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Finding Entertainment Law Resources Online: From Scholarship to Scandal

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Mixing narrative descriptions with an easy-to-use template presentation, the American Bar Association's "The Lawyer's Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet" introduces you to hundreds of useful, free resources on the web to locate factual information. Click here for more information.

1. To begin researching an entertainment law question, reading law review articles, such as those found in Hastings' COMM/ENT, is a good approach since the article will provide an overview of the area of law and cite to leading cases and laws. Articles in COMM/ENT range from communications, entertainment, and intellectual property law to Internet, telecommunications, biotechnology, multimedia, broadcasting, and constitutional law. While the journal is not online full text, it has a free searchable subject, author and title index of articles from 1978-94. For articles from 1995-2000, you can browse the volume's table of contents (the most current issues are not indexed online). Citations and abstracts of each article are provided.

You need an article about misappropriation of identity and the right of publicity. Go to http://w3.uchastings.edu/comment/index.html. This will take you to the Journal's homepage for searching their articles and notes. Click on publications (left side of screen) and then click on subject (listed under Indices). What volume and page number does this article appear and what it the title of the article (list the first three words of the title only)?

Enter your answer here:

2. If you wanted to view an abstract of the Misappropriation of Identity article and also learn the author's name, you can view its abstract by clicking on Archive (left side of screen) and then clicking on the volume number from your answer above. Once you reach the screen with the list of that volume's articles, instead of scrolling through all of them to find your Misappropriation of Identity article, press the "Control" key and the "F" key (simultaneously) to bring up the Find box and type in the first word of your title. You will be brought directly to the abstract of the Misappropriation of Identity article.

Who is the author?
Enter your answer here:

(To obtain a copy of this article or any article of interest from Hastings' COMM/ENT, contact your local law library or scroll up to the top of the screen and click on the link to subscriptions office.)

3. While it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish E! Online's news from its "gossip," the site offers full text searching of its extensive Hollywood coverage of celebrities (this includes actors, musicians, writers and directors). While reading an article at E! Online's news, a useful feature allows users to click on a name listed in the article and retrieve a biography/chronology of that person's: (1) career; (2) credit list; (3) links to other E! Online stories about that person; (4) online multimedia clips and (5) fan clubs.

Go to http://www.eonline.com/ and search the news (click on the NEWS tab at the top of the screen) for Michael Jackson. Then, using the Search box on the right side of the screen enter Michael Jackson's name. Results for several members of his family may appear (e.g. Janet Jackson, Jermaine Jackson). Click on Michael Jackson's photo in the "Celebrities" section to link to his biography.

a) What is Michael Jackson's birthday?

b) Where was he born?

c) Which of his brothers performed as part of the Jackson 5?

4.Performing a similar search for information about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals an interesting and litle-known piece of information about his early acting career. In the "Notes" section of Schwarzenegger's profile, there is a reference to what appears to be his first acting role in an unsold, 1974 CBS TV pilot called "Happy Anniversary and Goodbye."

Who were Arnold's more-famous co-stars in that project?
Enter your answer here:

5. The Hollywood Reporter's (THR) site includes current news, archives (back to early 1991), the Blu-Book, a subscriber news scroll, box office charts, production listings, and script sales. Start at http://www.thehollywoodreporter.com/. Non-subscribers can search free and view summaries free.

Use the search box at the top of the home page to conduct a preliminary search for the "Jim Henson Co." (putting the company name in quotation marks limits results that exact phrase). Initially, the results will be listed in order of "relevancy" as determined automatically by the site's internal search engine. You can reorder the results from oldest to newest (by clicking the "Oldest" link above the results list) or you can narrow the list down to a specific date range using the drop-down boxes on the left-hand side of the page.

A March 8, 2001 article by Bonnie J. Gordon lists a dollar amount for which EM.TV investors would be willing to withdraw their lawsuit in opposition to the company's acquisition of the Jim Henson Co. What is that amount (in dollars)?
Enter the amount here:

6.While Variety.com has similar resources as THR, its archive goes back much further—to 1914. Variety.com subscribers can sign up for various free e-newsletters, with topics ranging from film news to box office numbers. Also available to Variety.com subscribers are reviews, credits, classified ads, obituaries, and photos. On the "legal" pages, browse for entertainment law related jobs free. Non-subscribers can read the headlines and abstracts of articles and reviews free at Variety.

