Election & Politics Law – May 23, 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 5/11/2012

In This Issue: Senate Vote on FCC Commissioners; FCC Approves TV Channel Sharing as a Precursor to Incentive Auctions; FCC to Hold Channel Sharing Workshop; Walden and Eshoo Announce Creation of Bipartisan Federal...more

by Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. on 4/9/2012

Minnesota State Representative Joyce Peppin, is convinced that “trademark bullying” is a problem and that it requires a brand new law in Minnesota to properly deal with it. Representative Peppin apparently is a law...more

by Heenan Blaikie LLP on 3/16/2012

News reports that Rush (the band) have demanded that Rush (the Limbaugh) desist from using the band's music in his radio broadcasts have re-raised an issue we have considered here at the Signal on few different occasions. The...more

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 2/29/2012

On February 9th, Congressman Bobby Rush (former "defense minister" of the Black Panther Party and representative for the Illinois 1st Congressional District; at right) joined Congressman Henry Waxman (below) in...more

by Sands Anderson PC on 1/31/2012

The fair use doctrine hasn’t been this sexy since Biz Markie sampled Alone Again (Naturally). Fair use is news again because Mitt Romney’s latest campaign ad features a news clip of Tom Brokaw reporting...more

by Tamera Bennett on 1/30/2012

Newt Gingrich's campaign makes the news twice in a week for claims of copyright infringement of a song. Rude Music Inc., owned by Frank Sullivan, a co-author of the song "Eye of the Tiger," filed a copyright infringement...more

by Heenan Blaikie LLP on 1/30/2012

Canadian entertainment lawyers are forced to look on in wonderment (and envy?) at the plethora of entertainment law-related legal disputes which arise in the United States. Now (finally!) one with a Canadian angle - Gingrich...more

by Ifrah Law - Strategic Defense in Federal... on 1/23/2012

Organized online protests over two bills in Congress targeting online copyright infringement — the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate’s Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) — seem to have crippled these...more