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10:26 pm on April 27, 2015 · ascap (1), bmi (1), copyright (79), csusa (20), pandora (1)

VIDEO/AUDIO: Old Agreements + New Media = Big Issues? Performing Rights Organizations, Rate Courts and the Department of Justice @theCSUSA #copyright

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On April 22 2015 the Copyright Society of the USA’s New York Chapter presented a luncheon panel – Old Agreements + New Media = Big Issues? Performing Rights Organizations, Rate Courts and the Department of Justice – at the Princeton Club in NYC. For decades, ASCAP and BMI have been subject to antitrust consent decrees with the Department of Justice, which include restrictions on the ways in which these Performing Rights Organizations can and can’t issue licenses and a framework on how disputes over royalty rates are to be resolved. Recent rulings in the “rate courts” have addressed the ability of publishers to withdraw their performing rights for certain digital uses, with different results coming out of the separate ASCAP and BMI proceedings. With these developments leading to headaches for licensors and licensees alike, everyone is starting to ask whether the consent decrees and rate court procedures themselves should be overhauled. Last year, the DOJ opened both consent decrees for review, asking important questions about their relevance and effectiveness. A panel of experts discussed the key considerations. Speakers: Richard Reimer, Senior Vice President, Legal Services, ASCAP; Stuart Rosen, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, BMI; Kenneth Steinthal, Partner, King & Spalding LLP. Moderator: Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights, the U.S. Copyright Office. Video/audio is below.



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9:20 pm on December 31, 2014 · copyright (79), csusa (20), streaming (3)

VIDEO/AUDIO: Fair Compensation or a Pandora’s Box? Pre-1972 Sound Recordings & Streaming Radio @theCSUSA #copyright

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On December 11 2014 the Copyright Society of the USA’s New York Chapter presented a luncheon panel – Fair Compensation or a Pandora’s Box? Pre-1972 Sound Recordings & Streaming Radio – at the Princeton Club in NYC. A panel looked at the legal framework and issues involved in the recent lawsuits involving royalties for webcasting of pre-1972 sound recordings. After providing a background of the key issues, the panel discussed the potential practical impacts of affirmance or reversal of the recent Flo & Eddie decision, as well as whether the state-based issue of common law copyright for pre-1972 recordings is a matter that should be resolved at the federal level. Panel: Tucker McCrady – Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Gianni Servodidio – Jenner & Block; Moderator: June M. Besek – Executive Director, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School. Video/audio is below.


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7:21 am on December 8, 2014 · copyright (79), csusa (20), jonathan askin (4)

VIDEO: Spiders and Scraping and Bots, Oh My! — Datanomics, #Copyright, and Legal Liability @theCSUSA

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On October 27 2014 the Copyright Society of the USA’s New York Chapter presented a luncheon panel – Spiders and Scraping and Bots, Oh My! — Datanomics, Copyright, and Legal Liability – at the Princeton Club in NYC. A panel looked at the implications of the intersection of big data and data mining with copyright-related principles, including DMCA restrictions and fair use. The discussion covered the legal landscape and assessed whether certain ways of using data may have legal implications. Panel: Jonathan Askin – Professor,Brooklyn Law School; Joseph V. DeMarco – Partner, DeVore & DeMarco LLP; Dana Rosen – General Counsel, Wenner Media. Moderator: Robert Potter – Associate, Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton LLP. Video/audio is below.


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10:28 am on October 27, 2014 · copyright (79), csusa (20), ethics (5)

VIDEO: Separating Rights from Wrongs: The #Ethics of Enforcement @theCSUSA #copyright

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On September 24 2014 the Copyright Society of the USA’s New York Chapter presented a luncheon panel – If I Ran The Zoo: Probing The Contours Of “The Next Great Copyright Act” – at the Princeton Club in NYC. Katie Lachter, partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, ran through the ethical issues that arise when a lawyer is enforcing IP rights for a client, receiving a cease-and-desist letter in a client matter, and when she or he is aware that a client may be infringing a third party’s copyright. The program also touched on how social media plays a role in attorney conduct when representing copyright owners and users for enforcement matters. Also mentioned was abusive domain litigation. Video/audio is below.



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7:50 pm on May 6, 2014 · copyright (79), csusa (20)

VIDEO: If I Ran The Zoo: Probing The Contours Of “The Next Great #Copyright Act” @theCSUSA

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On March 26 2014 the Copyright Society of the USA’s New York Chapter presented a luncheon panel – If I Ran The Zoo: Probing The Contours Of “The Next Great Copyright Act” – at the Princeton Club in NYC. A year ago Copyright Registar Maria Pallante delivered the Manges Lecture at Columbia University in which she called upon Congress to enact a program of comprehensive copyright reform. Since then hearings have been held by Senate Judiciary, and the USPTO, to explore the issues involved . The CSUSA convened this panel of experts, and asked them what they would do if they “ran the zoo”, in the hopes of discovering where there might be points of consensus, and intractable strife, and, perhaps, space for deeper exploration. Speakers were Allan Adler: Gen. Counsel & VP, Government Affairs, Assoc. of American Publishers; Victor Perlman: Gen. Counsel, American Society of Media Photographers; Michael Weinberg: VP, Public Knowledge. Moderator: Robert Kasunic: Assoc. Register of Copyrights, Dir. of Registration Policy & Practice. Video is below.



