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In this Issue:


Volume 22, Number 1, June 2000


Legal Affairs


4 Entertaining New Options in the Fight
   Against Cybersquatters: Choosing Between
   Internet Administrative Proceedings and
   Federal Court Lawsuits, by Matt Railo

            Washington Monitor

8, Major   record   companies   settle  FTC
   proceedings by agreeing to consent orders
   that require them to drop Minimum Advertised
   Price   provisions  of their cooperative
   advertising programs

9 FCC approves Viacom's acquisition of CBS,
   but requires Viacom to comply with Dual
   Network Rule, National Television Ownership
   Rule, Radio-TV Cross-Ownership Rule

10 FCC  adopts new   Equal Employment
   Opportunity Rules in response to 1998 court
   ruling that old rules were unconstitutional

               Recent Cases

11 Islamic technical consultant was not co-author
   of movie Malcolm X, but he asserted valid
   claims for value of his services, and may even
   be entitled to recover for Warner Bros.' failure
   to give him screenwriting credit, federal
   appellate court decides

12 Federal District Court dismisses right of
   publicity and other claims asserted by heirs of
   Temptations against mini-series producers,
   but allows defamation and false light privacy
   claim of Temptation's first agent to proceed


13 Disney agrees to change Go Network logo
   and pay $21.5 million to settle trademark
   infringement suit filed by GoTo.com, after
   federal appellate court affirmed preliminary
   injunction requiring Disney to stop using logo
   which was remarkably similar to GoTo's

13 Movie studios win preliminary injunction
   barring website operators from distributing
   software that permits users to decrypt and
   copy movie DVDs

14 Connectix did not infringe Sony's PlayStation
   copyright in the  process  of creating
   Connectix's Virtual Play Station software;
   copying for purpose of reverse engineering is
   fair use, federal Court of Appeals rules

15 Product   designs  are  protectible  as
   unregistered trade dress only if they have
   acquired secondary meaning, U.S. Supreme
   Court holds

15 Pennsylvania ordinance  requiring  erotic
   dancers to wear pasties and G-strings is
   constitutional, U.S. Supreme Court rules

16 Because 1963 recording agreement was silent
   about record company's right to issue
   synchronization licenses, recording artists are
   entitled to offer evidence of industry custom
   and practice supporting their claim that synch
   licenses could be issued only with their
   participation, New York appellate court rules


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