I've just read a case out of the Federal Court in Idaho (Alamar Ranch, LLC v. City of Boise, 2009 WL 3669741 (D. Idaho Nov. 2, 2009)) which held that emails sent by a non-party to her attorney using a work computer were NOT protected by ...
I've just read a case out of the Federal Court in Idaho (Alamar Ranch, LLC v. City of Boise, 2009 WL 3669741 (D. Idaho Nov. 2, 2009)) which held that emails sent by a non-party to her attorney using a work computer were NOT protected by ...
I'm very pleased to announce today's launch of a new web portal, search site and aggregator dedicated to information about Entertainment and Media Law. The Entertainment and Media Law content community collects and organizes the best information from around the web to help readers learn ...
UPDATE: News.com reports in greater depth on this situation, and as it turns out, the system isn't a unilateral, automated removal of soundtracks at all. Apparently,YouTube identifies videos with unlicensed music using an automated filter, and then notifies the uploader/user of the situation, giving the CHOICE to mute the audio, or remove the entire video. ...
Every creative person, whether an actor, writer, filmmaker, musician or painter runs the risk of his or her work eventually being copied without permission. While sometimes, this copying is done with a clear profit motive, an increasingly common vector by which unauthorized copies appear is through well-intentioned friends and fans posting an artist's song, photograph, painting ...
Every website operator or blogger should have a clear, concise privacy policy conspicuously posted on the site. Failure to do so, or using a cut-and-pasted policy from another site is a recipe for disaster.