Start at http://www.variety.com/. To search with keywords and phrases, use the main Search box on the home page. You can no longer conduct more advanced searching (such as limiting by date via an Advanced Search page), but you can reorder results by date (by clicking on the "Date" link above the results list).

Enter the phrase "Bing Crosby" and the word "UMG" into the Search box.

a) How much did the Bing Crosby estate sue UMG for in 2001?

b) The estate sued UMG for infringing on an heir's "right to publicity".
Select One: True False

7. You can use Variety.com to search for movie reviews. Use the main Search box on the home page and enter "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" into the search box. Then click the "Reviews" link above the results list to limit the list just to film reviews that include this film's title. What did reviewer Todd McCarthy say about the movie in his March 12, 2004 review?
Select One: Arguably the best of the lot Arguably NOT the best of the lot

8. Every Monday top stories from TelevisionWeek's weekly print edition are added to TVWeek.com. Most subscription entertainment sites offer summaries of stories free to non-subscribers and then have a link to "more" that usually leads to nothing "more" than a subscription request page. However, TVweek.com's "more" link offers free full-text access to TVWeek.com, including all stories, pages and archives, BUT only if you register (and the registration does expire after some undisclosed amount of time at which time you would have to pay to subscribe). Subscribers to the print version can search the web archives back to 1999.

Go to http://www.tvweek.com. In a November 8, 2007 news story, TV Week reports that Martha Stewart's daytime talk show was returning for a fourth season and would air on TV stations covering a specific percentage of the country? To research this question, use the white Search box found at the top of the home page and enter the relevant keywords such as "Martha Stewart and "season four". (You will be able to answer this question without registering for the site.) The percentage referred to is:
Select One: 75% 60% Less than 20%

9. Free information at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB at http://www.imdb.com) consists of searchable archives back to 1997, celebrity news, box office information, reviews, a picture gallery, and a film glossary.

Go to www.imdb.com and type "Tom Cruise" into the search box (at the top of the screen), and select "Names" from the drop-down menu. The results should include a "mini-biography" and a link to a more detailed biography.
What is Tom Cruise's "real" name?:

10. You can also use IMDB to learn how much Tom Cruise earned for his role in Risky Business? For this answer you'll have to look further down the Biography (you can also use "control f" to bring up the Find box and type in "Risky Business"). How much did Tom Cruise earn in Risky Business?
Enter the dollar amount here:

11.  Intellectual property law, especially in copyrights and trademarks, is a large component of entertainment law. For basic trademark search, search the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site (www.uspto.gov).

Go to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site (www.uspto.gov). On the left side of the screen, click the Trademarks button, then click the Search TM Database (TESS), and then click on New User Form Search (Basic). Enter the word "listserv" to see who trademarked this word and to find out what a listserve is. Use the included radio buttons to restrict your search to "Plural and Singular" forms of the word, and only "Live" trademarks.
Who trademarked the word listserv?: 
What is a listserve?:

12.At the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site (www.uspto.gov), you can search various fields, such as the attorney of record. In doing background research about an attorney, it is useful to know how many times he/she has been the attorney of record for a trademark and for types of trademarks/companies he/she has worked. To discover how many trademarks Stewart Bellus is listed as the attorney of record, click on the Trademarks button on the left-hand side of the USPTO home page and then click the Search TM Database (TESS). On the subsequent page, select Structured Form Search (Boolean) and enter "Stewart" into the first Search Term box and then use the Field drop-down menu to choose Attorney of Record. Then, choose and from the Operator drop-down menu. On the next line, enter "Bellus" into the second Search Term box and use the Field drop-down menu to choose Attorney of Record. Finally, click on Submit Query.

On how many trademarks is Stewart J. Bellus listed as the attorney of record?:

13. Refine your search results for trademarks handled by Bellus, by adding and Capone to the Refine Search box that appears above the results list, and clicking the clicking the Submit button. Choose the "Al Capone Spicy" trademark from Bellus' list of trademarks where he is the attorney of record. Is there an actual image of what the mark looks like?
Select One: Yes No

14. Notice the TARR Status button near the top of the Al Capone Spicy record. Click there for the current status, correspondence address and attorney of record for this mark. In what city is Bellus located?
Enter your answer here: 

15. The Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phono-records of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly. The Copyright Office, which is part of the Library of Congress, has a website with three searchable databases located at http://www.copyright.gov/. New records are added weekly.

