The City of New York has agreed to relax its film permit requirements. According to the Associated Press, Filmmakers and photographers using handheld equipment on city streets will no longer be required to obtain permits. In January, 2006 The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of an award-winning filmmaker detained by…
The Wall Street Journal reports that a 12-year-old girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education alleging that a substitute teacher showed “Brokeback Mountain†in class. The complaint claims that Jessica Turner was traumatized after viewing the movie in her 8th grade class last year. They want $500,000 in damages for the…
On Monday, June 4th, 2007, Gordon Firemark will present “All the World’s a Stage†– Basics of Theatre Law for Hollywood lawyers. The Theater is among the first-developed of America’s entertainment industry businesses, and a significant body of law exists surrounding this business, yet the legal, regulatory and collectively bargained frameworks within which theater producers,…