Recent developments in video game cases and law.
February 02, 2006ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
Recent cases in Internet piracy of to the entertainment law community.
February 02, 2006ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled it had personal jurisdiction over accountants allegedly in-volved in a scheme to defraud in a film-production investment.
February 02, 2006ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Mandatory forum selection clauses are 'prima facie valid and should be enforced unless enforcement is shown by the resisting party to be 'unreasonable' under the circumstances. ... Plaintiff has failed to demonstrate that enforcement of the instant forum selection clause is 'unreasonable.'
February 02, 2006ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
February 02, 2006ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Motion to Withdraw
Section 1927 SanctionsFebruary 02, 2006ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Artists have sometimes used bankruptcy filings to end personal service agreements, such as recording contracts, and even as a tool in renegotiating deals. A key issue has been whether an artist's bankruptcy terminated such an agreement. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Poughkeepsie Division, has now decided that an artist in bankruptcy may reject an agreement he or she entered into for a third party to collect the artist's royalties.
February 02, 2006Stan SoocherLast November, when millions of music lovers were shocked to discover that Sony BMG Music Entertainment had installed spyware-type software on over 4.7 million CDs, Princeton University computer science professors Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman weren't surprised. The two computer-security experts uncovered Sony BMG's secret software ' designed to prevent CD piracy ' about a month before the public. But fearing copyright lawsuits from Sony BMG, Felten and Halderman say they kept their findings as hidden as the software. They aren't keeping quiet anymore. In December, the researchers filed a comment at the U.S. Copyright Office seeking an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the law that they say stifles their work.
February 02, 2006Lisa Lerer