Do you need to register a trademark with the United States Trademark Office to protect the name of your film company, band name, record label or clothing logo? The phrase trademark has worked its way into the general discourse of American culture to mean anything from a brand to a name to a logo. Technically … Continue reading
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Feature Friday – Bachelorette Season Finale
When I am not reading or writing about intellectual property issues, my guilty pleasure is reality television. There is something about it that pulls me in. In college I was a faithful follower of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette series on ABC. Graduating from undergrad, life, law school and being newly married, unfortunately, curbed me … Continue reading
Show Some Southern Hospitality, Mr. Faulkner
With all the negative press that surrounds southern states, in particular Mississippi, it’s nice when Mississippi gets something right. Mississippi got it right last week by dismissing the Faulkner Literary Rights v. Sony Pictures case. While the state of Mississippi grows world class talent (B.B. King, Elvis, John Grisham, Jim Henson and Oprah – just … Continue reading
Feature Friday – Five Facts on Copyright and Trademark Law
Today I decided to feature my two favorite areas of the law – copyright and trademark! Our Feature Friday today is featuring Five Facts that you need to know about Trademark Law and Copyright Law in order to be successful in the entertainment industry. A trademark and a copyright are not interchangeable words or concepts. … Continue reading
Copyright Policy and YouTube
Sometimes there is NO better way to get your point across than by using puppets. As I mentioned in my post last week, I love YouTube. It’s a great vehicle to get your message and content out to the masses. Some of the most frequent questions I receive deal with posting creative content on YouTube. … Continue reading
Feature Friday – It’s a HEADRUSH
Headrush – often equated with standing up too fast and getting extremely dizzy while becoming lightheaded. HEADRUSH is also the soon-to-be released film from young Mississippi filmmaker Johnson Thomasson. Unlike some of my past Feature Friday subjects, Johnson and I have not actually met. He was recommended to me by one of my readers and … Continue reading
How to Earn 2.5 Million YouTube Views
Apparently I was not the only that wanted to question what is and is not allowed via the medium of video. To recap, check out my post from last week – Explict Sex Coming to a T.V. Near You. After thinking about my post last week, news of Justin Timberlake’s latest music video and the … Continue reading
Feature Friday – Susan Marshall
My Feature Friday for this week is vocalist and performer Susan Marshall! Susan has over 100 albums to her credit and has performed with the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd, North Mississippi Allstars, and Lucinda Williams – just to name a few. She also was the songwriter for one of the songs on Katharine McPhee’s debut album. … Continue reading
Explicit Sex Coming to a T.V. Near You
Indecent. This single word conjures up images of swearing during awards shows, gratuitous sex, nipple slips during half-time bowl games and most famously George Carlin’s speech of Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television. I recently had the opportunity to think more about this word, the implication to viewers of all ages, how this indecency … Continue reading
Statute of RyAnne 