?

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Digital Media Law

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

An exclusive look inside the bargaining room of last Sunday's deal that insiders say went right down to the wire. Details in my Hollywood Reporter piece. -. 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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Digital Media Law

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The guild’s role in New Zealand dispute had been previously unknown. For details, see my THR piece. -. 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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Media Law Prof Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Carol Pauli, Texas A&M University School of Law, is publishing Enemy of the People: Negotiating News at the White House in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution.

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 28, 2007

On Friday night, Dave McNary reported in Variety that after three months of unproductive negotiations and just days before the current contract expires, the US government is set to mediate negotiations between the WGA, the networks and the studios.

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 28, 2007

On Friday night, Dave McNary reported in Variety that after three months of unproductive negotiations and just days before the current contract expires, the US government is set to mediate negotiations between the WGA, the networks and the studios.

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 28, 2007

On Friday night, Dave McNary reported in Variety that after three months of unproductive negotiations and just days before the current contract expires, the US government is set to mediate negotiations between the WGA, the networks and the studios.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

This isn't a negotiation," she tells the network's execs. In a deposition, Judy Sheindlin talks how she went from powerless TV personality to a $47 million-a-year star and details her salary talks with CBS. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Business THR Online

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Despite the pop star's sexual abuse allegations, the judge says it's not reasonable to "decimate a contract that was heavily negotiated." read more. THR, Esq. The Business Music Business THR Online Dr. Luke

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DealFatigue

JULY 31, 2008

There’s nothing new about lying during negotiations. Then as now, negotiating is nothing less than a confrontational (and largely, animal instinct-driven) struggle for limited resources.

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DealFatigue

JULY 31, 2008

There’s nothing new about lying during negotiations. Then as now, negotiating is nothing less than a confrontational (and largely, animal instinct-driven) struggle for limited resources.

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DealFatigue

JULY 31, 2008

There’s nothing new about lying during negotiations. Then as now, negotiating is nothing less than a confrontational (and largely, animal instinct-driven) struggle for limited resources.

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Music Technology Policy

AUGUST 18, 2012

Although this interview is from 2009, it gives you some insight into Google's over the top negotiation tactics and how they use the withholding of content as a negotiation tactic in the press (that Chris discussed in his commentary to Larry Crane's complaint about YouTube "apologizing" for taking his work). That contract ended at the end of December 2008, at which time Google and PRS entered negotiations to renew the contract.

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DealFatigue

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Independent Film Internet Negotiations Start-ups Startups The Culture Venture Capital More With Less. Closing binder for $3 million film financing (left). Closing binder for $25 million VC startup financing (right).

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Digital Media Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

A lawsuit to be filed this morning by Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg against his own union has blocked scheduled negotiations between the Guild and the studio alliance, or AMPTP. The development marks a stunning turn in a SAG negotiating cycle that has moved so far beyond bizarre in the last 12 months that words seem inadequate. Thus, if granted, the order would (among other things) apparently reinstate Allen and the previous negotiating team.

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Digital Media Law

MARCH 17, 2009

Though it gets less play than the stalled SAG TV/theatrical talks , SAG and AFTRA have been jointly negotiating for several weeks with the advertising industry over the commercials contract. Now, after industry statements that the negotiations had been going reasonably well, the talks seem to have hit a snag, and the unions may seek a strike authorization vote from their members, reports The Wrap. That report cautions that the leaks may be just a negotiating ploy.

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Music Technology Policy

MARCH 18, 2013

That contract ended at the end of December 2008, at which time Google and PRS entered negotiations to renew the contract. Reblogged from MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY: An interview by composer Jonathan David Neal with Andrew Shaw, Managing Director of Broadcast and Online of PRS for Music. Background: In the summer of 2007 PRS For Music, the UK PRO, licensed You Tube, owned by Google, for music use on a per download basis.

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Digital Media Law

JULY 21, 2012

SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry have agreed to postpone their previously-scheduled early negotiations of the union’s commercials agreement, the union announced Saturday.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The dispute veered from a possible discussion of cover songs to differing interpretations of what happened in licensing negotiations. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Music Business THR Online

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The Legal Satyricon

MAY 30, 2015

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Digital Media Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The SAG and AFTRA Commercials Contracts will be bargained under the terms of the Phase One Agreement that applies to the Commercials Contracts negotiations only. Negotiations are scheduled to commence on February 23 in New York. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about Hollywood Labor, or digital media law. The SAG-AFTRA commercials contract seems to be suffering little of the turbulence afflicting the long-expired SAG TV/theatrical contract. So far anyway.

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Digital Media Law

APRIL 28, 2010

The Directors Guild announced on its website today that it will begin negotiations with the AMPTP (studio alliance) in mid-November, which is immediately after the scheduled end of 45 days of negotiation between the AMPTP and SAG (Screen Actors Guild) & AFTRA (a smaller performers union). The DGA contract (like those of SAG, AFTRA and the WGA) expires in mid-2011, but the DGA always negotiates early.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

While much of the broadcast industry’s attention has been focused on the designation for hearing of Entercom’s license for the Sacramento radio station involved in the contest that went very much wrong (see our article here ), many have not focused on a case that one might think would be far more appropriate for a judge to sort out.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Talks on the agreement, which covers daytime and syndicated programs, are likely to be smooth read more. The Business AMPTP THR Online THR, Esq. Television SAG-AFTRA Labor Business

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DealFatigue

MAY 30, 2007

A literary agent recently lied to me during a negotiation. Anyone who negotiates for a living; indeed, anyone with any meaningful time in the business might find that unremarkable. Negotiations continued over several days and Agent agreed to the new terms subject to Writer’s approval.

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