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THE RIGHT OF
PUBLICITY
Schuyler Moore, Daniel Rozansky &
Michael Niborski, Are
Computer-Generated Movie Stars a Possiblity?
Communications
Lawyer, Winter 2007
Edwin F.
McPherson, Voice
Misappropriation in California: Bette Midler, Tom Waits and Grandma Burger,
11 U.Miami Bus.L.Rev. 43 (2003)
Lawrence Rosenthal, Christoper R. Donoho, Richard
Eskew& Patrick G. Diamond,
Celebrity Rights of
Publicity: For Sale But Not Necessarily Available to Creditors,
Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal,
March
2007
Edwin F. McPherson, Truth in
Advertising: A Look at One Right of Publicity Case Gone Terribly Wrong,
Texas Review of Sports and Entertainment Law, Spring,
2000
Vincent H. Chieffo, Dead
and Not Yet Gone, International Association of Entertainment
Lawyers (2005)
Vincent H. Chieffo, Vanna
White and Tom Waits: Recent Decisions Expand Rights of Celebrities to Resist
Unwanted
Commercial Exploitation, California Business Law
Reporter December, 1992
Joseph D. Schleimer,
Legal
Problems Protecting the Virtual Rights of Living and Deceased Actors
,
Entertainment Law & Finance , October, 2000
Joseph D. Schleimer, Aggressive Lawyering to Protect the Virtual
Rights of Living and Deceased Actors, Part II
(published with Part I in
Viera, Thorne & Breimer, Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts
Handbook,
West Publishing
2002)
Edwin F. McPherson, Gonna Wash That Right of
Publicity Right Out of My Hair: Life After Toney v. L'Oreal,
4 J.
Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop.L. 349 (2005)
ENFORCING ROYALTY
AGREEMENTS
Martin D. Katz & Lisa Stutz, Motion Picture
Litigation: Courts Need to Constrain Fiduciary Duty to Narrow Class of
Relationships,
Los Angeles Daily Journal, April 6,
2006
Vincent H. Chieffo, Its a
Crude Crude World: The Buchwald Case, Montage, April, 1990
Joseph D. Schleimer, Initiating
Participation Audits in the Motion Picture/Television
Industry,
Entertainment Law &
Finance, October, 1996
Stan Soocher & Joseph D. Schleimer, Strategies for Litigating Net Proft Accounting
Suits,
New York Law Journal, September 27, 1996
Joseph D. Schleimer, A Model Audit
Clause for Use in Motion Picture/Television Participation
Agreements,
UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium,
1996
Appendix: Sills and Adelmann
Model Audit Clause,by Joseph D. Schleimer, Steven Sills,
,C.P.A.
and William Adelmann, C.P.A.UCLA Entertainment Law
Symposium, 1996
COPYRIGHT
Michael T. Mervis & Robin S. Crosson,
Ninth
Circuit's Acceptance of "Melodic Reduction" May Change Music Infringement
Litigation,
Entertainment Law & Finance, December,
2004
Neil A. Smith, The Grokster
Case: What the Supreme Court Decided and Didn't Decide About
Sony,
March 3, 2006
Nathaniel Bruno, Message in Music
Copyright Disputes: Move Over Juries, L.A. Daily Journal, June 29,
2005
James M. Chadwick & Gary L. Bostwick, Images of Fair Use:
A Fair Use Jury Trial,Communications Lawyer, Fall,
2006
Edwin Komen, Orphan Works: U.S.
