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
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