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Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation Including Unfair Competition, Defamation, Privacy, Seventh Edition, 2006

Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation Including Unfair Competition, Defamation, Privacy, Seventh Edition, 2006

Author: A. David Myers; David Nimmer; Paul Marcus
Publisher: LexisNexis Matthew Bender
ISBN: 9780820562278
Published In: December 2006
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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This uniquely comprehensive casebook covers areas of law fundamental to the practice of Copyright and Entertainment Litigation, including the right of privacy, defamation, right of publicity, and unfair competition. A classic blend of conventional casebook style, questions, problems, and concise text reflecting the authors? expertise in the subject of copyright and entertainment law, this book is adaptable to various teaching methods. Numerous illustrations and reproductions of photos and paintings help bring the concepts to life, adding interest-value to legislative materials. Minimal editing of opinions preserves the flavor of the judicial analysis and demonstrates the interpretive ambiguities and holes in the law. This casebook covers and explores all major changes in this area, including cases such as the Copyright Extension Act opinion (Eldred v. Ashcroft), the peer-to-peer file sharing litigation (MGM v. Grokster), and a host of new and important opinions in the privacy and defamation areas.

The current edition continues the grand tradition of this casebook in that it is replete with wonderful and interesting illustrations, photos, and paintings from the cases themselves. Readers will enjoy seeing depictions including photographs of Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Topper, the Human Cannonball, Elizabeth Taylor, the Three Stooges, and many others.

While there is no separate Teacher’s Manual, this casebook provides frequent cross-references to the leading treatise, Nimmer on Copyright, recently extensively revised. In essence, this authority on copyright law and staple in law libraries serves as the definitive Teachers Manual.

Chapter 1 The Subject Matter of Copyright
Chapter 2 Publication
Chapter 3 Formalities
Chapter 4 The Nature of the Rights Protected by Copyright
Chapter 5 Duration of Copyright
Chapter 6 Transfers of Copyright
Chapter 7 Infringement Actions
Chapter 8 Copyright Remedies
Chapter 9 Federal Preemption of State Law
Chapter 10 Author's Moral Rights
Chapter 11 Unfair Competition
Chapter 12 The Protection of Ideas by Express or Implied Contract
Chapter 13 Defamation
Chapter 14 Right of Privacy - Public Disclosure of Private Facts
Chapter 15 Right of Privacy - False Light
Chapter 16 Right of Publicity

Myers, A. David

Nimmer, David

David Nimmer is Of Counsel to Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, California. Since 1985, he has assumed responsibilities from his father, the late Professor Melville B. Nimmer of UCLA Law School, for updating and revising Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, routinely cited by U.S. and foreign courts at all levels in copyright litigation. Apart from his treatise, Mr. Nimmer authors numerous law review articles on domestic and international copyright issues.

Mr. Nimmer also lectures widely in the copyright area. He has delivered a number of lectures concerning multimedia: at MILIA in Cannes, at Digital World in Los Angeles, and at seminars for the in-house legal staffs of Turner Broadcasting System in Atlanta and Times Mirror in New York and Los Angeles.

In addition to writing and lecturing, Mr. Nimmer represents clients in the entertainment, publishing, and high technology fields. He gave Congressional testimony on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters in 1992, and Parliamentary testimony on behalf of the Combined Newspaper and Magazine Copyright Committee of Australia in Sydney in 1993.

Mr. Nimmer received an A.B. with distinction and honors from Stanford University, and his J.D. at Yale Law School, where he served as Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Marcus, Paul

Paul Marcus is the Haynes Professor of Law at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, and the author of Prosecution and Defense of Criminal Conspiracy Cases (Matthew Bender). Professor Marcus is widely regarded as the leading authority on conspiracy law in the United States. He has lectured throughout the U.S. to judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and law students, and has given talks on conspiracy-related issues in foreign countries as well. Professor Marcus has been quoted frequently in the popular media on criminal justice issues (the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, ABC News, Newsweek, Time.) Criminal Conspiracy Cases has been cited with approval by federal appeals judges in the First, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and DC Circuits, as well as by many federal district courts and state courts. Features include: reproduction of every federal and state conspiracy statute, updated annually; practical discussion of complications arising in multi-defendant trials, such as joinder and severance of defendants and the hearsay exception for co-conspirator declarations; and thorough analysis of the relationship between conspiracy law and other legal issues, including RICO, aiding and abetting liability and sentencing.