Media & Entertainment Law

Mark Your Calendars for AALL's Third Annual Bloggers Get Together!
Come share your ideas and meet the other law librarian bloggers! Open to all bloggers and potential bloggers. Time: 5-6 p.m. Date: Sunday, July 13th Place: TBA Guest Speaker: TBA (we are inviting bloggers from the Portland area) RSVP: Last....

Regulating Interoperability: Lessons from AT&T, Microsoft, and Beyond
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Phil Weiser at the University of Colorado Law School discusses Regulating Interoperability: Lessons from AT&T, Microsoft, and Beyond. ABSTRACT: Antitrust law confronted the challenges of regulating interoperability between platforms and applications in both the AT&T...

Okamoto on Regulating Systemic Moral Hazard
After the Bailout: Regulating Systemic Moral Hazard, by Karl S. Okamoto, Drexel University College of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How do we make our financial world safer? This Article offers a strategy for regulating...

How and should bloggers be credentialed as news gatherers
Sports fans among you may already be following the controversy involving the status of bloggers covering the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, and their ability to enter the team’s locker room after games...

Bloggers have rights
Bloggers have rights, and it’s important for them to know about them. It’s becoming more common for companies to issue cease and desist letters to bloggers who print negative reviews of their products or services...

Who Owns Sports Coverage
The NY Times covers the growing tension between professional sports teams and bloggers.  I covered the issue in a column last summer.

Ticket Scalper
GoTickets Inc. pays $7,500 settlement for selling over priced concert and sports tickets.

NCAA and Ticketmaster
alleging they have a monopoly on college sports events and charge non-refundable fees to enter a lottery for the rights to purchase tickets to the sporting events.