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Throughout my career, I have routinely included a parental guarantee of the child’s perfo ...

New Copyright Royalty Board rates became effective on February 5, 2019, retroactive to J ...

DMCA takedown notices for copyrighted material on the internet are made under penalty of p ...

On October 11, 2018, the Music Modernization Act became law... The Act enjoined the follow ...

UMG Wins Round 2 Against Grooveshark by Elliot Zimmerman, BCS, PA www.entertainmentlawyer. ...

Are you a potential defendant in a mass copyright infringement action? Record and film co ...

Collage is considered fair use, and therefore not subject to copyright law. The doctrine o ...

Elliot Zimmerman discusses IP issues facing content creators, owners, and publishers. by ...

It's no secret that all forms of entertainment have embraced and migrated to the web. Why? ...

NBC Miami reports that our client Luther Campbell (2 Live Crew) may run for Mayor of Miami ...

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Pembroke Pines, FL. In Katherine Evans v. Peter Bayer, US District Court for the Southern ...

Toronto Radio NewsTalk 1010 host Jamie Hofing interviewed Elliot Zimmerman on Dec. 16, 200 ...

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, October 29, 2009, in Lake vs. City of Phoenix ...

On August 12, 2009, just one day after Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled against RealNetworks ...

On August 11, 2009, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled against RealNetworks, Inc. and RealNetW ...

In Cadkin v. Loose, 569 F.3d 1142 (9th Cir. 2009), the Ninth Circuit held that a voluntar ...

In the retrial of RIAA v. Thomas, the Defendant was found guilty of willful infringement o ...

On June 1, 2009, Psion stated that it and Intel had "settled the trademark cancellation an ...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Rescuecom v. Google 06-4881-cv ruled on April 3, 20 ...

On February 25, 2009, Intel filed suit in the Northern District of California for a declar ...

On April 28, 2008, in Atlantic Recording Corp. et al. v. Howell (U.S. District Court, Ariz ...

By Kathleen Fitzgerald, SPLC staff writer at 2008 Student Press Law Center February 4, 200 ...

Paramount Pictures Corp. and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., makers of the animated film "B ...

When company data is stolen or maliciously destroyed, the modern cause of action is the fe ...

On June 18, 2007, Florida joined 16 other states in passing a truth in music advertising l ...

Federal law provides that no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be ...

On June 27, 2007 in a copyright infringement lawsuit, Columbia Pictures Industries v. Bunn ...

The "Son of Sam" Law in Florida is codified at F.S. 944.512. In Rolling v. State ex rel. ...

EMI will be offering, at a greater price, higher quality digital music downloads without d ...

Click here to read the decision of the National Arbitration Forum in Homer TLC, Inc. v. Gr ...

DAXING, China - Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run i ...

In the summer of 2006, FL Gov. Jeb Bush (R) signed legislation that replaced the Sunshine ...

Click here for a pdf file containing Florida’s new Registration and Protection of Trademar ...

London. Apple Computer won its courtroom battle against the Beatles on May 8, 2006 when Mr ...

On January 5, 2006, President Bush signed into law: H.R. 3402, the "Violence Against Wo ...

Today the Supreme Court, in MGM v. Grokster, unanimously overturned a ruling that prevente ...

Governor Jeb Bush has signed HB1129 into law. This new law changes the term "television s ...

On April 19, 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Family Entertainment and C ...

Warner Brothers' portrayal of the swordboat captain "Billy" Tyne in the movie, The Perfect ...

Jon Johansen aka DVD-Jon, who was acquitted in 2003 for developing and distributing DVD co ...

Agence France Presse filed suit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the District ...

This week an open-source programmer, Harald Welte, told Motorola and 12 other companies at ...

On February 11, 2005, Florida's 5th District Court of Appeals upheld a trial court's decis ...

Florida Senate Bill 750, submitted by State Senator Baker, removes talent agencies from DB ...

Two men plead guilty to violating copyrights on peer-to-peer networks, marking the first f ...

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today that will stop entertainment c ...

Jathan Desir, 26, of Iowa City, pled guilty on 12/22/04 to copyright infringement and cons ...

