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Net Neutrality And The European Union’S Copyright Directive For The Digital Single Market, Nathan Guzé
Net Neutrality And The European Union’S Copyright Directive For The Digital Single Market, Nathan Guzé
Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review
The European Union’s Copyright Directive for the Digital Single Market should cause concern for net neutrality advocates. This article casts a critical gaze at Article 17 (previously Article 13) of this new Directive. It chronicles the Directive’s life: starting as a reaction to the perceived inadequate copyright protections provided by the previous Information Society Copyright Directive through to its then-present status circa May 2019. Next, net neutrality is defined, and its benefits and detriments are weighed to ultimately determine the policy is desirable. Article 17’s call for eliminating safe-harbor provisions for content hosts and its call for content filters signal …
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Defining Unreasonable Radius Clauses For American Music Festivals, Trevor Lane
Defining Unreasonable Radius Clauses For American Music Festivals, Trevor Lane
Seattle University Law Review
Since 1969, the music festival remains a staple of American musical culture, and in order to meet consumer demands, today’s music festival promoters rely on radius clauses ancillary to the performance agreements that they use with artists. These radius clauses limit artists’ ability to perform at other music festivals and concerts within a specified temporal and geographic radius of the contracted music festival. Beginning in 2010, legal challenges have alleged that broadly defined radius clauses used by music festival promoters violate Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. This Note contends that radius clauses which limit artists from performing beyond …
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Scènes À Faire In Music: How An Old Defense Is Maturing, And How It Can Be Improved, Torrean Edwards
Scènes À Faire In Music: How An Old Defense Is Maturing, And How It Can Be Improved, Torrean Edwards
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
First, this Comment will provide background on the test for copyright infringement used by the Fourth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits. Second, the Comment will address what scènes à faire is and how recent cases have treated scènes à faire in music. Third and finally, the Comment will offer a suggestion as to a proper scènes à faire determination and analyze how scènes à faire should be applied.