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Volume 20, Number 1, June 1998
Recent Cases
4 Wesley Snipes' personal manager acted at the
request of and in conjunction with Snipes' talent
agency, and therefore manager did not violate
California law even if manager negotiated movie
deals for Snipes without being licensed to do so,
state Labor Commissioner rules [Full Text]
7 Actors George Wendt and John Ratzenberger are
entitled to a trial in their right of publicity case al-
leging that figures displayed in airport bars depict
them in their roles as Norm and Cliff' in the tele-
vision series Cheers, federal court of appeals
rules, again
8 Federal court rejects Smith-Hemion Productions'
promissory estoppel claim against Michael Jack-
son and alter-ego claims against other members
of Jackson family, in suit to recover damages suf-
fered by Smith-Hemion when NBC canceled Jack-
son family TV special after Michael indicated he
would not appear at taping
8 Artist Faith Ringgold is entitled to trial in copyright
infringement claim against HBO and Black Enter-
tainment Television, on account of the use of a
poster of her artwork as set decoration in an epi-
sode of sitcom Roc; Court of Appeals rules that
use of poster was not de minimis and may not
have been a fair use
10 Fleeting appearance of photographs by Jorge An-
tonio Sandoval in New Line movie Seven was a
fair use, federal District Court rules
110 Oprah Winfrey wins dismissal of suit for defama-
tion and related claims filed by man she called a
liar in response to his assertions they once had a
relationship and used cocaine
11 First Amendment does not bar wrongful death law-
suit by victims' survivors against publisher of hit-
man how-to manual used by murderer, federal ap-
pellate court rules; Supreme Court denies pub-
lisher's request for review
12 NFL salary cap was not circumvented by renegoti-
ated contract between Buffalo Bills and Billy Joe
Herbert or by contract between Kansas City
Chiefs and Elvis Grbac, federal District Court rules
13 Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey did not infringe
copyright to photograph admitted into evidence
during O.J. Simpson murder trial by using photo in
closing arguments, even though they knew that
photo would be televised, federal District Court
rules
13 Jingle-writer loses copyright infringement action
against company that provided music to radio and
TV advertisers, because even though company
did not acquire ownership of copyrights to many
(perhaps any) of writer's jingles under work-made-
for-hire doctrine, writer gave company oral or im-
plied license to use jingles, federal appellate court
rules
14 Mounting of artistic notecards on ceramic tiles
does not infringe artist's exclusive right to create
derivative works, Seventh Circuit Court of Ap-
peals holds in opinion that expressly disagrees
with contrary Ninth Circuit rulings
15 Bob Dylan and Sony Music win dismissal of copy-
right infringement and related claims asserted by
songwriter who claims lyrics from several of his
songs and music from another were copied
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