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Attorney Fees Ruling
August 28, 2007
Copyright Infringement.
Clause & Effect
August 28, 2007
Recording Agreements/Forum-Selection Clause; Royalty Claims/Letter of Inducement; TV Music Scores/Synchhornization Royalties.
Counsel Concerns
August 28, 2007
Disqualification Motion.
Keeping Track of Celebrity Image Use
August 28, 2007
For celebrities, image is everything. For the entertainment lawyers who represent their interests, that means confronting ever more complex efforts to profit from (or poison) a client's fame. Among the talent-side lawyers, there's a small club of firms doing the lion's share of the image work for the big stars.
Cameo Clips
August 28, 2007
Concert Tours/Deal Breakdown; Right of Publicity/Web Photo Display; TV Interviews/Anti-SLAPP Law.
e-Discovery Docket Sheet
August 28, 2007
Recent court rulings in e-discovery.
Decision of Note: No Interference Seen in Failure of Deal Talks
August 28, 2007
The Appellate Court of Conn-ecticut affirmed that the rap group Fort Knox failed to establish that a member's brother tortiously interfered with the group's business expectancy of entering into a recording contract with rap mogul Master P.
In Modern Litigation, Here's One Important Rule
August 28, 2007
Frequently missing from the plethora of articles on the pitfalls and potential problems in electronic discovery data for the uninitiated or unaware is practical experience and analysis from the trenches. This article addresses key EDD issues and pitfalls in a particular case involving 44 million pages of electronic records and a jury verdict of about $570 million, with a focus on the consequences of retaining too much electronic information and ways to solve problems that plague large companies involved in e-discovery.
Solving the Fight over Union Residuals
August 28, 2007
The Writers Guild of America has been negotiating with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers for a new collective bargaining agreement. The current agreement expires on Oct. 31, 2007. The current agreements of the Directors Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild of America end on June 30, 2008. This article summarizes some of the key conflicts that may trigger threatened guild strikes. Most of these issues relate to the income base and calculation of residuals. This article suggests a simple and fair alternative method for calculating residuals that eliminates all the contentious issues, not just in the pending negotiations of the guild agreements, but also in practice.
College, Courts and Copies: South Texas Legal Battle Rages over DVDs
August 28, 2007
A judge in Alice, TX, has sealed two DVDs at the center of a legal fight being waged in two South Texas courts by the Coastal Bend College District against people who obtained copies of the discs.

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