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20 Ent. & Sports Law. 1 (2002-2003)
Are You Just an Attorney - Or a Trusted Advisor

handle is hein.journals/entspl20 and id is 45 raw text is: A Book Review The Writer's Craft: Black Panthers Like the Godfather Molding Character Not Over Easy A PUBLICATION OF THE ABA FORUM ON THE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTS INDUSTRIES VOLUME 20, NUMBER 4 WINTER 2003 Are You Just an Attorney - Or a Trusted Advisor? DAVID MAISTER, CHARLES GREEN and ROBERT GALFORD et's start with a question:What benefits would you get if your clients trusted you more? Here's our list. The more your clients trust you, the more they will: 1. Reach for your advice 2. Be inclined to accept and act on your recommendations 3. Bring you in on more advanced, complex, strategic issues 4. Treat you as you wish to be treated 5. Respect you 6. Share more information that helps you to help them, and improves the quality of the service you provide 7. Pay your bills without question Continued on page 12 Baseball's Contraction Experience CLARK C. GRIFFITH uring this year's baseball playoff, the Minnesota Twins, my home team, played in the American League Championship Series.Yet, just one year ago, on Nov. 6, 2001, the team nearly went out of existence.The announcement of its imminent demise was made after a major league meeting when the baseball commissioner said that he had been given the authority to contract up to four teams; only Minnesota and Montreal voted against contraction. How close were the Twins from extinction? They were dinosaurs just before the mete- orite hit; it was a matter of seconds. If the commissioner had said that he had been authorized to contract the Montreal Expos and the Twins, and had, in fact, done so, the teams would have sim- ply ceased to exist no matter what decision a court, the labor board or an arbitrator would have made subsequently. It is doubtful that any of those entities had the Continued on page 8 20-Year Copyright Extension Upheld ig entertainment companies were victorious when the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, upheld Congress' 1998 20-year copyright extension.The court in Eldred v.Ashcroft noted that the wisdom of Congress' action and copyright policy decisions were not within its province to second-guess. Federal Judge Orders Verizon to Disclose ID of Subscriber U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ruled that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requires Verizon to provide the name of a KAZAA sub- scriber to the Recording Industry of America (RIAA).The subscriber is alleged- ly using KAZAA to engage in peer-to-peer piracy. Under §512 of the DMCA, a copy- right owner may send a subpoena order- ing a service provider to turn over infor- mation about a subscriber. Verizon challenged the subpoena on the grounds that it was merely a conduit for peer-to-peer users and that they are not hosting the alleged illegal activity. Judge Bates said there was no such shel- ter for copyright infringers to the sub- poena authority of the DMCA. Judge Orders Barry Bond's Ball Split California Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy ruled that both plaintiff and defendant had an equal and undivided interest in Barry Bond's historic 73rd Continued on page 18

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