LJN Newsletters

  • Media & Communications Corner: Outsource Those Nagging Attorney Biographies

    It is time to rewrite your attorney biographies. Send the e-mail, make the calls, reschedule appointments, beg for replies, threaten, and throw up your hands in frustration. Nothing works, right? Inevitably, you will receive incomplete information at the twelfth hour and be left scrambling to put something together for the Web site. Meanwhile, all other marketing initiatives come to a screeching halt, or are given a cursory glance, as time, resources and money are focused on producing biographies. There has to be an easier way. Well, there is, just read on.

    October 01, 2004Tyson Andrus

  • PR's Return On Investment

    Last year's first Annual Law Firm Media Performance Report broke new ground with data that examined, on a market-by-market basis, the relative aggressiveness with which U.S. and global firms utilize media coverage as a component of their marketing strategies.
    The greater depth of focus for this year's study obviously required an analytic approach beyond simply computing media appearances.

    October 01, 2004Levick Strategic Communications, LLC, in collaboration with CARMA International

  • Cameo Clips

    Recent cases in entertainment law.

    October 01, 2004ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Decision of Note: Copyright Ruling On Suit Time, Damages

    In a case with several notable aspects, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that under Sec. 507(b) of the Copyright Act of 1976, a plaintiff can file suit for alleged infringements that occur more than 3 years before the filing of the complaint, as long as the plaintiff didn't, or reasonably couldn't have, discovered the allegedly infringing activity within the Act's 3-year limitation period. Polar Bear Productions Inc. v. Timex Corp.

    October 01, 2004Stan Soocher

  • Courthouse Steps

    Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

    October 01, 2004ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Counsel Concerns

    Issues in serving as a lawyer in the entertainment industry.

    October 01, 2004Stan Soocher

  • Bit Parts

    Recent developments in entertainment law.

    October 01, 2004Stan Soocher

  • Commentary Perspective On Anniversary Of RIAA File-Sharing Suits

    Four thousand two hundred and eighty lawsuits and counting. That's how many lawsuits have been brought by the major record labels against music fans for using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software (like KaZaA or Morpheus) to swap music over the Internet. The 1-year anniversary has just been reached in the recording industry's unprecedented litigation campaign against its own customers.

    October 01, 2004Fred von Lohmann

  • Cash-Flow Insurance Is No Guarantee For Financing of Film Productions

    Putting together a film financing package can often be risky. Artisan Entertainment learned that after it thought it had entered into an essentially risk-free financing deal to produce eight films. But after its cash-flow insurer refused to accept some of the films, Artisan found itself on the losing end of a lawsuit that offers insights into just how complex and tricky film financing can be.

    October 01, 2004Stan Soocher

  • Sixth Circuit Gives Different Views On Infringement

    Issuing two important copyright-infringement decisions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently offered different methods for dealing with different types of disputed works.

    October 01, 2004Stan Soocher