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November 09, 2009

Hollywood Docket: Secret treaty revealed; Google books settlement; Nick Counter

Entertainment law news this morning:

  • Wired has published the confidential Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The international treaty, which would impose new measures to crack down on piracy, has been subject to much speculation from lawyers, some of whom believe the agreement will change the Internet as we use it and others who believe it's not really that big a deal. Negotiations over the treaty continue in January in Mexico.
  • Google and book publishers will soon present a revised settlement agreement concerning digital rights. Since announcing a settlement last year over Google's efforts to scan library books, the agreement has come under intense attack and Justice Department review. 
  • Jennifer Lopez' lawyers are in court today in an attempt to get a restraining order to stop a home movie and other future projects from former J-Lo hubby, Ojani Noa.
  • David Letterman's alleged blackmailer may not cut a plea bargain. Sources tell the NY Observer that Joe Halderman is raising a lot of money to mount a vigorous defense. 
  • Dreamworks Animation general counsel Katherine Kendrick will leave the company at year's end to pursue philanthropic efforts.  
  • Nick Counter, the lead labor negotiator for Hollywood studios, died at the age of 69. Before serving as president of AMPTP for 27 years, he was outside counsel at the Motion Picture & Television Producers. Entertainment labor journalist David Robb recalls Counter's career.

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