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Spotlight on Saper Law’s Media Practice
By Saper Law | August 19, 2009
Saper Law’s Media Practice
Are you a publisher, producer, or reporter? Or, are you a business utilizing television, film, music, or any type of digital media? Do you have a blog or do you report any type of news or gossip online? Are you concerned about your legal rights or legal liabilities? If yes, then you may have a media law issue, and Saper Law can help.
Media law encompasses a wide array of legal issues related to expression in the public sphere. Media law includes: advertising, defamation, libel, slander, personality rights, privacy rights, copyright, trademark, and other constitutional law issues including the first amendment right to freedom of speech.
Traditionally, media law is associated with mass media such as printed publications, radio, and television. Today media law includes “new media” such as blogs, twitter, facebook, music websites, and other social media and online resources. Saper Law has experience dealing with media law, and strives to remain on the cutting edge of new media legal issues.
Here are some examples of media law cases handled by Saper Law offices:
–>Represent musicians in music licensing deals under the Digital Performance Rights Act.
–>Assists websites with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act rules, including setting up a designated agent notice.
–>Draft terms of use and end user licensing agreements for interactive websites.
–>Draft employee handbooks that include a specific social media policy such as the one drafted for the Metropolitan Chicago Health Care Council.
–>Counsel employees who have been reprimanded for posting company information via a twitter or facebook post.
–>Assist with new media content licensing.
–>Represent individuals sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
–>Represent individuals in litigation who have been defamed on social media websites such as twitter, facebook, myspace, and sites like www.dontdatehimgirl.com, ratemyprofessor.com, ripoffreport.com, and complaints.com
–>Represented two bloggers who were sued by a development company for defamation. Saper Law helped negotiate a settlement for the bloggers.
–>Defended several individuals accused of defamation and false light based on statements made on an Internet newsgroup. Achieved dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction in one federal district court and dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in a second federal district court.
Topics: Advertising Law, Internet Law |
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