Chart of Assignments
Media & Entertainment Law, Fall
2011
Eric E. Johnson,
UND Law
Updated as of: November 9, 2011
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PART I: General Background
Law
Module 1: Sunshine, FOIA, and Access Rights
reading:
none
class media:
Federal FOIA –
slideshow [pdf]
Federal Open
Meetings Laws – slideshow [pdf]
Module 2: First Amendment Freedom of Expression: Incitement
reading:
EEJ– Part A [pdf]
Schenck v. U.S., p.12
Masses Publishing v. Patten, p.15
Brandenburg v. Ohio, p.24
Module 3: First Amendment Freedom of Expression: Obscenity
reading:
EEJ– Part B [pdf]
Luke Records v. Navarro, p.31
Module 4: First Amendment Freedom of Expression: Injunctions
and Prior Restraint
reading:
EEJ– Part C [pdf]
Near v. Minnesota, p.36
The Pentagon Papers Case, p.56
Module 5: First Amendment Freedom of Expression: Questions of
Medium
reading:
EEJ– Part D [pdf]
Minneapolis Star & Tribune v.
Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue, p.71
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, p.56
Module 6: Press Freedom and Government Investigation
reading:
EEJ– Part E [pdf]
Branzburg v. Hayes, p.93
Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, p. 119
class media:
Reporters
Privilege – slideshow [pdf]
Module 7: Regulation of Advertising and Broadcasting
reading:
EEJ– Part F [pdf]
Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC, p.128
FCC v. Pacifica, p.145
FCC v. Fox Television Stations, p.162
class media:
FCC Regulation:
Payola – slideshow [pdf]
FCC Regulation:
Obscenity, Indecency, and Profanity – slideshow [pdf]
FCC Regulation:
Closed Captioning – slideshow [pdf]
FCC Regulation:
Broadcast of False Facts – slideshow [pdf]
Advertising
Regulation – slideshow [pdf]
Module 8: Tort Liability for Audience Actions
reading:
EEJ– Part G [pdf]
DeFilippo v. NBC, p.185
McCollum v. CBS, p.190
Module 9: Copyright Basics
reading:
ML– Chapter 12
class media:
Overview of
Intellectual Property – slideshow [pdf]
Mindmap of
Intellectual Property [html]
Module 10: Copyright and Music
reading:
EEJ– Part H [pdf]
Newton v. Diamond, p.202
Morrill v. Smashing Pumpkins, p.212
ML– Chapter 8
class media:
Music Copyright –
slideshow [pdf]
Copyright
Reversions and Terminations – slideshow [pdf]
Module 11: Trademark
reading:
ML– Chapter 16
Nanotreatise:
Trademark, by Eric E. Johnson [pdf]
class media:
Overview of IP –
slideshow [pdf] (cross-listed
from Module 9)
Trademarks in
Entertainment – slideshow [pdf]
Module 12: Right of Publicity
reading:
ML– Chapter 13
Nanotreatise:
Right of Publicity, by Eric E. Johnson [pdf]
class media:
Overview of IP –
slideshow [pdf] (cross-listed
from Module 9))
Module 13: Privacy Torts
reading:
ML– Chapter 15
Module 14: Defamation
reading:
ML– Chapter 14
class media:
Defamation Flowcharts – handout
[pdf]
Defamation: Finer
Points – slideshow [pdf]
Module 15: Online Safe Harbors
reading:
none
class media:
Online Safe
Harbors – slideshow [pdf]
Module 16: Anti-SLAPP
reading:
EEJ– Part H [pdf]
AOL v. Zeran, p.220
class media:
Anti-SLAPP –
slideshow [pdf]
Module 17: Regulation of
Agents, Managers, and Attorneys
reading:
ML– Chapter 18
class docs:
Mötley Crüe w/ Coffmans re: Leathür Records [pdf]
PART II:
Specific Contexts
Module 18: Paparazzi and
Gossip Rags
class docs:
Jennifer Aniston / Topless Photos (letter) [pdf]
Britney Spears w/ Kevin Federline re Wedding Ceremony [pdf]
reading:
Lindsay Lohan & Dina Lohan / Claim (letter) [pdf]
Module 19: Record
Contracts
class docs:
Elektra/Asylum Records w/ Mötley Crüe re Recording Agmt. [pdf]
reading:
The Problem With Music by Steve Albini [web link]
Module 20: Pitches
reading:
ML– Chapters 1 and 2
Module 21: Film & Television Production
reading:
ML– Chapters 3 and 4
Module 22: Film & Television Writers
reading:
ML– Chapters 5, 6 (103-133 only),
and 7 (175-197 only)
Module 23: Film & Television Directors and Actors
[also covering producers]
reading:
ML– Chapters 6 (134-174 only), and 7
(198-213 only)
SKILLS EXERCISES
Letter Drafting
Exercise: FOIA Request
background: Federal FOIA -
slideshow [pdf]
Contract
Drafting Exercise No. 1 – Conjunctives and Disjunctives
Contract
Drafting Exercise No. 2 – Contract Language: Pan-Oceanic
Contract
Drafting Exercise No. 3 – Contract Language: Abigail Atherstan
Contract
Drafting Exercise No. 4 – Beyonce endorsement deal extension
source
material: Beyoncé, Inc. f/s/o Beyoncé Knowles w/ McCann-Erickson [pdf]
Contract
Drafting Exercise No. 5 – Choose your own revision
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