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Where There's a Will, There's a Way to Keep Michael Jackson in the News
By Richard Amada on Jun 30, 2009 | In General
Just in case the round-the-clock coverage of the death of phenomenally famous—albeit disturbingly bizarre—Michael Jackson hasn't quite satiated your appetite for news about the King of Pop, a new tidbit has arisen. I'm talking about Jackson's will more »
Like a Google in a China Shop
By Richard Amada on Jun 25, 2009 | In General
Perhaps China just doesn't get the web. The government of the world's most populous nation seems to spend a lot of time trying to reign in the chaos that is the Internet. Now it appears to have blocked the web site of Google, arguably the world's most… more »
That’ll Teach Ya to Love Music
By Richard Amada on Jun 23, 2009 | In Music
People are all astir over the $1.92 million verdict a Minneapolis jury imposed on a 32-year-old single mom it found guilty of illegally downloading songs from the Internet. Using one of the online peer-to-peer file sharing services, she downloaded 24 so… more »
Czech with the Photog First
By Richard Amada on Jun 19, 2009 | In Visual Arts
Okay, here’s an interesting turn of events…
Last year an American family has its group photo put on its Christmas cards. Ho-ho-ho.
This year, without the family having known anything about it, that photo ended up in a large storefront advertis… more »
The Lawsuit in the Rye
By Richard Amada on Jun 16, 2009 | In Literary
It's been more than a half century since J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye, stormed onto the literary scene as an oft proclaimed American classic. But the 90-year-old author and recluse isn't yet ready to unclench his tightly held grasp on h… more »
The End of an Era
By Richard Amada on Jun 12, 2009 | In Cinema, TV, Radio
Ready or not, the age of analog TV is over, and the time for DTV has arrived. Congress mandated that all broadcast television stations must convert from an analog to a digital signal by the end of June 12, 2009. That was an extension from the original… more »
Hot Picassos
By Richard Amada on Jun 10, 2009 | In Visual Arts
Let's just say this is probably a "blue period" for a Paris museum that recently discovered it's missing a sketchbook of 32 Picasso drawings valued at about $11 million.
BBC News reports that the Picasso Museum doesn't know the exact time or circumsta… more »
The Art of Appropriating
By Richard Amada on Jun 9, 2009 | In Visual Arts
I did a little volunteer work this past weekend at Washington's "Artomatic" event, which features seven floors of works by the area's visual artists. My contribution (since I'm not a visual artist) was to help answer legal questions at the desk set up b… more »
The Race to Trademark
By Richard Amada on Jun 4, 2009 | In General
An Artful Jurist reader has asked a good question, and I thought I’d share my response. Following up on the prior post, titled “The Common TM,” the reader wants to know if a phrase can be trademarked even if that same phrase has been commercially used p… more »
Is “Making Available” All It Takes to Get Sued in the Digital Age?
By Richard Amada on Jun 2, 2009 | In Music, Cinema, TV, Radio
If you’ve been following the news about Internet piracy and copyright infringement in the digital age, you know that the major players in the music and video industries are waging a battle against a mostly unseen enemy. The enemy is peer-to-peer file… more »
