News & Updates

New Book Announcement: Digital Media Law

I'm pleased to announce my new book Digital Media Law: A Practical Guide for the Media and Entertainment Industries, due out this October from Routledge. If you teach media law, or are simply looking for a resource that offers a succinct look at the legal issues confronted by professionals in traditional and digital media, then I encourage you to give it a look. It's aimed at communications and journalism students and practicing professionals in those industries, but the book is suitable for...

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Media Law Hat Trick

I'll be teaching media law again this summer at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law's recently rekindled Intellectual Property Summer Institute. The program was a longtime in-person summer staple of the law school that fell to the wayside about a decade or so ago. Under the leadership of Dean Megan Carpenter and IP Center executive director Micky Minhas, the program was rebooted in 2020 in an on-line only format, as a way to engage students whose summer opportunities were quashed due to COVID....

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I’m Teaching Media Law Again This Summer

I'll be teaching my short (6 week; 2 credit) course in media law again this year as part of the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law's Intellectual Property Summer Institute. Last summer I taught a short (6 week; 2 credit) remote course in media law as part of the reboot of University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law's Intellectual Property Summer Institute. Affectionately known as "IPSI" by us UNH alums, last year marked the return of the program, albeit in...

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New Book on Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century

I am pleased to announce the upcoming release of The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century, to which I am honored to have been asked to contribute an essay. Edited by Professor Michelle Bogre, Esq., of the Parsons School of Design, and noted copyright lawyer Nancy Wolff of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, the book features the basics of copyright law and a series of essays from academics and practitioners reflecting a diverse range of perspectives on how...

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Using Image and Videos in Your Planetarium…Legally

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting another seminar to the Pacific Planetarium Association (PPA) on legal issues surrounding the use of images and video footage in planetarium shows and exhibits. The session was something of a follow-up to my presentation last year on using music in the planetarium. The recording of the presentation is now available on YouTube. While you're there (and if you work in a planetarium or around the industry) be sure to check out the full library of...

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I’m Speaking at the 2020 Midwest IP Institute

I will be speaking at the 2020 Midwest IP Institute on October 1 from 4:15 to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. Specifically, I'll be on a panel titled Copyright Enforcement Entities v. The Internet — Today's Practices and Policy Attitudes and What They Mean for Your Clients, that will look at the current state of enforcement practices in the visual arts industry. Moderated by Minneapolis intellectual property attorney Michael Lafeber, I'll be joined by panelists Michael Masterson, the CEO of Permission...

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I’m Teaching Media Law at UNH This Summer

I'll be teaching a short (6 week; 2 credit) remote course in media law this summer as part of the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law's Intellectual Property Summer Institute. Affectionately known as "IPSI" by us UNH alums, this year's all-remote-taught institute marks the return of a longtime summer fixture at UNH that brings students together with professionals and expert academics from around the world for short, focused courses on various aspects of intellectual...

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Using Music in Your Planetarium…Legally

On July 28 at 3:30pm PDT (22:30 UTC), I'll be presenting a free "Zoominar" (a webinar, using Zoom) sponsored by the Pacific Planetarium Association entitled Using Music in Your Planetarium...Legally. Here's the official description: Many planetarians ignore the copyright issues surrounding the use of commercially available music in the planetarium, while others, fearing the unknown, simply avoid using music in their productions. Still others believe, erroneously, that so long as a facility is...

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I Was on a Podcast About…Quilting?

I recently had the privilege of being featured on Dr. Elizabeth Townsend-Gard's research podcast Just Wanna' Quilt. Dr. Townsend-Gard is a law professor at Tulane where she heads up the Copyright Research Labs. The quilting podcast is one of the Lab's projects, focused on building an "army" of quilters to talk about the love of their craft, as well as the copyright (and other legal issues) confronted by the quilting community. Fortunately — for me, Dr. Townsend-Gard, and the audience...

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