Broadband TV Channel “NuevOn” Set for Launch

NuevOn, a celebrity-oriented Hispanic pop-culture and lifestyle Google/YouTube channel, launches in April. One of its shows generating buzz features international star and author Alejandro Chaban in a health-focused reality series. NuevOn is the new broadband television venture of Latin We and Electus International. (Frederick P. Bimbler represents Latin We). Please check back here for a

Spring Film Festivals Spotlight Client Movies

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry opens the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto; (the festival runs from April 26 through May 6). The documentary directed by Alison Klayman, (and winner of the Special Jury Prize, Documentary at Sundance), offers an unprecedented look at artist and activist Ai Weiwei, known for his architecture, subversive art, and his

Mama’s Boys of the Bronx

Featured recently in The New York Post and the Huffington Post, the reality series Mama’s Boys of the Bronx premieres on TLC on Monday, April 9. The series stars five boyhood friends in their 30s who each proudly live at home with their mother. The cast includes Anthony, 35, who has given up his job

Pinning Down the Copyright Issues in Pinterest

By Eleanor M. Lackman & Jennette Wiser The newest trend in social media, with over 10 million members and drawing 11.7 million viewers each month according to comScore, is the virtual scrapbooking site Pinterest. Pinterest allows members to upload their favorite images from the Internet or their computers and share them immediately with other members.

Fashion Protection: Will it Wear Well?

CDAS Partner Nancy E. Wolff will be speaking at the 27th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference in Arlington, Virginia. Her event, “Fashion Protection: Will it Wear Well?”, will be held Thursday, March 29, 1:45p to 3:15p, and will address the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Protection Act, a controversial proposed bill. Many argue it will

Tropfest 2012: Open for Entries

Tropfest New York (and Tropfest International), the world’s largest short film festival, is now open for entries through Thursday, May 10, 2012. Finalists will be screened in Bryant Park, Saturday June 23rd. Tropfest is free to attend. The festival is an outdoor celebration complete with live music and entertainment, red carpet arrivals, and highly anticipated

White House Releases Framework for Consumer Data Privacy

On February 23, 2012, the White House released Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy (the “Framework”). The Framework is meant to improve consumers’ privacy protections without stifling the sort of innovation and economic growth that companies seek via the digital space.

Google Books Case Developments: Google Responds to ASMP and Authors Guild

In a new turn in the Google Books case we have been following, Google filed its responses on February 17, 2012 to the American Society of Media Photographers’ (ASMP) and the Authors Guild’s oppositions to Google’s motions to dismiss ASMP and the Authors Guild for lack of standing. Google took issue with the Plaintiffs’ assertions.

Susan H. Bodine @ FICG27

Partner Susan H. Bodine attends the Festival Internacional de Cine in Guadalajara, Mexico (FICG27) (Friday, March 2 to Saturday, March 10). As the premier film festival in Latin America, FICG serves as a rich forum for the creative exchange between professionals, filmmakers, critics, students, and audiences of Ibero-America. It is a diverse selection of international

Big Data, Big Issues

Reminder: Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams and Sheppard LLP is proud to sponsor the Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy’s (CLIP’s) Sixth Annual Symposium, Big Data, Big Issues later this week. (Friday, March 2, 8:30am to 6pm). The event, which immediately sold out, addresses the new form of data processing, “Big Data,” in which computers analyze