Corporate & Securities Law

Something You Ought To Know if You Teach a Class that Sounds "Sexy"
If you teach a class like Mass Media Law, or Entertainment Law, or Sports Law that sounds "sexy" or "fun" to students, you owe it to the students and yourself to go in the first day of class and dramatically lower students' expectations before the class begins...

Update On Franklin, Anderson & Lidsky, Mass Media Law Due Out Soon
From Professor David Anderson, co-author of Franklin, Anderson & Lidsky on Mass Media Law: The 2009 Supplement to Franklin, Anderson, & Lidsky, Mass Media Law, will be sent no later than July 10 to all law teachers known to Foundation...

New Staff At the FCC Media Bureau, Wireline Competition Bureau
From the FCC, announcement of new staff: Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced senior staff in the Media Bureau, Enforcement Bureau, and Wireline Competition Bureau including: Media Bureau Chief William Lake and Wireline Competition Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett...

The Mass Media and Images of Terrorism
John Tehranian, Chapman University School of Law, has published "The Last Minstrel Show? Racial Profiling, the War on Terrorism and the Mass Media, in volume 41 of the Connecticut Law Review...

Competition Bureau Warns CRTC Against New Media Intervention
The Canadian Competition Bureau has waded into the CRTC's new media regulation debate with a submission that pretty clearly sides with a no-intervention approach.  While couched in language that gives the CRTC some flexibility, the Bureau is at pains to note that no intervention may be needed, that regulation carries a significant cost, and that shifts in the marketplace from traditional media to new media are not reason enough to regulate...

2nd Annual Digital Media and Learning Competition
Last week, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, long-time supporter of CC, announced the second annual Digital Media and Learning Competition. The 2008 competition is a collaborative result of the MacArthur Foundation, the University of California, Irvine, Duke University, and HASTAC, a virtual and voluntary network of educators and innovators committed to improving [...

Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.

Nielsen Media Challenged
TV ratings company to pay undisclosed settlement in antitrust lawsuit.

Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.

Wireless Entertainment
Kangaroo Media pays Immersion Entertainment $2 million patent infringement settlement.