http://www.anelaw.com intellectual property entertainment commercial law Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:17:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The federal Transportation Security Administration withdrew a subpoena intended to force a journalist to reveal his confidential source for an internal security directive, two days after an agent showed up at the journalist’s home demanding the information. The journalist, Chris Elliott, had published an internal document listing heightened security procedures in ... http://www.anelaw.com/2010/01/01/tsa-withdraws-journalist-subpoenas/ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-airliner-attack-tsa-subpoenas,0,3964528.story http://www.anelaw.com/2009/12/31/tsa-backs-off-demand-that-travel-writer-provide-immediate-response-on-leaked-memo/ The Department of Justice has released a brief stating that the Google Book Search Settlement should be rejected by the federal court overseeing its approval. “As presently drafted the proposed settlement does not meet the legal standards this court must apply,” the Department of Justice report concluded. "This court should ... http://www.anelaw.com/2009/09/21/department-of-justice-says-google-book-settlement-must-be-changed/ The United States Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the proposed settlement agreement between Google and the representative publishers and authors which forms the basis of the proposed settlement of the class action suit The Author's Guild v. Google.  This week the Justice Department advised the Court of ... http://www.anelaw.com/2009/07/03/google-settlement-proposal-triggers-antitrust-concerns/ The deadline to Opt-Out is September 4, 2009 (extended from May 5, 2009). The deadline to file a Claim Form for Cash Payments for past use is January 5, 2010.  The deadline for demanding Removal of your work from the Google Book Project is April 5, 2011. Note that the Google Book Settlement is ... http://www.anelaw.com/2009/05/03/google-book-settlement-deadlines/ The effective date of a U.S. copyright registration is the date the U.S. Copyright Office receives all the required elements in acceptable form regardless of how long it then takes to process the application and mail the certificate of registration.  http://www.anelaw.com/2009/05/03/effective-date-of-copyright-registration/ The Authors Guild anounced today the settlement of Authors Guild v. Google.  Posted below (with permission) is the statement released by the Guild's President Roy Blount, Jr.:   A couple months after I became Authors Guild president in 2006, we met with Google to propose a settlement to our class-action lawsuit. The Guild ... http://www.anelaw.com/2008/10/28/authors-guild-settles-with-google/ Copyrights can now be registered electronically with the U.S. Copyright Office using the Office's "eCO" system.  ECo has a lower filing fee ($35 for a basic claim verus $45) and permits claims tracking.  ECO allows registrants to upload deposits in an array of text, video, image and audio file types.  The ... http://www.anelaw.com/2008/10/01/online-copyright-registration-with-eco/ The House of Representatives has passed a good bill that would prevent American courts from enforcing libel judgments obtained in foreign countries if those countries provide less free speech protection than the United States does.  H.R. 6146 provides that "a domestic court shall not recognize or enforce a foreign judgment concerning defamation ... http://www.anelaw.com/2008/09/30/house-passes-libel-tourism-bill/ The New York State Court of Appeals dismissed a libel case against an independent newspaper– in which the plaintiff had already been awarded a substantial damages verdict at trial – because the statements made were merely opinion.  The newspaper printed an editor’s note stating that the plaintiff, Monroe Mann, the town ... http://www.anelaw.com/2008/08/10/newspaper-editorial-is-opinion-not-libel/