I'm pleased to announce my new book Digital Media Law: A Practical Guide for the Media and Entertainment Industries, due out this October from Routledge. If you teach media law, or are simply looking for a resource that offers a succinct look at the legal issues confronted by professionals in traditional and digital media, then I encourage you to give it a look. It's aimed at communications and journalism students and practicing professionals in those industries, but the book is suitable for...

I will be speaking at the 2020 Midwest IP Institute on October 1 from 4:15 to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. Specifically, I'll be on a panel titled Copyright Enforcement Entities v. The Internet — Today's Practices and Policy Attitudes and What They Mean for Your Clients, that will look at the current state of enforcement practices in the visual arts industry. Moderated by Minneapolis intellectual property attorney Michael Lafeber, I'll be joined by panelists Michael Masterson, the CEO of Permission...

On July 28 at 3:30pm PDT (22:30 UTC), I'll be presenting a free "Zoominar" (a webinar, using Zoom) sponsored by the Pacific Planetarium Association entitled Using Music in Your Planetarium...Legally. Here's the official description: Many planetarians ignore the copyright issues surrounding the use of commercially available music in the planetarium, while others, fearing the unknown, simply avoid using music in their productions. Still others believe, erroneously, that so long as a facility is...

I recently had the privilege of being featured on Dr. Elizabeth Townsend-Gard's research podcast Just Wanna' Quilt. Dr. Townsend-Gard is a law professor at Tulane where she heads up the Copyright Research Labs. The quilting podcast is one of the Lab's projects, focused on building an "army" of quilters to talk about the love of their craft, as well as the copyright (and other legal issues) confronted by the quilting community. Fortunately — for me, Dr. Townsend-Gard, and the audience...