Satellite Television/Programming-Exclusivity Agreements.
July 31, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Every night in Las Vegas, Baby Boomers plunk down $47.30 each and file into the Sahara Hotel & Casino's Congo Room to revisit the sounds of their youth. They've come to spend an evening with 'The Platters, Drifters, Coasters.' It's a performance steeped in nostalgia, save one element: None of the artists on stage were ever members of the musical groups that most remember as the Platters, the Coasters or the Drifters.
July 31, 2007Cheryl MillerCopyright Infringement/Claim Dismissal; Decryption-Software Sales/Illegality Defense.
July 31, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided that the unlicensed use of songs for karaoke recordings was not a fair use. Zomba Enterprises Inc. v. Panorama Records Inc., 06-5013.
July 31, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |If a music file is downloaded to a computer and no one is there to play it, does it constitute a performance? This is not some question from a digital-age freshman philosophy seminar ' it was the legal issue recently facing Judge William C. Connor in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), 485 F.Supp.2d 438 (S.D.N.Y. 2007).
July 31, 2007Stephen M. KramarskyRecent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
July 31, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Hardly a day goes by without major media attention to global warming and the need to develop and invest in sources of alternative energy. Legislation to encourage investment in renewable energy has bipartisan support. Tax legislation passed in 2005 and 2006 extended the renewable energy production tax credit and the energy investment tax credit to facilities placed in service before Jan. 1, 2009. Further extension and expansion of these credits is expected from the current Congress. The extension of the tax credits, the adoption of minimum alternative energy requirements by many states, and greater public and political support for alternative energy resources have increased interest in the development and financing of wind, biomass, geothermal, and solar facilities. An active financing market has developed.
July 31, 2007Philip H. SpectorHighlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
July 31, 2007Hany Rizkalla
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