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Copyright Issues in YouTube, Second Life and Other Adventures in the Metaverse: Music, Law, Politics and Higher Education
E. Michael Harrington Professor of Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Music Business Belmont University
Friday, January 26, 2007 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union Presentation |
PRESENTATION: In this presentation, Harrington, a professor of intellectual property and music business, and consultant in numerous high
profile copyright infringement cases, will discuss the counterinfluences of technology and law upon music, video and artistic
expression on the Internet, as well as the new and daunting issues facing YouTube, Second Life, and Google.
He will analyze issues involved in specific new lawsuits brought against YouTube, Google and the online universe/metaverse,
'Second Life' as well as his own work as expert witness for the defense in lawsuits involving parody, mashups and 'live' mashups
on the Internet. These include the Jib Jab parody, 'This Land Is Your Land,' D.J. Danger Mouse's mashup of the Beatles' 'White
Album' and Jay-Z's 'Black Album' [The 'Grey Album'], and Beatallica's 'live mashups' of the Beatles and Metallica.
He will also discuss his work in assisting the plaintiffs in a broad coalition of public interest groups in ALA et v. FCC, a successful lawsuit that stopped the Federal Communications Commission from mandating a policy that would have given copyright
owners and the federal government veto power over the development of new technologies for computer and television tuners.
Finally, he will conclude with an analysis of the likely effects of the new 110th Congress upon technology, artistic expression,
education and law, and an analysis of the likely role of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in new Internet and technology
issues.
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BIOGRAPHY E. Michael Harrington is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Music Business at Belmont University in Nashville. He
has been interviewed by the New York Times, CNN, Bravo, Associated Press, the TODAY Show, NPR, Canadian Public Radio, PC Magazine,
Billboard, USA Today, Salon, XM Radio, Rolling Stone, Money Magazine, Investor's Business Daily, Mergers & Acquisitions, People
Magazine, Life Magazine, Readers' Digest, Washington Times, Miami Herald and others. He has worked as expert witness in hundreds
of music copyright infringement matters involving artists such as the Dixie Chicks, Woody Guthrie, Steve Perry, Keith Urban,
Ne-Yo, Collin Raye, Tupac Shakur, George Clinton, Avril Lavigne, Madonna and Patty Loveless and others, and delivered more
than 100 lectures to more than 70 law schools, organizations and universities throughout North America including Harvard Law,
Yale Law, the Boston Bar Association, the European Film Commission, the Experience Music Project, NEMO Future of Music Coalition,
Miami, Berklee, NYU, UCLA, McGill, Carleton, Eastman, Emory and others.
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