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Although it feels like the actors strike just ended, the SAG and AFTRA commercials contracts are expiring again at the end of October. Since we won’t know for several months whether there will be a strike, there are some important things that you can do now to prepare yourself and your clients in the event that union production is interrupted. Read more.
August 20, 2003
Sonny Bono was not just the other half of Sonny and Cher. Having survived life as a pop icon, Sonny Bono became a Congressman who has become memorialized in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. This Act has extended copyright protection by 20 years, and has given authors and their heirs and successors another chance to recapture rights. Read more.
August 7, 2003
In the recent case of Boule v. Hutton, 328 F.3d 84 (2d Cir. 2003), the Second Circuit declined to extend the availability of the Lanham Act to claims for false representation outside the context of mainstream commercial advertising. Read more.
August 6, 2003
Entertainment Law & Finance, Vol. 19, No. 3 published Sean F. Kane's article "Protecting Against Defamation Claims From Docudrama Productions".
June 30, 2003
A jury in Michigan sent shock waves through the advertising industry earlier this month when it awarded more than thirty million dollars to two men who alleged that Taco Bell stole from them the idea of using a Chihuahua in advertising. Read more.
June 15, 2003
Chief Justice Rehnquist cited Christopher Chase's article in the Arthur Andersen v. United States decision (544 U.S. 696) (2005). View Article
March 21, 2003
Black Enterprise Magazine named Lisa E. Davis as one of "Top 50 Black Power Brokers in Entertainment" in 2002. Read more.
December 10, 2002
2002 saw the tightening in Europe of rules and regulations governing tax advantaged or structured financing opportunities which had previously existed for US movie and television producers. Read more.
August 7, 2002
Sony suffered embarrassing allegations for the second time about its advertising recently, after the news media uncovered that Sony had used its employees to give an endorsement in a television commercial for one of its own films, "The Patriot." Read more.
September 16, 2001
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