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Myriah
The Intellectual Property Law Podcast series has a lot of very helpful information.
The first part goes over what intellectual property actually is and
intellectual property law actually covers. This may be the most important part
of the podcast. There are many different types of intellectual property and
many ways to cover it. Its important to
know what kind of law you need to cover your intellectual property properly.
There are patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secret law. Professor
Beckerman-Rodau goes through each kind of intellectual property law. The most
important types of intellectual property law for my business plan are copyright
law and trademark law. This series has also showed how certain intellectual
property laws can come up a bit short. Patents and copyrights eventually come
to an end. Once the protection time is up, these pieces of intellectual
property go into the public domain. Once in the public domain, anyone has legal
access to it (Beckerman-Rodau
, 2012). As Professor Beckerman-Rodau says in the
podcast, this is where trade secrets may pay off more than a patent. His
example was the trade secrets of Coca-Cola. If the company had used a patent
for their recipe, it would be in the public domain by now. By using trade
secrets, they have kept the recipe secret for over eighty years. (Beckerman-Rodau , 2012)
Episode 23 of Gordon Firemark’s Entertainment Law Update Podcast covers the topic of
Righthaven. According to the podcast, people go around collecting copyrights
and suing people that have used them. A lot of people just settle instead of
fighting against the infringement charges. This brings around something to be
very careful about. For my company, it may be possible to get sued by a group
like this. This podcast shows that the courts are now more aware of these types
of situations. It’s better to fight the charges than to just pay them off (Firemark, 2011).
Episode 29
of Gordon Firemark’s Entertainment Law Update Podcast goes over the 360 deal in
the music industry. The 360 deal lets the recording company share in every part
of the musician’s music career. According to the podcast, this type of deal is
in violation of talent agency regulation acts in certain states (Firemark, 2012). The podcast focuses on the California label code (Firemark, 2012). It brings up a very important topic in general. Though my company
is based in Pennsylvania and the podcast does not mention any sort of law in
the state, it is an important thing to look into. There are laws that my
company could break without even knowing about it. When starting deals with
bands, we will have to look into Pennsylvania law to make sure everything will
be legal.
Podcasts:
Beckerman-Rodau , A.
(Performer) (2012, April 25). Ip law concentration. Intellectual Property
Law Podcast Series. [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from -
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/intellectual-property-law/id388454392
Firemark, G. (Performer)
(2011, August 10). Episode 23. Entertainment Law Update. [Audio
podcast]. Retrieved from
http://www.entertainmentlawupdate.com/2011/08/elu-episode-023-monkeying-around-with-copyright-law
Firemark, G. (Performer)
(2012, March 29). Episode 29. Entertainment Law Update. [Audio podcast].
Retrieved from http://www.entertainmentlawupdate.com/2012/03/episode-29-360-deals-rights-of-publicity/
