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The E-Rated Industry: Fair Use Sheep Or Infringing Goat?, Christina Mitakis
The E-Rated Industry: Fair Use Sheep Or Infringing Goat?, Christina Mitakis
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Note explores the copyright issues presented by the litigation between companies that sanitize movies for viewing by the general public and the studios and directors involved in the creation of the edited movies. Collectively, these companies comprise what is generally referred to as the e-rated industry.' Certain companies within the e-rated industry use digital editing software to edit profanity, sex and violence from popular movies, while other companies provide software allowing viewers to edit their own DVDs. In all cases, this editing is done without the consent of the moviemakers. CleanFilms, which rents out e-rated movies, defines e-rated movies …
Copyright And The First Amendment: After The Wind Done Gone, Joseph M. Beck
Copyright And The First Amendment: After The Wind Done Gone, Joseph M. Beck
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
On March 16, 2001, plaintiff SunTrust Bank filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against defendant Houghton Mifflin Company, alleging copyright and trademark infringement based on defendant's yet-to-be published novel The Wind Done Gone. On March 23, plaintiff filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction barring the book's imminent publication. The district court held a hearing on the motion for a temporary restraining order on March 29,2001, and then set down a second hearing for April 18, 2001. On April 20,2001, the district court filed a fifty-one page …
A Sample For Pay Keeps The Lawyers Away: A Proposed Solution For Artists Who Sample And Artists Who Are Sampled, Charles E. Maier
A Sample For Pay Keeps The Lawyers Away: A Proposed Solution For Artists Who Sample And Artists Who Are Sampled, Charles E. Maier
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
The law of copyright has its origins in the constitu- tion of the United States, which grants congress the power "to promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discov- eries. To carry out this mandate, Congress passed the Copyright Act, establishing the basic rights to be enjoyed by the copyright owner, including the right of adaptation, and the right of reproduction. ''
Sampling seems to be a clear violation of these exclusive rights. However, Congress has provided an excep- tion, the …