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Last week the Tennessee Supreme Court accepted an amicus brief Paul McAdoo filed on behalf of 14 national media organizations in the Burke v. Sparta Newspapers case.  Sparta Newspapers is seeking review by the Tennessee Supreme Court of the Court of Appeals decision...

Aaron | Sanders is pleased to announce that Tara Aaron and Rick Sanders have once again been named "Best Lawyers" by Best Lawyers®. 2019 will produce the 25th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and Aaron | Sanders is proud to have two of its attorneys named in...

Last week, Paul filed an amicus brief in the Funk v. Scripps defamation lawsuit on behalf of thirteen national media entities and a national public interest group in the Tennessee Supreme Court. The brief challenges a limitation on the fair report privilege that...

You are more than likely reading this post on the plane or in the airport on your way to Seattle. (For the International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, for our seven or so readers who don't attend). But if you're headed there, make sure this one's on your...

The Verge has been skeptical about the public understanding of blockchain, and this article is no exception. On March 22nd, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam signed into law Senate Bill 1662, to "recognize the legal authority of blockchain technology and smart contracts...

Paul has long been involved with the media law community nationally, including through his work with the ABA Forum on Communications Law.  For several years, Paul served on the Forum’s Training and Development Committee, including as one of its co-chairs.  The...

Those who follow our blog know that Rick has long been thinking and writing about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the reaches of liability for hosting companies and ISPS for infringing material posted by users, and what it is really supposed to mean to have a...

Tara's review of  the new book The Law and Practice of Trademark Transactions: A Global and Local Outlook (Calboli, Irene and DeWerra, Jacques, eds.) has been published in Oxford University Press's Journey of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Tara has reviewed...

Rick has blogged pretty extensively about BMG v. Cox Communications, including two about why the "Sony Betamax Rule," as commonly understood, didn't apply. Those ideas are now distilled into a single article over at Copyright and New Media Law (vol. 21, iss. 2, Summer...

Aaron | Sanders proudly announces the election of founding partner Tara Aaron to chairperson of the Copyright Society of the South.  The Copyright Society of the South's membership consists of publishers, attorneys, business people and academics interested in the...