By Atreya Mathur and Beverly Osazuwa Dance has always been a significant part of human expression, and the expansion of the 1976 Copyright Act was the first U.S. law to make choreography copyrightable.[1] With the rise of MTV and music videos in the eighties, dance routines like those by Michael Peters (“Thriller”) and Anthony Thomas (“Rhythm Nation”) saw mass popularization. [read post]

Senate Challenges Campaign Finance Rules MSN – Taylor Lorenz (Washington Post) | Published: 7/10/2024 Caroline Gleich, a professional ski mountaineer and online content creator who is vying to replace U.S. [read post]

Retired Lawyer Wrote the Book, Literally, on Corporations Entertaining Politicians MSN – Kate Ackley (Roll Call) | Published: 1/24/2022 When Ken Gross joined Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s Washington office, he envisioned a nonpartisan political law practice, catering mostly to corporate clients. [read post]

—  Kate Winston, Inside EPA, September 18, 2009 Key federal courts are backing activists in suits under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to review the impacts of natural gas drilling fluids on underground aquifers, rulings that activists hope will bolster pending bills to restore EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) authority to oversee hydraulic fracturing — a controversial gas drilling procedure that requires injection of chemicals into wells. [read post]