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5:23 am on January 17, 2014 · copyright (79), csusa (20), derek khanna (2), MPAA (4), policy (40)

VIDEO: Copyright and the Changing Political Environment in Washington: A View from the Inside @thecsusa #copyright

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On January 14 2014 the Copyright Society of the USA’s New York Chapter presented Copyright and the Changing Political Environment in Washington: A View from the Inside. Panelists were Derek Khanna, Author of the RSC Policy Brief: Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it, and Ben Sheffner, VP, Legal Affairs at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), moderated by Robert W. Clarida. For most of our country’s history, copyright policy and legislation were largely immune from the partisan rancor that has long characterized other areas such as tax policy, social programs,and privacy protection. The organized revolt against recent efforts to enhance copyright protections, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), underscores that things have changed. The panelists, who come from both sides of the debate, explored the competing interests and ideologies that brought us here, and how the heightened role of politics in copyright policy is likely to play out. Video/audio is below.



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1:59 pm on December 4, 2013 · copyright (79), csusa (20), isoc-ny tv (53), mnn (7)

ISOC-NY TV show 2pm today: Content Aggregation: Fair Use or a Use Too Far? @theCSUSA #copyright

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isoc ny tvToday, Wednesday December 4 2013, the ISOC-NY TV show will  present the Copyright Society of the USA’s discussion Content Aggregation: Fair Use or a Use Too Far? on October 24 2013. The panel comprises The panel discussed the evolving law and public policy issues related to some prominent recent cases, and the broader topic of aggregation. Panelists: Bill Herman, Hunter College CUNY; Andy Sellars, Digital Media Law Project and Berkman Center for Internet & Society; and Linda Steinman, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Moderator was Elizabeth McNamara, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.. The show, which airs from 2-3pm, may be viewed via Manhattan Cable or online via the MNN website.

What: ISOC-NY TV Show – Content Aggregation: Fair Use or a Use Too Far?
Where: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
When: Wednesday November 6 2013 2pm-3pm EDT | 1900-2000 UTC
Manhattan Cable: TWC 56 / 1996 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34
Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel

1:03 pm on November 8, 2013 · copyright (79), csusa (20), policy (40), shira perlmutter (1), USG (40)

VIDEO: Shira Perlmutter – From Paralysis to Progress: The (Useful) Art of Copyright Pragmatism @thecsusa #copyright

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On November 4 2013 the Copyright Society of the USA presented the 43rd annual Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture featuring Shira Perlmutter, Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Perlmutter’s topic was From Paralysis to Progress: The (Useful) Art of Copyright Pragmatism . For most of our country’s history, copyright policy and legislation were largely immune from the partisan rancor that has long characterized other areas such as tax policy, social programs,and privacy protection. The organized revolt against recent efforts to enhance copyright protections, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), underscores that things have changed. Panelists Derek Khanna and Ben, who come from both sides of the debate, explored the competing interests and ideologies that brought us here, and how the heightened role of politics in copyright policy is likely to play out. Video is below.



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2:37 pm on November 5, 2013 · copyright (79), csusa (20), law (47)

VIDEO: Content Aggregation: Fair Use or a Use Too Far? @theCSUSA #copyright

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On October 24 2013 the Copyright Society of the USA NY Chapter presented: Content Aggregation: Fair Use or a Use Too Far? at the Princeton Club in NYC. Some of the most popular websites are based upon the aggregation of other parties’ published news, photos, television clips and other content. Aggregators who collect and post third-party content tout the utility of their “one-stop viewing” sites and argue that theirs is a fair use of the content. Content owners, however, complain that aggregators profit from their content without providing fair compensation, and that they are not benefiting from the recent surge in digital advertising revenues received by big technology companies such as Google and Facebook. Two recent decisions in the Southern District of New York have re-focused attention on this increasingly important topic: The Associated Press v. Meltwater, in which the court ruled that a media monitoring service’s aggregation of news story excerpts provided to paying subscribers was not fair use, and Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (now on appeal to the Second Circuit), in which the court upheld the creation of an index based on Google’s scanning of millions of books in its library project as fair use. Further, in September Judge Chin heard oral argument in Authors Guild v. Google on whether the posting of book excerpts on Google Books qualifies as fair use, and Fox News recently sued TVEYES, an aggregator of clips from television broadcasts. The panel discussed the evolving law and public policy issues related to these cases and the broader topic of aggregation. Panelists: Bill Herman, Hunter College CUNY; Andy Sellars, Digital Media Law Project and Berkman Center for Internet & Society; and Linda Steinman, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Moderator was Elizabeth McNamara, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Video/audio is below.



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9:25 pm on October 12, 2013 · copyright (79), csusa (20), digital music rights (2)

VIDEO: The Cross-Border Harmonization (or Not) of Digital Music Rights @theCSUSA #copyright

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On September 20 2013 the Copyright Society of the USA NY Chapter in association with the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers (IAEL) presented: “Beyond Berne and Borders: The Cross-Border Harmonization (or Not) of Digital Music Rights“ at The Yale Club in NYC. While each country has its own national copyright law, they are harmonized to some extent by the Berne Convention and other international agreements.Recently, however, the European Union has made further efforts to harmonize the process of cross-border licensing throughout Europe. A panel of experts addressed how copyright licensing in the European Union differs from US practice, and how copyright licensing developments in Europe have impacted digital content delivery across borders.  Panelists: Alexander Ross, Partner, Wiggin LLP (London); Eric Lauvaux, Partner, NomoS (Paris); Lee Knife, Executive Director, Digital Media Association (Washington, DC). Moderator was Jeff Liebenson, Liebenson Law (New York, NY).

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