Media & Entertainment Law

Thiede and McGrath on Mass Media, Personality Rights and European Conflict of Laws
Thomas Thiede and Colm P. McGrath have posted Mass Media, Personality Rights and European Conflict of Laws on SSRN. The abstract reads: In this article the authors critically analyse the current approach of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) alongside the proposed alternatives to a unified European conflict of laws rule dealing with the problem [...

Competition Among Mass Media
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maksymilian Kwiek (University of Southampton) addresses Competition Among Mass Media. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates how mass media provide information to readers or viewers who have diverse interests...

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...

Why the media should not put the Tuscon killers picture on the front page
(David Kopel) Because, as Jack Shafer explains on Slate, the killer was seeking publicity. And such publicity encourages copycats, as I detailed in Rocky Mountain News columns in December and April 2007...

Kuipers on Cross-Border Infringement of Personality Rights
Jan-Jaap Kuipers, an Assistant Professor of European Law at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, has written an interesting article on cross-broder infringement of personality rights...

Lipton's Personality Rights Paradigm for Personal Domain Name Disputes
Jacqueline Lipton (Case Western Reserve Law School) has posted Celebrity in Cyberspace: A Personality Rights Paradigm for Personal Domain Name Disputes, forthcoming in the Washington & Lee Law Review, in SSRN...

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

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

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

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.

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