Monday, October 10, 2016

Sony brings hammer down on Wiener’s Katy Perry drag-queen video

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United States
Date published: 
October 5, 2016

"Ben Depoorter, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law who is an expert in copyright law, says this is typical of entertainment companies that worry about alienating potential buyers by having their performers associated with politics. Exhibit A is the country group the Dixie Chicks, who criticized then-President George W. Bush on stage in 2003 and faced a backlash that nearly ended their careers.



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 05, 2016 at 10:00AM

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