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Volume 23, Number 1, June 2001


In the News


4   Court of Appeals vacates preliminary injunction barring
    publication of The Wind Done Gone in infringement
    action by owner of copyright to Gone with the Wind

4   Writers Guild of America ratifies Minimum  Basic
    Agreement with Alliance of Motion Picture and Television
    Producers and television networks

5   NFL and NFL Players Association agree to extend
    Collective Bargaining Agreement

              Washington Monitor

6   FTC follow-up report on violent entertainment notes that
    movie and electronic game industries have improved
    advertising practices, but says that music industry has
    not responded to earlier FTC report or implemented
    reforms announced by RIAA

7   Immigration and Naturalization Service offers faster
    processing of visa applications for entertainers and
    athletes

7   Digital Audio Recording royalty proceeding was much
    ado about very little... measured in dollars

          International Developments

9   British Court of Appeal affirms Bruce Springsteen victory
    in copyright infringement suit against British record
    company that sold unlicensed CDs of early Springsteen
    recordings; court rejects argument that Springsteen failed
    to prove his ownership of copyrights in manner required
    by British law

                  Recent Cases

11 Payments made in 1994 by Cleveland Indians to former
    players, in settlement of Player Association collusion
    claims, were wages for which Social Security and
    Federal Unemployment taxes were payable at 1994
    rates, even though payments were backpay awards for
    1986 and 1987 when collusion occurred and taxes were
    lower, United States Supreme Court holds


12 Sonny Bono Copyright Term    Extension Act is
    constitutional, federal Appeals Court affirms

13 Steppenwolf's original bass player Nick St. Nicholas is
    not barred by contract or Lanham Act from truthfully
    referring to himself as formerly of Steppenwolf in
    promotional materials for new band, appellate court rules

13 Federal court dismisses defamation and tortious
    interference claims by children's book author Nancy
    Stouffer against Harry Potter books' author, publisher
    and movie producer, but court declines to dismiss false
    designation, unfair competition and dilution claims

14 Animation producer DIC Entertainment committed unfair
    labor practice by refusing to bargain with IATSE, federal
    appellate court affirms

15 Creator of She's Josie comic strip and characters loses
    ownership claim against Archie Comics; federal District
    Court holds that claim arises under Copyright Act and is
    barred by three-year statute of limitations and equitable
    estoppel

15 Illinois Appellate Court vacates judgment enforcing
    arbitration won by concert promoter against rap group
    Mobb Deep, because arbitration took place in Illinois
    though parties' agreement provided for arbitration in New
    York City

16 FCC's revised Equal Employment Opportunity rule is still
    unconstitutional, federal appellate court rules

17 Possession of Howdy Doody puppet is awarded to
    Detroit Institute of Arts, rather than to puppeteer's
    executor who wanted to sell it, because Institute was
    third-party beneficiary of agreement between NBC and
    puppeteer

17 Court refuses to dismiss securities law and other claims
    alleged by NFL's Ike Hilliard and Fred Taylor against their
    former sports agents

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