Hopefully, you have heard of the musician, Joe Walsh.  There is a guy currently running for Congress, also by the name of Joe Walsh.  Candidate Walsh has used a song by Musician Walsh without permission for his campaign.  In addition, Candidate Walsh also changed some of the lyrics to musician Walsh’s song.  These [...]

First, I want to admit I am not an expert on the DMCA. I am familiar with section 512 that includes the ISP safe harbors including notice and takedown provisions. I agree with this provision because an ISP or a website cannot always know what its users are uploading, and it is the [...]

If you haven’t already heard, guitarist Joe Satriani is suing the band Coldplay for copyright infringement. The Satch is claiming Coldplay’s recent song “Viva La Vida” infringes on his 2004 composition, “If I Could Fly.” Coldplay denies the accusations, claiming that any similarities between the two compositions are completely coincidental. The band [...]

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Once again, it has taken me a while to post an update!
Since the last post, I had a whirlwind of a birthday celebration, which involved a week straight of non-stop partying. It was electric! My friend Rebekah Chesnes flew into LA and we painted the town with theatre, food, music and [...]


Today was my first day as a Research Assistant. I will be working on an entertainment law treatise and it should be quite interesting. My first assignments involve the following topics:
1. A memo on the legalities and legal issues of podcasting, complete with hypotheticals where problem situations could arise.
2. Bootlegging statutes [...]

I held the first meeting as President of our school’s Entertainment Sports Law Society this weekend and it was great. Thankfully, all of us are on the same page with what we want to achieve in the coming year. We are really looking forward to a lot of networking events, a charity talent/variety [...]

My first year of law school is officially done! It’s been a crazy year and I can hardly believe it’s over. I feel good about my final exams, although we won’t find out grades for a few months. I did get some great news — I got my grade for my writing [...]

It was suggested to me that I begin regularly blogging about my thoughts on the subjects that interest me like music, law, radio, and entertainment. It was also suggested that I keep you all informed of my life and views as a law student and member of the music and radio/podcast industries. So [...]

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