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20 May 8:05 am
... up comics. There's No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy, 94 Va.
L. Rev. 1787 (2008). Earlier this Spring, the law review's online supplement, In Brief, ... the perspective of the author. If your piece is being pitched at a journal that hosts an
online supplement, consider offering to partner with the student editors in soliciting critiques and responses, and designing an issue of the supplement that constitutes, in
effect, a ...
6 Sep, 2008 5:48 pm
... Even if you really are the star, you need people to support you." Another improv-trained lawyer, R. Joseph Leibovich, a partner at Shuttleworth Williams in Memphis, agreed.
"Improv is useful for lawyers because one of the skills it teaches is active listening," said Leibovich, who still performs improv as well as stand-up comedy. "That's a skill that anyone can use." ... Leibovich sees another added benefit to lawyers from improv training. "The legal ...
11 Jan, 2007 6:05 am
I'm sure you could think of a lot of rules, but surely one of them is: Don't make Hitler sympathetic. Yes, perhaps in comedy, rules are there
to be broken, and as soon as you come up with an important rule, someone's going to say, then that's the one we've got to break. You're betting on your own genius then. And most films
are... bad: The advance buzz about "Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler," which opens [in Germany] Thursday, has been almost uniformly negative... "Most of ...
2 May, 2008 11:50 pm
... . There's no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight." The before-and-after videos didn't air on CNN or MSNBC or ABC. Instead, the revealing sound bites ran
back to back on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." The satiric Comedy Central program regularly unearths telling footage ignored or overlooked
by the real news guys. Or, to be specific, Adam Chodikoff does. Chodikoff, 37, doesn't perform on the show or write the gags that pepper Stewart's take on the day's news. But ...
28 May, 2008 5:36 am
As you may know, in March of 2007, Viacom, Comedy Partners, and other plaintiffs filed a $1B
copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and Google. In a recently filed "DEFENDANTS' ANSWER TO FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL," YouTube not only responded
paragraph by paragraph to the amended complaint, but also included a number of statements which have become widely reported. The original lawsuit contains a challenge to the ...
11 Sep, 2008 11:00 pm
... has so far been the most popular. But the videos have already been featured on many sites online, as well as on CNN. "We thought we could get it on Wonkette, which is my favorite
website," she says, referring to her comedy partner Diana Saez, who plays her sidekick "Dina" in the videos. "We didn't think it would
be a big deal -- we thought we could just show it to our friends." Benincasa characterizes herself self-deprecatingly as a "bed ...
27 Aug, 2007 5:15 am
... an illegal download site." Because of the slow entry into the digital realm of Viacom, Comedy Central's parent, and an almost crippling
deal point in Mr. Stone's ... privilege. Now, however, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker and their bosses at Comedy Central, a unit of Viacom's MTV
Networks, are attempting to leapfrog to the vanguard of Hollywood's ... cash and a 50-50 split of ad revenues, the network and the two creative partners have agreed to create a hub to spread "South Park"-related material across the ...
22 Jun, 2007 4:34 pm
... social networking giant which has gained some 40,000 comedians from across the world. To celebrate, MySpace is partnering with Just for Laughs, a comedy festival in Montreal, from July 12-22, which is celebrating an anniversary of its own-25 ... of General Electric, said copyright infringement is the
major obstacle that telecommunications and media companies face as they partner to provide entertainment over the Internet. During a keynote speech at the NXTcomm trade show
yesterday, Wright, whose ...
20 Feb 10:52 am
... Code section 16600 establishes that covenants not to compete are void unless they involve the sale of "goodwill of a business [or] where a partner agrees not to compete in
anticipation of dissolution of a partnership," see Kelton v. Stravinski, 138 Cal.App.4th ... if the contracting parties get it wrong, at least the Ninth Circuit has indicated a
willingness to restrict its scope. The Comedy Club decision is also important for the Court's analysis of circumstances under which an
arbitrator's ruling ...
7 Feb 10:21 pm
... a tough town for writers.) Sarah Silverman provided a touch of elegance . . . . . . and Rainn Wilson of The Office and writing partner Aaron Lee looked spiffy as well: The
awards ceremony was held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York, with ... to: John Patrick Shanley - Ian McLellan Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award; Norman Stiles - Herb Sargent
Award for Comedy Excellence; The Committee To Protect Journalists accepted by Board Chairman Paul Steiger and Executive Director Joel Simon -
Evelyn ...
