View or download the free 2014 Online Supplement for this product. This uniquely comprehensive casebook, first published in 1971, 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. Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation offers a classic blend of a conventional casebook style, minimal editing of cases, questions, problems and concise text reflecting the authors' expertise in the subject of copyright and entertainment law. Unlike most law school casebooks, Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation includes numerous illustrations and reproductions of photographs and paintings from the cases included in the book. These photographs and paintings help bring the concepts addressed alive for students and add interest-value to the legislative materials presented to them. This new Eighth Edition is completely updated to include cases and discussion of the most current issues and questions in copyright and entertainment law today, including: Fair use Preemption questions "Hot news" misappropriation claims Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress False light privacy Fantasy baseball issues This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.

View or download the free 2014 Online Supplement for this product. This uniquely comprehensive casebook, first published in 1971, 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. Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation offers a classic blend of a conventional casebook style, minimal editing of cases, questions, problems and concise text reflecting the authors' expertise in the subject of copyright and entertainment law. Unlike most law school casebooks, Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation includes numerous illustrations and reproductions of photographs and paintings from the cases included in the book. These photographs and paintings help bring the concepts addressed alive for students and add interest-value to the legislative materials presented to them. This new Eighth Edition is completely updated to include cases and discussion of the most current issues and questions in copyright and entertainment law today, including: Fair use Preemption questions "Hot news" misappropriation claims Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress False light privacy Fantasy baseball issues This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.

Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.

Tracing the emergence of what the media industries today call transmedia, story worlds, and narrative franchises, Legal Stories provides a dual history of copyright law and narrative-based media development between the Copyright Act of 1909 and the Copyright Act of 1976. Drawing on archival material, including legal case files, and employing the principles of actor-network theory, Gregory Steirer demonstrates how the meaning and form of narrative-based property in the twentieth century was integral to the letter and practice of intellectual property law during this time. Steirer’s expansive view of intellectual property law encompasses not only statutes and judicial opinions, but also the everyday practices and productions of authors, editors, fans, and other legal laypersons. The result is a history of the law as improvisatory and accident-prone, taking place as often outside the courtroom as inside, and shaped as much by laypersons as lawyers. Through the examination of influential legal disputes involving early properties such as Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, and Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Steirer provides a ground’s eye view of how copyright law has operated and evolved in practice.