by Gano Lemoine | May 4, 2013 | Copyright, Fair Use, Film Producing, Filmmakers, Life Rights, Music, Music Business, Music Licensing, Music Publishing, Novel Writing, Parody, Producing, Public Domain, Publicity Rights, Screenwriting, Television Production, Trademark, Uncategorized
A recent (March 2013) opinion by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (covering the West Coast and many of Western states) provides an excellent analysis of U.S. copyright law and the fair use defense. In SOFA Entertainment, Inc., v. Dodger Productions, Inc., the...
by Gano Lemoine | Feb 28, 2013 | Copyright, Fair Use, Film Producing, Filmmakers, Life Rights, Privacy Rights, Public Domain, Publicity Rights
I’m proud to have been quoted in the International Business Times regarding Academy Award winning film, “Zero Dark Thirty,” which used a telephone message from a victim of 9/11, seemingly without the consent of the victim’s grieving family....