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25 Feb 2014, 8:30 am by azatty
Just last year, we hosted author and writer, Junot Diaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his stories on multiculturalism. [read post]
21 Feb 2014, 10:37 am by Jonathan Bailey
Williams, a notorious bank robber in the 70s that went on to found Black Hand Entertainment, represented himself in the case saying that the episode based on his life used elements from a treatment he wrote about his story that he registered with the Copyright Office and the Writers Guild of America. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 1:24 pm by Ben
 deadmau5The artists were joined by letters filed in support of copyright stakeholder groups including the Copyright Alliance, ASCAP, BMI, the National Music Publishers Association, Writers Guild of America West and the Motion Pictures Association of America. [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 1:18 am by Ben
Interestingly the writers oppose moves by the Hollywood studios and the recorded music sector to put in place new penalties in the digital age - the studios argue that high damages are needed as a deterrent, and are looking at a proposal which would make streaming of copyrighted videos a felony. [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 12:41 pm
“We are the Obama people,” said Camille Sweeney, a New York writer and member of the Authors Guild. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 12:42 pm by Andy Sellars
It is therefore quite refreshing to see legacy media outlets, like the Newspaper Guild, recognize the threat this behavior poses to all journalists, and come out strongly against these charges. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:33 pm by Gordon Firemark
.), So you’d have to go and get the actors’ consent, and that of their Union, the Screen Actors’ Guild. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 2:50 pm by Jonathan Bailey
Lappas, who fled his story with the Writer’s Guild of America, called his version “Time Card”. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 8:46 am by Sheldon Toplitt
 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)A dozen Guild members of the Providence Journal are taking the money and running, but the voluntary buyouts by four newsroom staffers and eight advertising dept. employees are not expected to spare the daily further layoffs, WPRI-TV's blog (www.wpri.com) reported.Among editorial staffers who took the buyout are a religion writer, an investigative/legal reporter and syndicated columnist Froma Harrop, according to WPRI-TV. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 2:50 pm by Media Law Prof
The Writers Guild and Joan Rivers have settled the WGA complaint over Ms. [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 12:27 pm by Media Law Prof
The Writers Guild of America East has scheduled a hearing to consider charges that Joan Rivers worked on the "Fashion Police" as a writer and showrunner while the show's writers have been on strike. [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 6:47 am by Terry Hart
“The Authors Guild (America’s version of The Writers’ Union of Canada), is proving itself, once again, to be the best friend of writers worldwide as it continues its David and Goliath legal fight with all-seeing search giant Google. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 11:38 am by Matthew David Brozik
., the Directors Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, the Writers Guild of America, MGM, et al.; ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, et al.; Ralph Oman, former Register of Copyrights of the United States—all in support of the plaintiffs-appellants—and entities including the Computer & Communications Industry Association, the Internet Association, Intellectual Property and Copyright Law Professors, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, among others, all for Aereo. [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 10:19 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
 They must also present a "consultation" from a peer group (usually a labor union that extorts a protectionist fee to confirm for the benefit of Homeland Security that its guild members' would accept the foreign artist into the fold on payment of union dues). [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 4:00 am by Michael Erdle
USA Today hockey writer Kevin Allen reported that when negotiations, contentious throughout the process, boiled over … Beckenbaugh brought down the temperature … with some shuttle diplomacy and mediation. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 6:39 am by Editor Charlie
It should not be lost on the creative community that Google is being sued by the Authors Guild over the Google Books Library Project—the Final Library. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 12:30 am by David Kravets
The Mountain View, California, search giant was subsequently sued by individual writers, publishers and the Authors Guild — litigation that has had a tortured history that resulted in a settlement a federal judge rejected last year. [read post]