Developments, Copyright World, November 2006
Neil A. Smith,
Fox v. Dastar
Redux: Can President Eisenhower's Work as an Independent Contractor Be a Work
For
Hire Under the Copyright Act? 3 New Matter 31
Robert A. Jacobs, Work for Hire
and the Moral Rights Dillema in the European Community: An American
Perspective,
16 B.C. Int'l.& Comp. L.Rev.
1993
Edwin Komen & Matthew Clanton, Into the Honey Trap:
Ninth Circuit Delivers Its Own Copyright Termination,
Copyright
World, July 2006
Robert S. Gerber, Mixing it Up on the
Web: Legal Issues Arising from Internet "Mashups,"
Intellectual Property
& Technology Law Journal, August 2006
Lawrence Iser & James Toma, Battling
Digital Piracy, National Law Journal, January 20, 2003
Mark
D. Litvack, Dealing With
Piracy, Game Developer Magazine, August, 2006
Rebecca
Leaver, Television
Format Rights, Legal500.com., April, 2006
Mark Owen,File
Sharing: The End of the Beginning? Legal500.com, January,
2006
Simon Levine, High
Court Cracks Da Vinci Code Copyright Claim,
World Copyright Law Report
, My 4, 2006
Caroline Turner, Behind
the Headlines of the DaVinci Code Litigation: Inspiration or
Infringement?
Legal500.com, June, 2007
Russell J.
Frackman, Back to the Future:
The Napster Decision Confirms the Applicability of Traditional
Copyright
Principles to the Internet, 2 Sedona Conference Journal 31
(2001)
Henry W. Holmes, Motion
Picture Copyright Issues, State Bar of Wisconsin, 1986
Joseph D. Schleimer, Will File-Sharing Kill the Copyright Industries?West Publishing CLE Video on Demand (2002)
Ian
C. Ballon & Robert Begland, Ninth
Circuit Grokster Case Challenges the Applicability of Traditional
Copyright
Principles to Digital Media and the Internet,Intellectual Property
Today, February, 2004
Ian C. Ballon, Napster
Ruling Clarifies and Expands the Law Governing Third Party Copyright Liability
in Cyberspace,
The E-Commerce Law Report, May, 2001
Ian
C. Ballon, Reconsidering
the Winners and Losers in MGM Studios v. Grokster,
Los Angeles
Lawyer, September, 2005
Joseph D. Schleimer, Electronic
Countermeasures to Copyright Infringement on the Internet: Law and
Technology,
Journal of Internet
Law , November, 2001
Joseph D. Schleimer & Kenneth
D. Freundlich,
Criminal Prosecution
of Online File Sharing,
Journal of
Internet Law, August, 2001
IDEA
SUBMISSION
Susan E. Hollander, Keys to
Protecting Thoughts and Ideas, IP Litigation Practices (Book
Chapter)
Aaron J. Moss, Grosso
v. Miramax, Written By, WGA (May,2005)
THE RIGHT OF PRIVACY
Louise Prince,
Celebrity
and Privacy: Its My Right to Protect My Children, Legal500.com,
January 2007
TALENT
MANAGERS & AGENTS
Edwin F.
McPherson, Double Agent: Is
the Penalty of Declaring a Contract Void Ab Initio Too Harsh for
Managers
Who Procure Employment?Los Angeles Lawyer, May
2007
Martin D. Singer, Regulation of Talent Agents,
Entertainment, Publishing & Arts Handbook
Joseph D. Schleimer, How the Kuehl Act Would
Affect the Legal Regulation of Personal
Managers,
Entertainment Law &
Finance, March, 1999
MUSIC LAW
Simon Levine, Music
Industry Clashes Over Online Royalty Rates, World Copyright Law
Report, March 9, 2006
Edwin F. McPherson, What's In a Name? The
Use, Misuse, and Trademark Protection of Band Names,
Entertainment
& Sports Lawyer, Spring, 2000
Kenneth D. Freundlich, Music
Licensing: New Targets, New Revenue, New Growth,
West
Publishing CLE Video on Demand (2003)
Aydin S. Caginalp, How Will the
New Music Delivery Systems Affect the Industry, The Music Business
(2004)
Robert M. Dudnik, Copyright Infringement,
Musician's Business and Legal Guide (4th Ed.), Prentice Hall
(2007)
Kenneth D.
Freundlich, Negotiation
of Recording and Music Publishing Contracts,
West Publishing CLE
Video on Demand (2004)
Russell J. Frackman, The Chess Catalog
Litigation, Los Angeles Lawyer, April, 1993
Kenneth D.
