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    Guest Posting at Current Trends in Copyright, Trademark & Entertainment Law…

    Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

    I’m honored to have been asked to guest-post on Tamera Bennett’s “Current Trends in Copyright, Trademark & Entertainment Law” blog. My piece discusses the different ways in which copyright issues are handled in theatre.

    Copyright in pre 1978 unpublished works…

    Friday, October 31st, 2008

    Copyright geeks (like me) will enjoy  the  good discussion  of copyright protection for works created before 1978 but not published until after the new copyright act took effect.  Hat tip to Tara Warrington for spotting Leslie Klinger’s piece, and a nice analysis, using Bram Stoker’s alternate ending for Dracula, as an illustration.
    Here’s the link to Tara’s [...]

    at TheatreLawyer.com: A bit about collaboration agreements

    Thursday, October 30th, 2008

    I’ve just posted the final post  in a 3-part series of posts about the importance of Collaboration Agreements for writing and other creative teams.  See it on my other blog:  TheatreLawyer.com.

    Why Poor Man’s Copyright and Creative Commons didn’t work out for Quote Unquote Records

    Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

    Hat tip to Dallas based entertainment lawyer Tamera Bennett for her blog post explaining the need for official copyright registration. (at least to one web-hosting company).

    Independent label Quote Unquote Records’ website was recently taken down by its web hosting provider, after the label couldn’t produce copyright registration certificates for songs posted on its website in mp3 format.

    Never [...]

    Why and How artists MUST take action when their work is infringed.

    Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

    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 [...]

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