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In this issue:


June 1985


Volume 7, Number 1


    Business Affairs
  3 The Personal Manager Controversy: Carving the Turf,
    by Fred Jelin

    Recent Cases
 9 Estate of Tennessee Williams is granted preliminary
    injunction by New York appellate court barring the
    renaming of Broadway theater after the playwright;
    court declares that Williams' right of publicity is
    descendible
 9 Federal Court of Appeals enjoins musical group from
    recording under the name New Edition, but allows
    group to continue to present live performances under
    that name
10 Federal District Court denies CBS Records' motion for
    preliminary injunction prohibiting MCA Records from
    releasing album by musical group Boston
11 Hal Roach Studios, the owner of copyrights in Laurel
    and Hardy films, infringed its licensee's right to produce
    and distribute soundtrack albums by issuing a conflict-
    ing license
11 Federal Court of Appeals upholds injunction barring
    Milwaukee area film exhibitors from engaging in split
    agreements throughout the United States
12 Federal District Court enjoins use of cassette copying
    machine to reproduce copyrighted recordings
12 Los Angeles ordinance establishing exclusive cable
    television franchise service areas violates the First
    Amendment; antitrust claim against city is denied
13 Landowner's consent was not required prior to instal-
    lation of cable television equipment on utility poles,
    because installation was within scope of telephone
    company easement
14  Regulations preventing the installation of lights for night
    baseball games at Wrigley Field are upheld by Illinois
    judge


15 Professional basketball player is enjoined from
    proceeding with court action against Kansas City Kings
    for alleged breach of player contract because contract
    provided for arbitration
16 NBC denied summary judgment in libel action brought
    by local government employee in connection with news
    report about his testimony before a legislative inves-
    tigating committee
16 Statute regulating illustrative use of United States cur-
    rency is ruled unconstitutional in part by United States
    Supreme Court in case involving Sports Illustrated
    cover photo
17 Music publisher did not have to include royalties earned
    in 1978, but paid by performing rights society in 1979,
    in company's 1978 taxable income, rules Tax Court of
    Canada
17 Briefly Noted: Broadcasting, Copyright, Video Game
    Regulation and Sports cases
17 Previously Reported

    In the News
20 London court rules that music publisher breached
    management obligations to Westminster Music
20 Louisiana Attorney General declares that prison
    screenings of rented videocassettes of copyrighted
    films is fair use

    Departments
21 Book Notes: This Business of Music (Revised and
    Enlarged 5th Edition) by Sidney Shemel and M. William
    Krasilovsky
21 Educational Programs Calendar
22 In the Law Reviews