Media & Entertainment Law

This week on Law and Video podcast.

By Gordon Firemark

This week’s Law and Video podcast is now available at http://www.lawandvideo.com Listen Live Tuesdays at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern, or download and listen at your convenience.This week’s topics:

• City of New York revises permit and insurance requirements for small video productions.
• Credit for video game authorship.
• Use of government forms in instructional videos.
• Former employer’s use of work-product without crediting terminated employee.
• Work-For-Hire when employee’s creative material is outside the course and scope of employment?
• Can a minor and his family avoid or terminate a modeling agent’s contract?
• Is videotape admissible in court if recorded without consent or knowledge of the subject?
• Security/Surveillance camera in the workplace. Is notice to employees and customers required?
• Police officer’s destruction of camera and footage of traffic stop.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Full post as published by Entertainment Law Update on November 20, 2007 (boomark / email).