Myers, Berry, and Weiler's Entertainment, Media, and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems, 7th

Imprint
West Academic Publishing
ISBN-13
9798892091343
Primary Subject
Entertainment Law
Format
Hardbound
Copyright
2025
Series
American Casebook Series
Publication Date
10/06/2025
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Description

The seventh edition of Entertainment, Media, & the Law updates this comprehensive entertainment law casebook, including discussions of 75 new cases and cutting-edge legal developments related to artificial intelligence (AI), defamation, the First Amendment, copyright, trademark, antitrust, telecommunications, net neutrality, and the film and music industries. New cases include:

  • Fayetteville Public Library v. Crawford Co., 684 F. Supp.3d 879 (W.D. Ark. 2023) (book banning)
  • Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, __ U.S. __ (2025) (age verification statutes and the First Amendment)
  • Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66 (2023) (First amendment and violent threats)
  • Favre v. Sharpe, 117 F.4th 342 (5th Cir. 2024) (defamation)
  • Hepp v. Facebook, 14 F.4th 204 (3d Cir. 2021) (right to publicity)
  • Structured Asset Sales v. Ed Sheeran, 120 F.4th 1066 (2d Cir. 2024) (copyright)
  • Hanagami v. Epic Games, 85 F.4th 931 (9th Cir. 2023) (copyright involving YouTube and Fortnite)
  • Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, 598 U.S. 508 (2023) (copyright involving photos of Prince)
  • Horror, Inc. v. Miller, 15 F.4th 232 (2d Cir. 2021) (employment law and authorship)
  • Foxcroft Productions v. Universal Studios, 76 Cal.App.5th 1119 (Cal. Ct. App. 2022) (contract interpretation re: Columbo episodes)
  • VFLA Eventco v. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, 100 Cal.App.5th 287 (Cal. Ct. App. 2024) (Covid-19 cancellation contract dispute)
  • Spencer-Smith v. Ehrlich, 347 F.R.D. 606 (S.D.N.Y. 2024) (representation of American Idol star)
  • Kelly Clarkson v. Starstruck, TAC -- 52781 (Div. of Labor Stds. Enf. 2023) (representation and royalties)
  • Drabinsky v. Actors Equity Ass'n, 106 F.4th 206 (2d Cir. 2024) (antitrust)
  • Epic Games v. Apple, 67 F.4th 946 (9th Cir. 2023) (antitrust related to Apple App store and Fortnite)
  • FCC v. Prometheus, 592 U.S. 414 (2021) (telecom re ownership rules)
  • Ohio Telecom v. FCC, 124 F.4th 993 (6th Cir. 2025) (telecom and net neutrality)

The new edition includes discussions of recent cases or legal disputes involving current artists, celebrities, movies, video games, and platforms, including Taylor Swift, Blake Lively, Kendrick Lamar and Drake, Kelly Clarkson, Ed Sheeran, Alec Baldwin, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Eminem, Britney Spears, Rick Astley, Michael Oher, Scarlett Johansson, Nina Agdal, Prince, Hall & Oates, Nicki Minaj, No Doubt, Fortnite, the Fyre Festival, Friday the 13th, NFL Sunday Ticket, Netflix, Anthropic, Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Pandora, Google, HBO, Ticketmaster, Twitter (X), and others.

The book continues the tradition of adding carefully edited recent case excerpts with many new questions related to the challenges that traditional entertainment law doctrines face with changes in technology and audience viewing habits.