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Carys J. Craig, Osgoode Hall Law School, is publishing Critical Copyright Law and the Politics of 'IP', in Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory (Emilios Christodoulidis, Ruth Dukes & Marco Goldoni, eds., Edward Elgar Press, forthcoming 2019). Here is the ... Read More

Via Bloomberg News: a new Belarusian regulation now requires people to verify their identities before they can post comments on Internet sites. The rule takes effect December 1, 2018. More here. The country has a history of censorship regarding the ... Read More

Jeremy N. Sheff, St. John's University School of Law, is publishing Philosophical Approaches to Intellectual Property Law Scholarship in Handbook on Intellectual Property Research (Irene Calboli & Maria Lillà Montagnani, eds., Oxford University Press) (Forthcoming). Here is the abstract. Intellectual ... Read More

For winter sport enthusiasts and hikers alike, a goal only a few accomplish, involves the will, training and drive to reach the South Pole. This beautiful but strenuous 700-plus mile journey through white-out conditions, limited resources and pulling one’s own weight in supplies to survive, is a feat. This winter, ... Read More

This post is authored by Fox Rothschild partner Christopher P. Beall: The much ballyhooed case involving copyright and trademark claims against the producers of the Netflix television series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina reportedly has ended, with news media reporting – based on a statement from counsel for the Satanic Temple ... Read More

From the mailbox: The UMass Law Review has issued the following call for papers. Download the call in PDF here, and please share it with any interested scholarly communities. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LAW REVIEW CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS ... Read More

By Louise Carron. On October 25, 2018, Christie’s auction house sold Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, a painting made by Obvious, a collective of French artists, for $432,500, including buyer’s premium. The catch? This was the first sale of a painting generated throughArtificial Intelligence (“AI”). ... Read More

By Leslie Berman Edited by Elissa D. Hecker GENERAL NEWS Despite Evidence on Khashoggi, Trump Sticks With the Crown Prince. Why? Evidence pointing to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, de facto leader of the Saudi kingdom, implicates him in the brutal killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. However, ... Read More

MILTON’S PARADISE ROYALTIES LOST Victor Bohnam Carter's Authors by Profession, tells the sad story of John Milton, blind, deprived of his pension and suffering from financial hardships, signing a hellish publishing contract for his epic poem, Paradise Lost. "The agreement was dated April 27, 1667, and provided that Milton receive £5 for the first ... Read More

As best we can tell from the outside looking in, this chart has the dates for key events in the critical path to launch for the Mechanical Licensing Collective as required by the Music Modernization Act.  We have called the chart the “Countdown to Modernity.” Recall that the Register of Copyrights ... Read More

54427908Cody Lundin’s lawsuit against Discovery for allegedly defaming Lundin in its reality series “Dual Survival” was voted off the island earlier this month when a district court in Arizona granted Discovery’s motion for summary judgment.  Lundin’s claims arose from an episode titled “Journey’s End to a New Beginning” which depicted ... Read More

Yishai Blank, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law, is publishing City Speech in volume 54 of the Harv. C.R.-C.L. Rev. Here is the abstract. Cities speak. A rich array of expressive activities, city speech, surrounds us. Cities topple confederate ... Read More

The latest issue of Music & Copyright is now available for subscribers to download. Here are some of the highlights. Live music aims for richer, deeper audience involvement Live music is moving beyond mere artist performances as operators look to lean on technologies that make concert- and festival-going way more ... Read More

Rebecca Green, William & Mary Law School, is publishing Counterfeit Campaign Speech at 70 Hastings L.J. 3 (2018). Here is the abstract. We are entering an era in which computers can produce highly-sophisticated fakes of people doing and saying things ... Read More

By Nick Crudele Edited by Elissa D. Hecker General News Trump Hopes to Ease Sentencing Laws President Trump supported a substantial revision of the nation's prison and sentencing laws, potentially opening a path to enacting the most significant changes to the criminal justice system in a generation. The bipartisan legislative ... Read More

As best we can tell from the outside looking in, this chart has the dates for key events in the critical path to launch for the Mechancial Licesing Collective as required by the Music Modernization Act.  We have called the chart the “Countdown to Modernity.” This chart is a work ... Read More

Stan Lee, Marvel Comics’ Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95 — “I guess one person can make a difference … ’nuff said.” Walt Whitman Championed Democracy and Fought for Copyright – Part I — David Newhoff shares a wonderful and well-researched look at the American poet’s views on literary property and push ... Read More

According to a team of long-time tech reporters in the New York Times (see Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis): [Apple CEO Tim] Cook’s criticisms [of Facebook’s well known intrusive data harvesting for its addiction machine] infuriated Mr. Zuckerberg [aka the boy who wouldn’t grow up], who ... Read More

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The Latest episode of my Entertainment Law podcast, Entertainment Law Update, is now available for your enjoyment. Listen here, or subscribe and download in your favorite podcast listening app.  Show notes are located at http://entertainmentlawupdate.com/103. Here's what we talked about.. 9th CIRC. DENIES CBS A REHEARING in Pre ‘72 Recordings Case AMERICAN ... Read More

The results of the  2018 general election are in the books for 318 contested races. A total of 2,578,358 Colorado voters returned ballots (813,079 Republicans, 848,493 Democrats and 877,066 Unaffiliated). We want to take a moment to give you a brief update on where things stand now, and what it ... Read More

“[A]s you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you – so don’t play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr – accept the fact that you’re a criminal & be prepared to act like one.” Hakim Bey from “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic ... Read More

Tamás Szabados, Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Private International Law and European Economic Law, is publishing Conflicts Between Fundamental Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union: A Comparison With the ... Read More

This post is authored by Fox Rothschild partner Christopher P. Beall: Sabrina Spellman, she of the twitchy, witchy Archie Horror comic world in the Netflix reboot The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, released last month with two 10-episode seasons, already has her hands full, what with teen angst, lust, occult powers, and ... Read More

Google’s European charm offensive on “Article 13” has come to Canada in search of earned media.  They got it last night on a previously-credible news show called The Agenda in the “Struggling Artists and Copyright Rules” episode.  (For readers outside of Canada, the Agenda is one of the top news ... Read More

Christophe Geiger, Giancarlo Frosio, and Oleksandr Bulayenko, all of the University of Strasbourg, CEIPI, have published The EU Commission’s Proposal to Reform Copyright Limitations: A Good but Far Too Timid Step in the Right Direction at 40 European Intellectual Property ... Read More

By Eric Lanter Edited By Elissa D. Hecker GENERAL NEWS America Votes in the Midterms The Democrats secured the House of Representatives and the Republicans increased their majority in the Senate, but there were nuances and there remain elections to be called. In the Senate, Democrat incumbents Claire McCaskill and ... Read More

The following case selection first appeared in this week's Center for Art Law newsletter: Pumpkin Season. The Gulbenkian family, one of the biggest names in the art market, is currently being sued before the High Court in London over the claim that it received almost $1.4 million for a Yayoi ... Read More

A recent Rhode Island case illustrates the need to carefully exercise any power of appointment retained by a grantor over a trust.  Jaffe v. Pournaras, 178 A.3d 978 (2/23/18). In this case, the Grantor had created an irrevocable trust in 2003, naming his son as the Trustee.  Under the terms ... Read More

You might have heard before that the sins of the father shall be visited upon the sons.  This was certainly the case in a decision recently handed down by the Wyoming Supreme Court.   In E.G.W. v. First Federal Savings Bank of Wyoming, 413 P.3d 106 (3/15/18), the Court upheld and ... Read More