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COPYRIGHT -- United States, COPYRIGHT cases, LAW teachers -- United States, ACTIONS & defenses (Law) -- United States, CONFERENCES & conventions, EMPLOYEES, and BLEISTEIN v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. (Supreme Court case)

The article presents a speech by adjunct law professor and U.S. Library of Congress Copyright Office Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Registration Policy and Practice Robert Kasunic which was delivered as the keynote address at Columbia University School of Law's Kernochan Center Annual Symposium on October 2, 2015. Copyrightability in America is addressed, along with various copyright cases such as Alfred Bell v. Catalda and Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.

MERGERS & acquisitions, SCHOLARLY method, and DANCE

This essay is a personal reflection on the 2017 merger of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) and the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) into the Dance Studies Association (DSA) and more broadly on the development of dance studies in Canada. My observations of the CORD/SDHS merger come from the work I did as Chair of the Joint Organization Transition Ad-Hoc Committee (2015–2017), where I participated in discussions about the current state of the field and its needs, interacting with dance scholars from around the world. The essay then provides a broad overview of dance's development at the post-secondary level along with key events beginning in the 1980s that I propose were part of the growth of dance studies in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COPYRIGHT, DECISION making, ARTIFICIAL intelligence, COPYRIGHT Act of 1909 (U.S.), and UNITED States. Copyright Act of 1790

The article presents a speech delivered by Motion Picture Association's Karyn A. Temple at the Kernochan Center Symposium on October 4, 2019. Topics include copyrightability in the U.S. Copyright Office, the application of the Copyright Act and its amendments in emerging fields like artificial intelligence, and the decision-making process at the Office to determine copyrightability.

TEA Party movement (U.S.), UNITED States presidential election, 2016, RACIAL identity of whites, POLITICS & culture, and RACE & politics

The article focuses on white working-class economic anxieties and how the Republican party used them to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Topics include the relationship between cultural politics and racism, the history of racial discourse through blackface, and the use of urban hip-hop phrases in Tea Party Congressman Ted Cruz's political posters.

ORPHAN works (Copyright), DIGITAL libraries, COPYRIGHT -- United States, INJUNCTIONS, DAMAGES (Law), COPYRIGHT lawsuits, LAW, and UNITED States

The article discusses an effort to solve a reported problem in the U.S. involving orphan works which are copyrighted materials whose owners cannot be located by a reasonable diligent search, focusing on the U.S. Copyright Office and the legal aspects of digital libraries as of November 2013. Injunctive relief and monetary damages are addressed in relation to American copyright law and copyright infringement claims. Orphan work-related studies in Great Britain and Australia are examined.

THEATER -- Congresses, HISPANIC American theater, DRAMA festivals, CONFERENCES & conventions, and UNITED States

The article discusses the Latina/o Theater Commons National Convening, a congress held at the Paramount Center in Boston, Massachusetts from October 31 to November 2, 2013, which aimed to discuss the status of Hispanic American theater. Topics discussed include a Hispanic American Theater Festival to be held in 2014, the participation of Emerson College in the organization of the event, and an overview of the congress program.

COPYRIGHT -- United States, LEGAL status of authors, PUBLIC interest, LEGAL status of artists, and GOVERNMENT agencies -- United States

The article discusses the possible creation of an additional Copyright Act in America which is aimed at addressing the legal challenges that authors, artists, and their audiences face as of 2015, and it mentions how the public interest might be served by the restructuring of the U.S. Library of Congress' Copyright Office. The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act and administrative agencies are mentioned, along with the U.S. Congress and jurisdiction over intellectual property laws in America.

ART house films, MOTION pictures -- Congresses, SEXUAL harassment, MOTION picture industry -- Social aspects, EQUALITY, GENDER -- Social aspects, and UNITED States

Information is provided on the Art House Convergence's (AHC's) conference at the Zermatt Resort and Hotel in Midway, Utah from January 15-18, 2018. Topics, including art house films, investigating sexual harassment in the art house film community, the group Alliance for Action's efforts in equity in film exhibition and gender, are discussed.

THEATER -- Congresses and BUSINESS meetings

The article offers a look at the activities conducted at the 13th International Brecht Society (IBS) Symposium that was held in Honolulu, Hawaii from May 19 to 23, 2010. An IBS business meeting was held prior to the opening ceremony that was conducted at the Kennedy Theatre. University of Connecticut professor Friedemann J. Weidauer and University of Notre Dame professor Melissa Dinsman moderated a discussion on postcolonial and postimperial Brecht.

THEATER -- Congresses, TRADE shows, BOOK signings, EXHIBITIONS, and CONFERENCES & conventions

Information about various aspects of the 2011 United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. (USITT) Stage Expo, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, is presented. Topics discussed include a performance by the Opera Carolina group, book signings by authors including Richard Cadena, Richard Dunham, and Joe Tilford, and exhibits including "Cover the Walls," "John C. Scheffler: Designs for the Stage & Street," and "Everybody is Dancing With Karagoz: Traditional Turkish Shadow Puppets."

DANCE, DANCE festivals, DANCE -- Congresses, DANCERS, and SOCIAL theory

At the first National Dance Congress and Festival, which was held in New York in May 1936, Edna Ocko, the dance editor of New Theatre Magazine, told the assembled delegates, “One cannot minimize the importance of an artist's social point of view, for it is he who, bringing his ideas before vast audiences, can organize and direct social thought” (25). Noting that young, politically aware choreographers had already embraced the political potential of dance, Ocko listed several topical social themes recently explored in choreography, including the need for “Negro and white unity”—an assertion championed by other speakers and formally adopted in the final session of the gathering when the delegates passed the following resolution: “Whereas the Negro People in America have been subject to segregation and suppression which has limited their development in the field of creative dance, be it resolved that the Dance Congress encourage and sponsor the work of the Negro People in the creative fields” (Ocko 1936, 27 and “Resolutions” 1936, 94). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TRADEMARK application & registration, PATENTS, JURISPRUDENCE, DISCRIMINATION, JUDGMENTS (Law), and TRADEMARK Act of 1946 (U.S.)

This article analyzes and contextualizes multiple effects on First Amendment jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court's 2019 trademark ruling in Iancu v. Brunetti. It explores what the five opinions in the case reveal regarding the justices' divergent views on both offensive speech and standards of scrutiny. The six-justice Brunetti majority struck down part of the federal Lanham Act that allowed the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") to deny registration to marks it deemed immoral or scandalous. Yet several justices wanted to permit the PTO to reject registration for vulgar or profane marks that offend based not on the ideas or views conveyed, but rather because of the manner and mode of expression. Furthermore, the majority specified it was silent about such a censorial mode-ofexpression possibility. Beyond examining what this portends for Congress in drafting a new statute, the article also considers: (1) Brunetti's implications for the doctrine against viewpoint-based discrimination; (2) Justice Stephen Breyer's continued assault on the Court's traditional categorical approach to First Amendment cases; and (3) how Brunetti indirectly breathes life into the Federal Communications Commission's quiescent regulation of profanity on the broadcast airwaves. Ultimately, while the Court under Chief Justice John Roberts's leadership has protected offensive speech in cases such as Snyder v. Phelps and United States v. Stevens, the quintet of opinions in Brunetti reveals that this benevolence has limits, especially when government protection confers benefits upon such expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]