A bipartisan Congressional group wants to bring the Copyright Act into the digital age of streaming with the Music Modernization Act. Somewhat unusual in the world of new legislation, the bill se...
https://legalbytes.com/2018/01/29/streaming-music-streamlined/
by Stephen Díaz Gavin For more than 80 years, Section 310(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 has been interpreted as prohibiting direct foreign ownership of more than 20% and indirect ownershi...
https://legalbytes.com/2017/01/26/fcc-opens-radio-television-broadcasting-foreign-entities/
Thought leadership is a state of being in which one or more individuals articulate innovative ideas – ideas that stimulate thought and are futuristic or leading-edge. Thought leadership require...
Last year, I was invited to participate in and present a paper at the “mHealth and the Law Workshop” in Washington, D.C. . Then last month, I was invited to participate in a panel at the Mobi...
https://legalbytes.com/2015/02/17/mhealth-mobile-health-care/
As we say goodbye to 2014 . . . For those of you who are loyal readers and followers of Legal Bytes, you know this is the time of year when I break tradition and write a non-legal, personal and p...
Last week I received a novel invitation – call it a ‘dare’ from a long-time colleague and friend in a faraway land. He and I have never actually met, but we have interacted so often profess...
In 1918 there were no Academy Awards. But there was another Oscar! Oscar Micheaux, who taught us something about financing media and entertainment projects - perhaps the first crowd funding entre...
https://legalbytes.com/2014/05/19/entertainment-media-crowd-funding-oscar-no-not-that-one/
A United States District Court for the Central District of California has granted plaintiffs Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, MGM and Saul Zaentz - the motion picture studios and producer behind th...
On December 20, 2010, a Legal Bytes blog entitled Look! Out the Window! It's a Peeping Tom! No, It's Google Street View noted the problems Google was facing as a result of a faux pas in connectio...
https://legalbytes.com/2011/03/21/i-see-paris-i-see-france-googles-street-view-draws-french-fine/
Before we moved online to a blog format, from 1996 through the end of 2008, Legal Bytes was published as a one-page, monthly newsletter. But even then we had Useless But Compelling Facts, a featu...
https://legalbytes.com/2010/12/10/pardon-me-your-name-is-showing-perception-or-reality/