This casebook introduces students to the fundamentals of labor, antitrust, and intellectual property law as applied in the professional and amateur sporting industries. It covers the unique office of the league commissioner; the contract, antitrust, and labor law dimensions of the player-labor market; the peculiar institution of the player agent in a unionized industry; the economic and legal implications of agreements among league owners and responses to rival leagues; the system of commercialized college athletics governed by the NCAA and how law impacts individual sports like golf, tennis and boxing; as well as the structure and operation of international Olympic sports. It also covers issues of statutory interpretation, administrative law, and torts before a variety of forums, including state and federal courts, agencies, and arbitration. The new edition updates material on the business of sports with the latest antitrust, preemption, drug testing and labor relations cases.

Sports and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Ross,Stephen

Weiler, Paul

Roberts, Gary

Abrams, Roger

Specialties

West Academic Publishing

The fourth edition of this popular casebook reflects many new developments in the rapidly changing entertainment industry, both from a legal and practical perspective. More than half of the book consists of an updated textual discussion of the evolution and current state of the entertainment industry, along with key cases for discussion and illustration of central legal themes. The new edition includes recent cases, such as the Supreme Court's decision in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, with regard to fleeting expletives on broadcast television, as well as important circuit court decisions on copyright, trademark, right of publicity, and defamation issues. Other new developments include recent litigation regarding First Amendment protections for video games (now before the Supreme Court), copyright protection for material streamed or otherwise made available on the Internet, the FCC's new "net neutrality" policy, and the most recent Writers Guild strike.

Entertainment, Media, and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Myers, Gary

Media & the Law

This product covers a portion of the large array of privately written rules defining what sports players can and cannot do--rules contained in constitutions and bylaws governing professional sports leagues and individual sports tours. League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, and other sports constitutions, as well as collective bargaining agreements, can be hundreds of pages long. The authors have included excerpts that are of greatest assistance to readers.

Sports and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems, 4th, Documentary and Statutory Supplement (American Casebook Series)

Reconcilable Differences: New Directions in Canadian Labour Law

Carswell Legal Pubns

The fifth edition of Entertainment, Media &amp; the Law updates this comprehensive entertainment law casebook. New and cutting-edge issues and cases are addressed, including: 
<ul>
<li>
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants (First Amendment protection for violent video games)</li>
<li>
O’Bannon v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. (right of publicity/antitrust claims by former college athletes)</li>
<li>
American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo (copyright protection for television programming on the Internet)</li>
<li>
Copeland v. Bieber (copyright infringement claim involving songs)</li>
<li>
Cartoon Network, LP v. CSC Holdings, Inc. (copyright claims involving DVR systems)</li>
<li>
Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse (the latest ruling in the Washington Redskins trademark dispute)</li>
<li>
Beastie Boys v. Monster Energy (intellectual property claims related to promotional video for energy drink)</li>
<li>
Pandora Media, Inc. v. ASCAP (copyright claims related to music streaming)</li>
<li>
United States v. Apple, Inc. (ebook antitrust litigation)</li>
<li>
Laumann v. National Hockey League (antitrust claims involving television "blackouts" of live professional sports games)</li>
<li>
Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission ("net neutrality")</li>
<li>
National Cable &amp; Telecommunications Assn. v. Brand X Internet Services (Internet regulation)</li>
</ul>
 Coauthors Paul Weiler (Harvard) and Gary Myers (University of Missouri) are joined by Will Berry (University of Mississippi) in writing and editing this new edition. The book continues the tradition of adding carefully edited recent case excerpts with many new questions related to the challenges that traditional entertainment law doctrines face with changes in technology and audience viewing habits.

Berry III, William

Intellectual Property

The seventh edition of this leading casebook explores legal issues in both professional and amateur sports, organized to provide instructors with flexibility to cover selected doctrinal areas or industry sectors. Extended treatment is given to the key subjects of labor, antitrust, intellectual property, and the law of private associations. The casebook also covers the important topic of integrity in sports, the unique office of the league commissioner and its special concerns with the “best interests of sports”; the contract, antitrust, and labor law dimensions of the player-labor market; the role of the player agent in a unionized industry; the economic and legal implications of agreements among league owners and responses to rival leagues; the system of college athletics as governed by the NCAA and subject to Title IX; equity in sports, and the operation of international Olympic sports. Key features include: 
A new chapter on Sports Integrity, focusing on sports gambling, cheating, and performance enhancing drugs A new chapter on Equity in Sports, exploring the intersection of sports with race, gender, and disability Updated materials on sports league commissioner disciplinary authority and judicial review of sports league arbitration awards Updated materials on the business of sports, with exercises on the business dynamics of sports labor markets and on league decision-making about commercial practices Updated materials on the intersection of intellectual property and sports, including copyright, athlete publicity rights, and trademark. Reorganized and expanded chapters on intercollegiate athletics. These chapters include the recent Supreme Court decision (NCAA v. Alston) and other changes affecting college athletics, including antitrust and employment law challenges to amateurism, the new NCAA constitution, and state name, image, and likeness laws Updated chapter on international and Olympic sports, with materials on Olympic corruption and the Russian doping scandal Expanded materials on health and safety in sports, including claims related to concussions and prescription drug abuse, and to spectator safety from projectiles, pandemics, and fan violence.

