New Developments in Media and Privacy Law 2011
INTRODUCTION On the legislative front in 2011, Texas and the District of Columbia joined the growing list of jurisdictions with anti-SLAPP statutes.[1] Both statues provide heightened protection for speech on matters of public concern, creating expedited motions to test the merits of claims affecting free speech. The D.C. statute has already been applied to dismiss…
The Ongoing Assault on the Right to Photograph/Record in Public
By Mickey H. Osterreicher* Phil Datz, Jim Epstein, Emily Good and Clint Fillinger may not be household names but they are among a growing list of citizens and journalists who have been arrested for doing nothing more than taking pictures or recording video on a public street or during a public meeting. Photographers are never…
What You Thought You Knew About Patent Law and Why That’s Changed: A Guide to Important Provisions in the America Invents Act
By Bruce T. Wieder* I. INTRODUCTION In the past 15 years, many companies that rarely thought about patents have become acutely aware of them – sometimes because they were named as defendants in patent litigations. Media companies have not been exempt from these litigations. Some media companies have begun to develop their own patent portfolios,…
MLRC 2011 Complaint Study
I. INTRODUCTION From 1996 through 1998, MLRC (then LDRC) undertook studies of complaints filed in each of these years. We revived this study for 2001 and 2005, and now again for 2011. MLRC’s Complaint Study differs from the other statistical studies done by MLRC in that the complaint study is the only one that does…
MLRC Bulletin 2011 Issue 3 – MLRC Complaint Study & Report on Significant Developments
Download Publication MLRC COMPLAINT STUDY 2011 Complaint Study 2011By Robert J. Hawley ARTICLES ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS What You Thought You Knew About Patent Law and Why That’s Changed: A Guide to Important Provisions in the America Invents ActBy Bruce T. Wieder The Ongoing Assault on the Right to Photograph/Record in PublicBy Mickey H. Osterreicher NEW…