Music Technology Policy

JANUARY 12, 2019

This week the European Parliament issued a scathing rejection of Google and Facebook’s massive lobbying campaign against Members of the European Parliament over what’s often called “Article 13”, or the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Article 13 is the first meaningful attempt to reverse the European safe harbor income transfer and close the value gap. . Yet Article 13 is a crucial step toward restoring creator rights both in and outside Europe.

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

Jon Penney, University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, and Danielle Keats Citron, University of Maryland School of Law, are publishing When Law Frees Us to Speak in the Fordham Law Review. Here is the abstract. A central aim of online

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Media Law

JANUARY 15, 2019

A Chicago-area startup founded by a lawyer who was concerned about his inability to securely message with colleagues and clients today launched a secure messaging app for iOS and Android that is designed to meet the security needs of legal professionals.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2019

Rudy Guiliani says, 'I have never said there was no collusion' between Trump campaign and Russia - The Washington Post

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Music Technology Policy

JANUARY 14, 2019

Data profiling requires a lot of computing power. Really a whole bunch. When you’re talking that much electricity, you’re talking government. When you’re talking government, you’re talking lobbying. And in this case, looking at the political landscape from the data center point of view might explain a whole lot of oddball results.

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

Robert Craig, London School of Economics & Political Science, has published The End of Innocence: Open Justice, Free Speech and Privacy in the Modern Constitution – Khuja (Formerly PNM) V Times Newspapers Limited at 82 Modern Law Review 129 (2019

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Media Law

JANUARY 17, 2019

For as long as I can remember in attending the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW conference, one constant has persisted: the prominent presence in the exhibit hall of Thomson Reuters or its predecessor West Publishing Company. This year, that will change. When TECHSHOW opens Feb. 27 in Chicago, Thomson Reuters will not be among the exhibitors. Thomson Reuters confirmed this week that it will not exhibit at TECHSHOW this year. Last year, it spent $137,000 to exhibit at TECHSHOW.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

In our summary of January regulatory issues for broadcasters , we suggested that the Copyright Royalty Board this month might start WEB V , the next proceeding to determine the rates that Internet radio stations and other webcasters pay to SoundExchange for the noninteractive public performance of sound recordings. The current royalties (see our initial article on the decision setting current royalties here , and one that provided more details here ) expire at the end of 2020.

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

Erin Carroll, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Platforms and the Fall of the Fourth Estate: Looking Beyond the First Amendment to Protect Watchdog Journalism. Here is the abstract. Journalists see the First Amendment as an amulet, and with good

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Media Law

JANUARY 14, 2019

?. What do you get if you combine a virtual receptionist service with artificial intelligence? Spoiler alert: The answer is not robots answering the phone. Rather, the folks at Smith.ai say the combination results in a superior receptionist service for both live calls and website chat. By incorporating AI, they say, their service continually gets smarter as it comes to know your practice and your clients. On this episode of LawNext, I speak with Smith.ai’s

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 17, 2019

Jake Linford, Florida State University College of Law, is publishing 'Tell the Truth': Truth in Music Advertising Post Tam in the Oxford Handbook of Music Law and Policy (forthcoming). Here is the abstract. There are two morals in David Bowie’s

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

Amy Adler, New York University School of Law, has published Art's First Amendment Status: A Cultural History of The Masses in volume 50 of the Arizona State Law Journal (2018). Here is the abstract. This Article explores a little-known chapter

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University Department of Political Science, is publishing Academic Freedom and the Scope of Protections for Extramural Speech in Academe. Here is the abstract. Advocates for faculty have long argued that "extramural speech" - off-campus speech by

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

Ken Oliphant, University of Bristol Law School, Zhang Pinghua, Yantai University Law School, and Chen Lei, City University of Hong Kong, Centre for Chinese & Comparative Law, are publishing The Legal Protection of Personality Rights: Chinese and European Perspectives in

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

Journalist Bob Woodward will receive the 2019 Literary Service Award at PEN America's Literary Gala on May 21, 2019. More here

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Media Law

JANUARY 15, 2019

I had the great pleasure to be a guest last week on the final episode of This Week in Law , the video podcast that Denise Howell has hosted for 12 years, most recently with cohosts Stefan Szpajda and Matt Curtis. If you missed the live broadcast, the recording is now available to view.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2019

"WASHINGTON — In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2019

"A person shouldn’t have to be a “genius” or “economically productive” to have access to equal opportunity." By Jin Park "In November, I became the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiary to win the Rhodes scholarship. The news was bittersweet.

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Media Law

JANUARY 17, 2019

SAGlobal will acquire the LexisOne cloud-based practice management application from LexisNexis, according to an agreement the two companies planned to announce tomorrow. SAGlobal had notified me of the news earlier today on the condition that I agree to an embargo and not publish it until tomorrow morning. Since then, however, Legal IT Insider broke the story.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

Steve King's racism begins to catch up with him among GOP

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

The government shutdown is affecting food safety inspections

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

Law scholar weighs in on Trump as Russian asset

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Media Law

JANUARY 14, 2019

InCloudCounsel , a U.S. company that provides corporations and law firms with freelance attorneys to handle routine legal work, is today announcing its expansion into Europe with the opening of an office in London to serve the UK and European legal markets. Leading the office and the company’s expansion there is Bridget K. Deiters , a London-based managing director at InCloudCounsel.

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