On December 10, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court decided it will hear MGM's appeal in MGM Stud ...

In Barrett v. Rosenthal, California Supreme Court , the Supreme Court of California is pre ...

Judge William Alsup, in Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation et al. v. Does 1-12, Case N ...

The U.S. has been a party to the Madrid System, which allows international registration of ...

Streamcast and Grokster filed a joint brief urging the Supreme Court to let the 9th Circui ...

Jeremy Jaynes, 30, and his sister Jessica DeGroot, 28, both of the Raleigh, North Carolina ...

The Motion Picture Industry of America is getting to ready to launch a series of copyright ...

Article discussing alternative paradigms for future P2P file sharing. Read the article her ...

A district court in eastern Pennsylvania has issued an order forcing ISPs to first send th ...

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announced on October 18, 2004. t ...

In December, 2003, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned an ea ...

In the first case filed against alleged spyware scammers, the FTC charged Seismic Entertai ...

Blizzard, creator and seller of such popular computer games as "StarCraft," "StarCraft: Br ...

The Recording Industry Association of America ("RIAA") has filed yet another 762 P2P file ...

U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. dismissed a federal indictment of Jean Martignon, who ...

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (TN) held digital sampling of a sound recording, no matte ...

8.26.04. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed an additional 744 ...

FBI agents raided residences throughout the USA yesterday which were hubs for the "Undergr ...

By Elliot Zimmerman, Attorney At Law, Fort Lauderdale, FLThe GNU (“Generally Not Unix”) Ge ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in MGM v. Grokster et al. declares defendants ...

Click Here for RIAA's Form Doe Settlement Agreement in a Music File Sharing Direct Copyrig ...

Procedural and Evidentiary Considerations in Music File Sharing Direct Copyright Infringem ...

Wired reports that U.S. representatives are worried that the Digital Millenium Copyright A ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Case No. 03-15313, rules that DirecTV cann ...

On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed bill (SB 2574) giving the attor ...

On Friday, March 13, 2004, the FBI requested the FCC to force ISPs, broadband and dsl prov ...

CNN reports that AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and Earthlink have joined forces and filed 6 federa ...

Last month, a federal trial court in Philadelphia ruled that the Recording Industry Associ ...

Thomson and Fraunhofer, the companies that license and own the patents to MP3 digital musi ...

A California appeals court today overturned as unconstitutional a 1999 trade secret injunc ...

In an effort to resolve the music file sharing dilemma, the EFF is urging the music indust ...

DJ Danger Mouse's "Grey Tuesday," which is an album that contains massive sampled musical ...

On February 19, 2004, a San Francisco federal court granted MGM''s motion for a preliminar ...

Is parody a viable defense to claimed copyright infringement of a purely musical compositi ...

According to Cal. Lab. Code §2855, "a contract to render personal service...may not be enf ...

ELLISON v. AOL, No. 02-55797 (9th Cir. February 10, 2004)Summary judgment to Defendant, in ...

The DMCA limits liability of web site owners who are unaware that infringing material is c ...

Fred Von Lohmann, Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), was q ...

It is technically possible for hackers to feign an IP address. A while back, Intel branded ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and 21 other consumer and privacy groups today si ...

Rock veterans Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno are launching a provocative new musicians' allia ...

The Recording Industry Association of America launched its largest wave of file-swapping l ...

A group of technology experts issued a statement to the U.S. Congress o­n 1.13.04 expressi ...

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Aimster's appeal of the adverse decision at 334 F.3d 643, 6- ...

By Elliot M. Zimmerman Some view the internet as an abandoned warehouse filled with free ...

The enrolled (final) text of S. 877 as it was passed by the Senate o­n November 25, 2003, ...

An appeals court in Oslo, Norway, upheld Jon Lech Johansen's earlier acquittal o­n all cou ...

Read the article here. See 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(2) et seq. to learn how an ISP may insulate i ...

The recording industry can't force Internet providers to identify music downloaders, a fed ...

Downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, although uplo ...

Online music piracy isn't likely to vanish soon, but the rise of paid o­nline services and ...

On 11/25/03, the Senate passed the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, which will preempt state law when ...