Lindey on Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts, 3d

Lindey on Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts is an unparalleled reference and practical resource for entertainment lawyers. A wealth of forms and agreements for transactions involving traditional and new media (music, film, sound recordings, television, photographs, software, and others) enable you to meet the challenges of a legally complex entertainment field. Updates address topics such as:

• Fair use

• Duration of copyright

• Copyrighted works posted to Twitter

• Marks consisting of domain names

• Trade dress and functionality

• Unfair and false advertising

• Regulation of nonobscene offensive content

• The Visual Artists Rights Act

The set includes citations to state and federal statutes, rules, and caselaw, and offers up-to-date analysis of legal developments in substantive areas of law, along with detailed discussion of significant cases involving:

• Digital media and file sharing

• False advertising

• Interaction between attribution, trademark law, and copyright law

• Music and sound recording sampling

• Digital downloads and performance rights