For Your Consideration: Entertainment Litigation, from Oxford University Press

The new treatise Entertainment Litigation, edited by Charles J. Harder (Oxford University Press, 2011), will be a must-have, both for practicing attorneys in the area and for law faculty who teach entertainment law. Its contributors include an impressive line-up from the ranks of litigators in the US and abroad and the subject matter covers the areas one would expect: litigation itself, rights of publicity, copyright, trademark, defamation, profit and participation disputes, invasion of privacy, labor law, New York practice (extremely important in entertainment law given the historic role of that state in the entertainment industry), the anti-SLAPP law in California and its use in entertainment litigation, and–very nice additions–coverage of entertainment law in Canada and the UK.

In the first chapter, “The Litigation Process,” authors Patricia Glaser, Larry S. Greenfield, and James S. Schreier spend a few pages discussing the interaction of law and popular culture, noting that the American Bar Association Journal’s August 2008 cover story featured “the 25 Greatest Legal Movies.” As one of the “jury” that came up with that list, I particularly appreciate the mention. They also note the existence of the first online law and popular culture journal, Picturing Justice, which ceased publication in 2006. (Again, as one of that journal’s webitors, I appreciate the notice). The footnote gives the wrong URL, though; the updated URL is http://usf.usfca.edu/pj//, not www.usfca.edu/pj/index.html.

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Hey, hey, FTC/Oxford Press sent this book free to me!