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8 Jul 2010, 8:33 am by Ron Coleman
Republished by Blog Post PromoterReuters “news service” reports that the Authors Guild and a number of American writers are suing Google Inc. in federal District Court in New York City, “alleging that the Web search leader’s bid to digitize the book collections of major libraries infringes individual author’s copyrights. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 1:29 pm by Kevin Smith
Perhaps there is a middle ground, as illustrated by this remarkable letter written by media consultant Brian O’Leary to incoming Author’s Guild president Scott Turow. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 8:49 pm
Twenty eight writers have become new Guild members as a result of the new contracts. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 11:05 am by Ken Davidson
According to TheWrap, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have asked IMDb, the popular Internet movie database, to remove the birth dates of its members (SAG is only asking that the site remove birth dates for its members who are not yet stars). [read post]
10 May 2010, 7:44 pm by Doug
The Open Book Alliance, which includes Google rivals Amazon.com, Microsoft and Yahoo as well as some smaller publishers and writers groups, released an analysis of the proposed settlement between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers that claims the deal violates the Berne Convention’s Protection of Literary and Artistic Works as well as the nondiscrimination provision of the World Trade Organization’s agreement on Trade-Related Aspects… [read post]
9 May 2010, 8:52 am by Ray Dowd
Yellen, 548 F.Supp.2d 88, 96 (S.D.N.Y.2008), but also that her claims of copyright infringement were objectively unreasonable given that (1) defendant Linda Yellen had registered five different versions of the allegedly infringing script with the Writers Guild of America before ever reviewing Bauer's script, see id. at 94; and (2) “A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose,” Bauer's script about the relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. [read post]
7 May 2010, 12:50 am
(ZDNet) Survey: Hollywood won’t compete with piracy until it’s gone (TorrentFreak)   Brazil Brazil’s proposed Internet regulation – an update (that’s actually good news) (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)   Bulgaria Major Bulgarian BitTorrent sites targeted by police (TorrentFreak) (TorrentFreak)   Canada IFPI calls out the wrong country in Recording Industry in Numbers 2010 report (Michael Geist) USTR’s Special 301 report – Canada in… [read post]
6 May 2010, 1:39 am by Michael Geist
The Wire Report reports on this week's Canadian Heritage committee of the Writers Guild of Canada, which argued for two levies that would cover all distribution and storage points. [read post]
4 May 2010, 12:01 pm by Jay Rivera
  Book writers have been historically very protective of their works; it’s not like the music industry where people are covering each other’s songs left and right. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 2:53 pm by David Kravets
For the most part, Google, the Author’s Guild, and other writers’ and publishing groups have agreed to allow Google to scan their works, sell them on the internet and have them pop up in search results. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 1:23 pm
No doubt the transformation of the Screen Writers Guild and Television Writers Guild into the Writers Guild of America required adjustment too. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 6:09 am by Kenneth Anderson
  The writers believe they are expressing solidarity with me and with the sentiments behind the letter. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 8:58 am by Lawrence Solum
Brian Leiter (University of Chicago Law School) has posted The Radicalism of Legal Positivism (Guild Practitioner, 2010) on SSRN. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 6:20 am by Legal Profession
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I was flipping through the New York Times Sunday Business section this morning, and saw this article about the upcoming labor negotiations between the motion picture and television industry and the various unions and guilds (writers,... [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 10:01 pm by Steven J. Malman
Production assistants, the director, producers, writers, stagehands, camera persons, lighting crew, and other workers can also get hurt while doing their job in a studio or at the theater. [read post]