Select the red Search Records tab located on the top right side of the screen and then the Search the Catalog link on the subsequent page to begin a search of registrations and ownership documents back to 1978.

You can search by name, title, or registration number. Searching by an author or claimant's name can be tricky because they are taken from the copyright application and this might differ from how the name appears on the copyrighted material. Also, if a person's name includes their year of birth on one entry but not another, the results will show as 2 separate entries even when it's the same person.

You need to know if Diane Gottheil has any copyrighted books. Click the Name criteria from the list, type her name into the search box (last name first name), and then click the Begin Search button. You will be presented with two results for Diane Gottheil. Click the title of each document to read more about the copyright information. In both records, Gottheil is listed as:
Select One: Author Claimant

16.In addition to establishing whether a copyright has been registered for a particular title, the researcher can then determine whether the ownership of the copyright has been transferred or otherwise altered. The Recorded Documents in the database contains legal records maintained by the Copyright Office since January 1, 1978. The records indicate: (1) whether a copyright has been transferred/assigned; (2) whether an author is still alive; (3) whether an author is anonymous, has a pseudonym or has an erroneous name listed in a copyright notice and (4) also shows termination notices of a copyright. New records are added weekly.

Searching for a work with the title Y'all my nuggz returns three results. Does one of the results indicate that the author of Y'all my nuggz assign his copyright to another party?
Choose one. Yes No

17.Using the Copyright Office website located at http://www.copyright.gov/, you can also create more precise searches by clicking the Other Search Options tab to access additional search criteria. We can use these options to learn the first registration/publication date for a periodical, such as Texas Lawyer.

Search for information about Texas Lawyer by entering its name in the first search box and indicate that you only want results where those words appear as a phrase. Use the drop-down menu to limit your search only to information about serials by selecting Serials: All Holdings Info (K779). You can further refine your search by adding a second keyword or phrase in the second search box and connecting them with the Boolean connector AND, OR or NOT. To refine our search further, we can add American Lawyer Media in that box, indicating that we want those words appear as a phrase and we can select the AND connector to indicate we want both phrases to appear. Since we're not sure where the phrase American Lawyer Media might appear in the registration, we can select Keyword Anywhere (GKEY) from the drop-down menu next to the second search box.

On what date did Volume 1 Number 1 of Texas Lawyer appear?

Enter the year here:

18.Go to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site (www.uspto.gov). On the left side of the screen, choose Search Patents under the Patents button on the left-hand side of he home page. You are then offered two databases to search, the Issued Patents or the Published Applications database. Patents from 1790 through 1975 are searchable only by Patent Number and Current US Classification, while patents after 1975 are full-text searchable (and full-page images since 1790 are included in the record).

Under the Issued Patents section, click on Quick Search. This is where you would search using one or two words only (connecting the two words with the Boolean connectors AND, OR, or ANDNOT). Your search can be further refined by choose dates and/or fields.

You need to research if anyone has a patent for a tree root invigoration process.

Search the words tree and invigoration and choose AND to connect the words.

Click on the result titled "Tree Root Invigoration Process" (number 6,845,587). Does the process have anything to do with soil?
Yes No

19. Return to the uspto.gov search page at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html. Under the Issued Patents section, try your skills with the Advanced Search, which should be used if you want to search more than two words or you want to field search. To search for a patent where the title has the words hair and scalp and the word grow in the description/specification of the patent, enter your search this way: (TTL/(hair AND scalp) AND SPEC/grow)

In Patent Number 6,985,611, notice that the keywords are highlighted in the results. Scroll down to the first time the word grow is mentioned. In the paragraph below that, how many hairs does the patent indicate are found on a "healthy head of hair?"
Enter the number here:

20. Return to the uspto.gov search page at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html and under Published Applications, click on Advanced Search. Using similar advanced search techniques as above, find out how many pet enclosure applications have been published listing Michael Farmer as the inventor. (The search can be entered this way: in/michael and in/farmer and abst/pet and abst/enclosure.)
Enter the number here:

21. Go to www.thesmokinggun.com. Click Archive (located at the bottom of the screen) and enter Nandor Santho into the search box and be sure to click into thesmokinggun circle and not www.

Police in Ohio credit a 911 call from "Willie" for helping them bust Nandor Santho on drug charges. Who is Willie?

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