Website Accessibility Rules Are Still on Target
A recent federal court ruling, <i>National Association of the Deaf v. Netflix, Inc.</i>, held that California's state disability rights laws applied to a website, despite the absence of a bricks-and-mortar store nexus. Instead, the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) pursued the accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of a "website only" firm with no real-world presence ' Netflix.
Litigators Get (Anti-) Social in the Crusade For Brand Protection
As networkers blog about everything from the banal to the ridiculous, sifting through the social media landscape for brand protection intelligence can seem like a task of Herculean proportions. While some postings are retweeted like wildfire, garnering global exposure, others sit buried and largely unread. However, if brand owners get it right, they are sitting on a gold mine of information.
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Attorney Fees in Litigation over Three Production Agreements Reduced Proportionately<br>Judicial Arbitrator Finds Material Breach by Jimi Hendrix Estate in Documentary Production<br>William Morris Gets Out of Missouri <i>Santa Paws</i> Suit
<b><i>Commentary: </i>Keeping Copyright Preemption on Track</b>
The bedrock of the film industry is the protection afforded by the Copyright Act, as without it all is for naught ' no one would spend more than a few dollars to make a film if it could not be protected. It is thus necessary for us to jealously guard the proper application of the Copyright Act and we should have qualms when copyright cases go off track. One critical aspect of the Copyright Act is the degree to which it preempts state law.
