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    Some legal guidelines for Photographers

    Monday, March 17th, 2008

    While surfing the net tonight, I discovered this article on Photojojo, which has some interesting tidbits of legal information for photographers.
    Most of the tips apply to amateur and professional photographers alike, but if your photos will be used for commercial purposes, don’t forget that some jurisdictions have stronger rights of publicity and privacy laws than […]

    Copyright and Contract in conflict?

    Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    Professor Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog has an interesting article about the simmering dispute over copyrights in photographs of public-domain works of art.
    It seems a public interest group recently downloaded scores of photographs from the Smithsonian Institution and posted them on the photo-sharing site flickr. The problem is… the […]

    More on Smoking Bans and the Theatre

    Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

    A good piece by Tony Brown for Sunday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer raises the question of whether city and state smoke-free ordinances can- or should- be applied to theatre. The piece draws the important comparison to censorship battles surrounding language and nudity in theater in past decades.
    According […]

    The WHAT monologues?

    Friday, March 30th, 2007

    “The Vagina Monologues” recently did a brief stint as “The HooHaa Monologues”.
    Metro.co.uk reports on a recent Florida based production of “The Vagina Monologues” being re-titled to address objections from a community member, then having its title restored after the author and publisher put their foot down.

    Non Smoking Ordinances vs. Smoking on Stage

    Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

    Zachary Pincus Roth has written an interesting piece about on-stage smoking in the theatre.
    Does the 1st Amendment apply to smoking as a form of “speech”. If the stage directions call for a cigarette, and it’s a significant part of a scene, isn’t a ban on smoking a ‘prior restraint’ on the expression of ideas?
    Could […]

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