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Downsizing: Being the Messenger May Actually Be Good for Your Career

Michael DeCosta

Whether or not to adjust the number of employees or partners downward can be a critical decision for 2008. In the event it does happen, marketing executives will, undoubtedly, be asked to help craft appropriate messages to both the market and within their own firms in advance of rumor mills, blogs, and especially, the competitors offering their own take on the changes. However daunting the task, working through such scenarios can go a long way toward preserving your firm's reputation and bolstering your own career opportunities within your current firm or with a prospective employer.

Educating Marketing Professionals on Key Financial Metrics and Measurements

Stephen M. (Pete) Peterson

This article discusses two strategic but basic tenets of law firm finance and economics — matter profitability and return on investment (ROI) — and how marketing and finance professionals can work together to link marketing and financial strategies.

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ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

FILM PRODUCTION/DEFAMATION<br>FILM PRODUCTION/TRADEMARKS, DEFAMATION<br>KARAOKE LICENSES/LANHAM ACT, COPYRIGHT CLAIMS

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Stan Soocher

Celebrity Indicia/Licensee's Web Site<br>Film Exhibition/Use Tax<br>Film Production/Copyright, Unfair-Competition Claims<br>Right of Publicity/Counting Statutory Claims

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GA Court to Rule on Suit over TV Show Interactive Element

Alyson M. Palmer

Text messages, cell phones, TV game shows, Howie Mandel ' none of these could have been contemplated by Georgia's colonial lawmakers when they first passed a law allowing gamblers to recover their losses through lawsuits. The current version of the law is at the center of a case against NBC Universal and the producer of Mandel's hit show, 'Deal or No Deal,' now being considered by the Georgia Supreme Court.

Download Ruling May Raise Burden for Record Labels

Thomas B. Scheffey

Those who download music to their computers now have two unlikely heroes. One is Janet Bond Arterton, a federal judge who sits in New Haven, CT. The other is Christopher David Brennan, a young Waterford, CT, resident who, among other artists, has reportedly downloaded songs by Billy Joel and Hootie and the Blowfish.

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Practice Notes

Kellie Schmitt & Petra Pasternak

Sonnenschein Team Leaves to Found MSK NY Office<br>TV-Company Deal Highlights U.S. Risk Allocation

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Fed Court Believes It Can't Consider Copyright Issue

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ordered defendant Artisan Pictures to show cause why a suit against it for payment of film-acquisition rights shouldn't be remanded to state court. The federal court noted it 'likely lacks' subject matter jurisdiction over the declaratory suit, even though the case involves whether copyright claims over licenses for film music were time barred.

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Exploring the Substantial-Similarity Test in Suits Alleging Breach of Implied Contract

Stan Soocher

Copyright-infringement cases alleging that a defendant improperly used a plaintiff's work for a movie or TV show often hinge on whether there's substantial similarity between the litigating parties' works. But substantial similarity plays a role in breach-of-implied-contract cases alleging defendants based their film or show on a plaintiff's work. A recent ruling by the California Court of Appeal serves as an informative review of California case law in this legal area and its current application.

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Think You Know What Constitutes Good Cause?

Kevin C. McCormick

Many employers believe that since they make the first call as to whether cause exists, that is the final call. However, as demonstrated by the jury verdict in a recent Maryland trial, it is the jury, not the employer, that gets to make the final call as to whether cause exists. <i>Kinsbourne, et al. v. 180's LLC.</i>

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