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Digital Era Causes Shifts in Roles of Record Labels and Music Publishers
September 27, 2007
The digital-music era has resulted in many shifts in the music business. A major one has been the creative and economic repositioning of record labels and music publishers. In the following interview, coordinated by <i>Entertainment Law &amp; Finance</i> Editor-in-Chief <b>Stan Soocher</b>, <b>Keith C. Hauprich</b> and <b>Bob Donnelly</b> discuss this repositioning and related issues from the publisher's and artist attorney's perspectives.
10b5 -1 Plan Abuse
September 27, 2007
Last month, we wrote that the latest hot topic in corporate executive abuses may be manipulation of traders under prearranged Rule 10b5-1. We said that once a determination is made to review the historical operation of a 10b5-1 plan, reviewers should consider as a threshold issue whether they are sufficiently independent from the subject plans and traders to be properly regarded as objective. We continue with a list that describes several steps that could be taken to reveal some of the 10b5-1 plan abuses that commentators speculate may exist.
The Place to Network: Network Your Way to an International Practice
September 26, 2007
In today's Internet age, from strictly a networking standpoint, the world is officially your oyster. Never before has it been so easy for attorneys to communicate with clients and colleagues from all over the world to attract, develop and secure international business.
Eminent Domain
August 29, 2007
In-depth analysis of a key case.
<b><i>Commentary: </b></i>Keep the Core Neutral: ICANN Policy Proposes to Restrict New Domain Names
August 28, 2007
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ('ICANN'), the private California corporation set up by the United States Commerce Department in 1998 to manage and control the Internet's root server, is developing a policy to introduce new generic Top-Level Domains. Unfortunately, the draft policy ignores freedom of expression guarantees, expands the rights of trademark owners on the Internet and sets up an arbitrary and subjective process in which ICANN will decide what ideas may be expressed in Internet domain names ' and by whom.
Bit Parts
August 28, 2007
Book Publishing/Personal Jurisdiction; Copyright Infringement/Preliminary Injuctions; Right-of-Publicity Claims/Insurance; Theatrical Productions/Personal Jurisdiction; Video-Game Statutes/Constitutionality.
Attorney Fees Ruling
August 28, 2007
Copyright Infringement.
Clause & Effect
August 28, 2007
Recording Agreements/Forum-Selection Clause; Royalty Claims/Letter of Inducement; TV Music Scores/Synchhornization Royalties.
Counsel Concerns
August 28, 2007
Disqualification Motion.
Keeping Track of Celebrity Image Use
August 28, 2007
For celebrities, image is everything. For the entertainment lawyers who represent their interests, that means confronting ever more complex efforts to profit from (or poison) a client's fame. Among the talent-side lawyers, there's a small club of firms doing the lion's share of the image work for the big stars.

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