Sports and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Harper, Michael

Balsam, Jodi

The sixth edition of this leading casebook explores legal issues in both professional and amateur sports, organized to provide instructors with flexibility to cover selected doctrinal areas or industry sectors. Extended treatment is given to the key subjects of labor, antitrust, intellectual property, and the law of private associations. The casebook also covers the unique office of the league commissioner and its special concerns with the “best interests of sports”; the contract, antitrust, and labor law dimensions of the player-labor market; the role of the player agent in a unionized industry; the economic and legal implications of agreements among league owners and responses to rival leagues; the system of college athletics as governed by the NCAA and subject to Title IX; and the operation of international Olympic sports. Key features include: 
<ul>
<li>Recent landmark Supreme Court decisions affecting the entire sports industry, including legalizing sports gambling (Murphy v. NCAA) and affirming trademark free speech (Matal v. Tam)</li>
<li>Updated materials on sports league commissioner disciplinary authority and judicial review of sports league arbitration awards</li>
<li>Updated materials on the business of sports, with exercises on the business dynamics of sports labor markets and on league decision-making about commercial practices</li>
<li>Reorganized chapter on agent representation of the athlete, with new coverage of foundational principles of agency law</li>
<li>Key decisions affecting college athletics, involving antitrust challenges to amateurism (In re NCAA Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation and Deppe v. NCAA) and penalties for rules infractions (UNC Public Infractions Decision)</li>
<li>Expanded materials on the function, regulatory apparatus, and activities of the NCAA</li>
<li>Reorganized chapter on international and Olympic sports, covering recent cases involving doping and hyperandrogenism</li>
<li>Expanded materials on athlete health and safety, including claims related to concussions and prescription drug abuse.</li>
</ul>

This supplement to Weiler, Myers, &amp; Berry's casebook, Entertainment, Media, and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems, highlights important changes in the law since the publication of the Fifth Edition in 2015. The supplement brings the textbook up to date with a series of cases and notes addressing a wide range of recent developments in the field. The supplement includes a new subsection on the Termination of Transfers, updates on the net neutrality issue, as well as edited versions of the following recent cases: 
<ul>
<li>Alexander v. MGM Studios (N.D. Cal.)</li>
<li>Baldwin v. EMI Feist Catalog (2nd Cir.)</li>
<li>Belgium v. Mateo Productions (N.Y. App. Div.)</li>
<li>Bell v. Itawamba Sch. Bd. (5th Cir.)</li>
<li>Brumley v. Alfred E. Brumley &amp; Sons (6th Cir.)</li>
<li>Dickinson v. Cosby (Cal Ct. of App.)</li>
<li>Elonis v. United States (S.Ct.)</li>
<li>Flo &amp; Eddie v. Sirius XM Radio (Fla. S.Ct.)</li>
<li>Gilkyson v. Disney Enterprises (Cal. Ct. App.)</li>
<li>Matal v. Tam (S.Ct.)</li>
<li>Rebecca Broadway Ltd. Partnership v. Hotton (N.Y. App. Div.)</li>
<li>Roe v. Amazon.com (6th Cir.)</li>
<li>Scholz v. Goudreau (D. Mass.)</li>
<li>United States v. Broadcast Music, Inc. (2d Cir.)</li>
<li>United States v. Justice (5th Cir.)</li>
</ul>

Entertainment, Media, and the Law, Text, Cases, and Problems, 5th, 2018 Supplement (American Casebook Series)

The sixth edition of 
Entertainment, Media, & the Law updates this comprehensive entertainment law casebook. New and cutting-edge issues and cases are addressed, including:\nElonis v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2001 (2015)(entertaining violence) 
Bell v. Itawamba County Sch. Bd., 799 F.3d 379 (5th Cir. 2015)(en banc)(entertaining violence) 
Commonwealth v. Knox, 190 A.3d 1146 (Pa. 2018)(1st Amendment) 
Dickinson v. Cosby, 225 Cal.Rptr.3d 430 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017)(defamation) 
Roe v. Amazon.com, 714 Fed.Appx. 565 (6th Cir. 2017)(false light portrayal) 
Alexander v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, et al., 2017 WL 5633407 (C.D. Cal. 2017)(misappropriation) 
Belgium v. Mateo Productions, et al., 138 A.D.3d 479 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2016)(contracts) 
FaZe Clan, Inc. v. Tenney, 2020 WL 3318209 (S.D.N.Y. 2020)(contracts) 
Scholz v. Goudreau, 132 F.Supp.3d 239 (D. Mass. 2015)(contracts) 
Rebecca Broadway Ltd. Partnership v. Hotton, 143 A.D.3d 71 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2016)(contracts) 
Lewis v. YouTube, LLC, 244 Cal.App.4th 118 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)(contracts) 
United States v. AT & T, Inc., 310 F. Supp.3d 161 (D.C. D.Ct. 2018)(antitrust)\nCoauthors Paul Weiler (Harvard), Gary Myers (University of Missouri), and Will Berry (University of Mississippi) are again responsible for writing and editing this new edition. The book continues the tradition of adding carefully edited recent case excerpts with many new questions related to the challenges that traditional entertainment law doctrines face with changes in technology and audience viewing habits.

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Sports and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Entertainment, Media, and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Sports and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems, 4th, Documentary and Statutory Supplement (American Casebook Series)

Reconcilable Differences: New Directions in Canadian Labour Law

Entertainment, Media, and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Sports and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Sports and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Entertainment, Media, and the Law, Text, Cases, and Problems, 5th, 2018 Supplement (American Casebook Series)

Entertainment, Media, and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series)