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28 Ent. L. Rep. [1] (2006-2007)

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                                                     June  2006
                                                  Volume 28 Number 1

Washington   Monitor

Congress increases penalties ten-fold for indecent broadcasts

FCC refuses to set aside $550,000 fine penalizing CBS for airing Janet Jackson's bare breast during 2004 Super Bowl

Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act permits songwriters to treat songs as capital assets, so copyright assignments
will be taxed at lower capital gains rates

Take-Two  Interactive and Rockstar Games settle FTC charges they failed to disclose that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
contained nude female characters and sex mini-game

In the News

EMI Music settles New York Attorney General's payola investigation

Recent  Cases

Delaware Supreme  Court affirms dismissal of shareholder derivative suit against Walt Disney Co. complaining about
company's hiring and firing of Michael Ovitz and payment to him of $130 million in severance

Right of publicity claim by recording artist Debra Laws against Sony Music, complaining that Jennifer Lopez's recording and
video All I Have sampled Laws' recording Very Special without Laws' consent, is preempted by federal copyright law, Court
of Appeals affirms

Producer Jean Doumanian  is entitled to edit six Woody Allen movies for network television, despite Allen's objection that
proposed edits would affect films' artistic integrity and entertainment value

Comical references to BUFU in movie How High did not infringe or dilute FUBU clothing trademark

Claim that Michael Chabon's novel Summerland was copied from movie treatment is shown to be fraudulent, because
treatment referred to Palm Pilots repeatedly but was allegedly submitted to Disney almost a year before Palm Pilots were
introduced

Departments

Entertainment Lawyer News:
- Kenneth Suddleson joins L.A. office of Foley & Lardner

In the Law Reviews


Educational Programs Calendar

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