Digital Media Law

Leaves The Hollywood Reporter; will continue to practice entertainment/tech law; writes at jhandel.news LOS ANGELES (SEPTEMBER 8, 2020) – SAG-AFTRA has engaged entertainment/technology attor...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2020/09/sag-aftra-engages-jonathan-handel-as.html

Music/FX credits: piano Amir Mofrat; flute Jensmuse; wind Mark DiAngelo. Click here if the player above is not visible. An ill wind blows Straight across the land: You can feel it now. ...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2016/12/sirocco-poetry-politics.html

The Grand Experiment He said I alone can solve it all:  The Mexicans will take the fall, Rapists and murderers one and all. I'll keep them out with a beautiful wall. He claimed Muslims o...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2016/09/trump-grand-experiment-video.html

‘THE NOIR SERIES’ HARKENS BACK TO THE DAYS OF LIVE TV BUT PRESENTS A THOROUGHLY MODERN CHALLENGE TO ENTERTAINMENT UNIONS Bad Medicine,' a segment from 'The Noir Series,' features a chain-...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/11/its-play-its-live-internet-tv-its-both.html

Hong Kong has been ground zero this year in the fight for freedom, with students and Occupy leaders battling police for control of the streets in a desperate campaign to maintain the Chinese ...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/10/citizenfour-review-quiet-moments-in.html

Actors often complain about late residuals checks, although SAG-AFTRA has cut processing delays lately . But few stories compare to the battle waged by ALEX DOE (a pseudonym), a voice actor w...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/08/an-actors-cautionary-tale-cancer.html

Two new Bluetooth speakers offer a great reason to jet on over to Kickstarter. The NudeAudio Super-M ($99, campaign ending on August 15) offers great sound in a package thin enough to sl...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/08/review-nudeaudio-super-m-and-aiia.html

Driverless cars are on the road now – Google’s fleet has logged about 700,000 miles of autonomous driving – and the California DMV will be issuing regulations in a matter of weeks allowin...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-do-we-know-driverless-cars-are-safe.html

I was stuck in traffic yesterday, which I didn’t really mind because I have a fun little yellow convertible, and I was thinking about Uber ($17 billion! – that’s the company’s valuation,...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/06/2030-may-be-year-theyll-take-your.html

My new website is up at jhandel.com . It tells everything you always wanted to know (and more!) about my background and entertainment/technology law practice. Give it a look! CHECK OUT “THE NE...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-website-jhandelcom.html

Next week’s Supreme Court argument will be difficult for cable-competitor Aereo, legal experts agree, as the company faces off against not just broadcasters but also the influential U.S. Solic...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2014/04/aereo-to-face-uphill-battle-in-supreme.html

The penalties could be severe – but Rivers may have some unexpected defenses. With the WGA East sending Joan Rivers off to a trial board for alleged violations related to Fashion Police, the ...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2013/07/rivers-faces-potential-large-fine.html

Follow the money and discover an unstated reason the Hollywood unions weighed in with briefs opposing the new service. Several weeks ago, Fox, PBS and several other companies were hit with a 2...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-talent-loses-if-aereo-wins.html

A must-have for academics, union staff and attorneys working in entertainment labor, ENTERTAINMENT LABOR: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY is a 345 page annotated bibliography of over 1,500 ...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-book-entertainment-labor.html

However, panelists also acknowledged the difficulty of achieving either goal. Pi Day – a multi-city international meeting of VFX artists – took place Thursday evening amid rising con...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2013/03/vfx-town-hall-meeting-urges-trade.html

Actor ANDREW BORYSKI was charged with multiple criminal counts for cheating aspiring actors out of thousands of dollars in an immigration visa scam, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office sa...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2013/01/canadian-talent-consultant-charged-in.html

As fans of The Hobbit scanned the red carpet at the film’s premiere in Wellington last night, some New Zealand activists are still bitter about the outcome of a failed unionization attempt i...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/11/normal-0-false-false-false-style_4083.html

My new book, The New Zealand Hobbit Crisis, is out on Amazon in paper (http://amzn.to/SiHUX2) and Kindle (http://amzn.to/UG7q7F). Check it out. Here's the description: Essential reading...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-book-new-zealand-hobbit-crisis.html

  VFX artist LUIS PAGES says Lucasfilm Singapore promised inaccurately that he’d have broad medical insurance if he relocated to Singapore for a job with the company – but then fired him...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/11/lucasfilm-faces-new-accusation-of.html

Visit the website for The Brooklyn Brothers, a New York ad agency, and you’ll find a splash page announcing their new Hollywood venture, called BB Hollywood. It’s a snazzy looking page ...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/10/hollywood-sign-owner-cries-foul-over-ad.html

SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry have agreed to postpone their previously-scheduled early negotiations of the union’s commercials agreement, the union announced Saturday. The existing...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/actors-union-sag-aftra-and-industry.html

“What’s anything without a trip to Mars?,” asked NASA’s ERIC DE JONG Tuesday night on stage at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. No one in the audience seemed inclined ...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/movie-academy-journeys-to-mars-and-far.html

Two prominent Hollywood unions are investigating the Lifetime movie Liz & Dick, The HollywoodReporter (exclusive) has learned, with the moves coming in the wake of reports over the weekend ...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/unions-investigating-liz-dick-after.html

Blasting Marvel Studios as “unfair” for scoring megahit The Avengers non-union in Europe, members and leaders of the American Federation of Musicians, including president RAY HAIR, picketed t...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/musicians-union-pickets-marvel-over.html

There's been a lot of discussion about how dues will change if SAG and AFTRA  merge, but no one's made it easy for you to know exactly what will happen to your own. For a detailed breakdown -- a...

http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2012/03/sagaftra-members-will-your-dues-go-up.html