Freundlich, Who
Needs a Record Company?The Independent Distribution of Music by the Artist
in the Digital Age
West Publishing CLE Video on Demand (2002)
Jay L. Cooper, Music
and Law: The New Dealmakers, Billboard, February 7, 2004
Kenneth D. Freundlich, Advocating
for the Recording Artist in the New Digital Marketplace,
Entertainment Law & Finance, September, 2000
Jay
L. Cooper, Recording
Contract Negotation, Entertainment Law Journal (2001)
Edwin F.
McPherson, Pick me! Pick
me! The New Copyright Lottery, Sports & Entertainment
Lawyer, Summer 2006
Jay L. Cooper, The
Work Made for Hire Conundrum, Talent in the New Millenium (MIDEM,
2001)
Larry J. Blake, Analysis of a
Recording Contract, Musician's Business & Legal Guide (Prentice
Hall)
IMMIGRATION
LAW
Tracy Hrusa, Managed
Migration One Year On: Its Impact on the Entertainment Industry,
Legal500.com, March,
2006
ENTERTAINMENT
CONTRACTS
Rusell J. Frackman, Termination
of Entertainment Contracts in California, 52 U.S.C. L.Rev.
333
Joseph D. Schleimer, Coppola v. Warner
Bros. Verdict: The Impact on Studio/Talent Talks,
Entertainment Law
& Finance, September, 1998
Joseph D. Schleimer, California Court of
Appeal Reverses $20,000,000 Verdict: Understanding
the Coppola v. Warner
Bros. Decision, Entertainment Law & Finance, April,
2001
FILM
FINANCE
Thomas Glen Leo & Gregory Siewitt, Chain of Title Review is Major Hurdle for Film
Investors,
Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 20,
2006
Michael Barnes & P. Kevin Morris, New Securities
Legislation: Financing Low Budget Films, Filmmaker
Magazine
TAXATION
Denise M. Stevens, John
Arao & John C. Beiter,Songwriters Gain
from Change in TaxLaw,
Entertainment Law & Finance, July, 2006
Arnold D. Kassoy, Tax Planning
for Professional Athletes, Practicing Law Institute
Louise
Gordon, Tax
Relief for Film Productions Companies, Legal500.com, October,
2006
GRAPHIC
ARTISTS
Joanne Butler & Charlotte Partridger, Artists'
Resale Rights 2006: Justice for Artists or a Devastating Blow to the
British
Art Industry? Legal500.com, March, 2006
INSURANCE
Peter S. Selvin & Jed
Lowenthal, Liability
Insurance for Copyright Infringement: A Pracitioner's Guide,
Association of Business Trial Lawyer's Report, April, 2007
SPORTS
Brian R. Socolow, Sports Video
Content in the Mobile Age,
Privacy & Data Security Law
Journal, September, 2006
Douglas N. Masters, Negotiating
Sport-Related Brand Integration Deals in a New Media Environment,
Sports Litigation Alert, October, 2006
TRADEMARK & BRANDING
Po Yi, Legal
Perspectives: Branded Entertainment, Delaney Report, February
2006
CELEBRITY
ENDORSEMENTS
Brian R. Socolow, Ringing Endorsements: Legal
Risks, Over Time Magazine, 2005
ESTATE PLANNING
Robert L. Sullivan,
Estate
Planning Issues for Entertainers, Entertainment Law & Finance,
January, 2007
OBSCENITY
LAW
Robert A. Jacobs, Dirty Words,
Dirty Thoughts and Censorship: Obscenity Law and Non-Pictorial Works,
21
S.W.U. L.Rev. 155
Rick Chessen & Christopher Tygh, The FCC's Latest
Indecency Ruling: Wardrobe Malfunctions and Beyond,
ABA Media,
Privacy& DefamationLaw Committee (2006)
Kenneth D. Freundlich, The
New Censorship: The FCC, the Justice Department, and You!
West
Publishing CLE Video on Demand (2004)
MINORS
Daniel K. Stuart, Children as
Chattel: The Disturbing Plight of Child Performers, Beverly Hills Bar Association
(1997)
CELEBRITY
STALKERS
Joseph D. Schleimer, Stalkers,
Embezzler & Extortionists: Protecting the Artist, West
Publishing, CLE Video on Demand (2004)