20 May 8:16 am
... were collected (tagged, perhaps) and publicized as such ("Symposium on Law and Social Norms in Stand-Up Comedy", or something like that) in
both new and traditional electronic media (Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, CILP, the law review ... the perspective of the author. If your piece is being pitched at a journal that hosts an online
supplement, consider offering to partner with the student editors in soliciting critiques and responses, and designing an issue of the supplement that constitutes, in effect, a
...
18 Oct, 2007 2:37 pm
... chairman and C.E.O. of the Blackstone Group; Nelson Peltz, the C.E.O. of Trian Partners; Edgar Bronfman, Sr., the former chairman and
C.E.O. of Seagram; and Mortimer ... . And, my favorite, the Washington Post's Gene Weingarten talks about his favorite comedy show... Now, if
you're thinking: "Hey, wait a minute, that's not a ... on an onion bagel! Newsmaker: Feces? Feces is too good a . . . We look forward to the comedy ending for a brief segment and a serious debate between Shapiro and Dobbs. We hope ...
23 Jan, 2008 4:41 pm
... we could have gotten if we had kept litigating," said Theodore Boutrous Jr., a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner representing the plaintiffs. "We stopped further
distribution of the books, and got a substantial monetary supplement." Brown also pledged to ... it because of a passion," he said. "It's been very gratifying working with them and
helping protect comedy writing." Protecting that kind of creativity is important, he added. "This sends a message to others that
comedy writing is a creative ...
17 Apr 7:00 am
... … "Kelly," a fifth year BigLaw corporate associate, was in the offices of target company's outside counsel with her supervising partner, "Todd." Seated across from her in the
conference room was target company's outside counsel: "Brian," a former sixth year ... of Brian's you-didn't-try-to-stop-it counterargument. "Touche," Todd chuckled. Dumb and Dumber …
Our analysis of this comedy of errors begins with Brian, who, of course, should not have requested Kelly's exclusion. At worst, his comment was
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13 Sep 7:02 pm
... my new nerdy hobby: collecting amusing Craigslist legal ads. Some of these guys ought to consider standup comedy. A San Francisco attorney
is desperately seeking Susan, I mean, looking for a temporary paralegal, and does not mince words ... grad. Skills required are excellent writing, organization, and good adminstrative
skills. Intern will assist managing partner in brief writting, client meetings, court appearances, the drafting of newsletters, articles, lectures, presentations, and the
planning ...
13 Mar, 2007 1:29 pm
... , might be considered fair use or were even relevant to its lawsuit. For example, was a clip featuring comedian Jon Stewart in the title lifted from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," or did it come from one of his outside appearances? Snippets of a video from MTV meshed with an amateur one could be
considered fair use. And a clip with Comedy Central's "Stephen Colbert" in the title might simply be an amateur stand-up desperate for the
attention of viewers. As a ...
19 Mar, 2007 4:15 am
... than Nickelodeon's parent company, Viacom. MTV Networks - the division of Viacom that oversees 28 networks in the United States including MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Spike and Country Music Television - manages 44 domestic Web sites and was among the first to ... other sites. More than 80
percent of Nickelodeon's and MTV's audiences are under 34, as is 57 percent of Comedy Central's, according to Nielsen. (Viacom says that clips
of its programs have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times on ...
16 Jul, 2007 9:21 pm
... Girl v. Giuliani Girl video that made its rounds around the Web on Monday. "We really want to be a hub for edgy political comedy" Relles
said in a recent interview with Branding Unbound author Rick Mathieson. Relles said that he wants his site Barely Political ... are also experimenting with online political humor video
sites, as Sklar points out. They include HBO/AOL's "This Just In," Comedy Central's "Indecision 2008," The Onion's "Onion News Network," and
The Huffington Post's own 23/6. Thus ...
23 Sep, 2007 4:43 pm
... "What Would Jane Do" pathology in recent pop culture is really weird and frightening. At any rate, supposedly all of romantic comedy is
based on "chick lit, which owes its existence to Regency era novels of comedy and manners by Austen, etc. ... . But I dislike feel-good
reading, that Oprah-esque neat end-tying and redemption, where everyone ends up partnered up or glowing with the saving grace of self-importance. Fluffiness is for pancakes. I do
not equate fluffy with feminine--fluffy to me would ...
4 Jan, 2008 6:47 am
... may lie. And as long as we're free associating about sharp movie practice: some of you may recall that in 1984 Eddie Murphy was the hottest comedy star around. Dudley Moore made a movie called "Best Defense" and the advance word was that it was horrible. Reportedly, after major ... , Murphy was
brought in and twenty minutes of film was made and added to the film, which was then advertised as a Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy comedy, even
though they never appeared in the same frame. Hilarity ensued.
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