Institute Faculty Activities 05-06

MAY 2006

• Broadcast Technology as Diversity Opportunity: Exchanging Market Power for Multiplexed Signal Set-Asides, 59 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS LAW JOURNAL (2006)
• Presenter, Comparative Telecommunications Law and Policy Conference, Cambridge University
  

• COPYRIGHT LAW, 3rd edition (Carolina Academic Press, 2006)
• TRADEMARK LAW, 3rd edition (Carolina Academic Press, 2006)
• Panelist, "The Legal Battle Lines Surrounding Digital Libraries," It's a Wrap: Cutting Edge Issues in Entertainment Litigation, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Los Angeles

MARCH/APRIL 2006

• "Re-imagining Legal Education: Popular Representations of the American Law Professor, 1970-1980," Law, Culture and Humanities Conference, Syracuse
• Book Review, OBJECTION! HOW HIGH-PRICED DEFENSE ATTORNEYS, CELEBRITY DEFENDANTS, AND A 24/7 MEDIA HAVE HIJACKED OUR CRIMINAL DEFENSE SYSTEM (N. Grace and D. Clehane; Hyperion, 2005), 36 TELEVISION QUARTERLY 75 (2005)

• Quoted regarding entertainment law curricula, The National Jurist (February 2006)
• Interviewed (along with Adjunct Professor Gary Bostwick and others) regarding "Sunshine Week: Access to (or lack of) Information - Why public information is being kept secret," "The Lawyer's Guild," KPFK
  

• Quoted regarding entertainment law curricula, The National Jurist (February 2006)

• Speaker, "Entertainment, Technology and the Future of Copyright," Los Angeles Copyright Society

FEBRUARY 2006

• Panelist, "Intellectual Property: International Issues for Corporate and Outside Counsel," Substantive Legal Issues and Approaches to the Practice of Law, State Bar of California Section Education Institute, Santa Monica

• Speaker, "Sending Central Hudson Down the River: What Abandoning the 'Commercial Speech' Test Would Mean for Advertising and Right of Publicity Law," Los Angeles Copyright Society meeting, Santa Monica

• Use of Loan-Out Corporations in the Entertainment Industry, ANDREWS ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY LITIGATION REPORTER (with Southwestern student Z. Hamzeh; January 11, 2006)
• Keynote Speaker, "The Demise of Record Companies?" 2006 Music Law Conference, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida
  
• Lecturer, Nuts and Bolts of Intellectual Property Law, Continuing Education of the Bar, Los Angeles, San Diego and Anaheim
  
• Panel Moderator, "To Clear or Not to Clear: Product Uses in Film and Television," Brave New World: Representing Clients in an Evolving and Regulated Environment, Biederman Institute and the Media Law Resource Center
  

• Presenter and Co-chair, "'LexisNexis' Copyright - From Traditional Concepts to the Digital Age," Pace University, New York City
• Speaker, "Entertainment Law Year in Review," Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Los Angeles
• Invited Speaker, "Entertainment, Technology and the Academy's Role in IP Policy-Making," Annual Thomas McCarthy Distinguished Scholar Lecture, McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of San Francisco School of Law
  
• Speaker, "The Global Copyright Protection System," 2005 Entertainment Law Institute, Texas State Bar CLE, Austin, Texas
  
• Panel Moderator, "Repatriating Royalties From Abroad," Entertainment Without Borders: Practicing Law in a Global Environment, Biederman Institute and Beverly Hills Bar Association
  
• Panelist, "Copyright and Idea Protection for Filmmakers," Film and Media Business Seminar, California Lawyers for the Arts, Los Angeles

JANUARY 2006

• "What's Really Going on in the Judith Miller Case?" Commentary Series, Fulton County Daily Report (American Lawyer Media, October 2005)
  
• "Challenge to Military Recruiters Raises Key First Amendment Issue," Commentary Series, Fulton County Daily Report (American Lawyer Media, December 2005)
  

• NEWSGATHERING AND THE LAW, 3rd ed. (LexisNexis, 2005)

OCTOBER 2005

• Featured Speaker, "Legal Foundations of Media Ownership," Media Ownership Conference, Center for Film, Television, and New Media, University of California, Santa Barbara
  

• Speaker, "Defenses to Third-Party Liability," Third-Party Liability in Intellectual Property Conference, Santa Clara University Law School

SEPTEMBER 2005

• Interviewed regarding the deaccessioning of objects from the Thomas Paine National Historical Association and the standards for such activity, New York Times

AUGUST 2005

• From Must-See-TV to Branded Counter-Programming: Syndicating 'Seinfeld' in MASTER OF ITS DOMAIN: REVISITING SEINFELD (Continuum, 2005) (with Mark C. Rogers and Jimmie L. Reeves)
• From Scarcity to Market Power Quid Pro Quo: Toward a Workable Right of Access in U.S. Media in MEDIA OWNERSHIP: RESEARCH AND REGULATION (Hampton Press, 2005)
• Surviving the Hit: HBO's Brand Equity after 'The Sopranos' in READING THE SOPRANOS: CAN THIS BE THE END OF TONY SOPRANO? (I.B. Taurus, 2005) (with Mark C. Rogers and Jimmie L. Reeves)
  

• Forty Years After New York Times v. Sullivan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 83 OREGON LAW REVIEW 1203 (Winter 2004)
  

• ENTERTAINMENT LAW: LEGAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS PRACTICES, 2nd ed., 5 vols. (Thomson/West, 2005) (with P. Acton, T. Selz and M. Simensky)
• NEWSGATHERING AND THE LAW, 3rd ed. (Matthew Bender, 2005) (with C. Dienes and L. Levine)

ABA - American Bar Association
AALS - Association of American Law Schools
LACBA - Los Angeles County Bar Association
NALP - National Association for Law Placement