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Congratulations
to Quartet
San Francisco for their two Grammy Nominations. "QSF
Plays Brubeck" was nominated for Best Classical Crossover
Album and Best Engineered Album, Classical. The 52nd Annual
Grammy Awards will be held at Staples Center, Los Angeles on
January 31, 2010.
Benjamin
Franzen's and Kembrew McLeod's new film, Copyright
Criminals, debuted on PBS' Independent Lens the week
of January 19th, 2010. Interview
with the filmmakers.
Flipper
released their new studio album, Love,
and live album Fight, both featuring Krist Novoselic
on bass. With their first studio album in 16 years and a 2009
world tour, one of the most important bands from the last 30
years finally gets the recognition they deserve.
Sam
Green and Warner Jepson had videos in the "California Video"
exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. More
information.
Quartet
San Francisco received a second-consecutive nomination for
Best Classical Crossover Album, Whirled Chamber Music;
50th Annual GRAMMYŠ Awards, February 10, 2008. Press
release.
Alan
Korn's law review article, "Issues
Facing Legal Practitioners in Measuring Substantiality of Contemporary
Musical Expression," was published in the Spring
2007 issue of the John Marshall Law School Review of Intellectual
Property Law. The article highlights some of the legal issues
facing modern composers of jazz, avant-garde, hip-hop, electronica
and world music, and the current split among the U.S. Circuit
Courts in how to measure the substantiality of those works.
On
January 26, 2007, Alan was the featured speaker at the American
Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Mid-Winter Institute in New Orleans. The plenary panel, “Copyright
in Jazz (and Other Improvisatory Arts),” addressed the
topic “Newton v. Diamond: Judicial Improvisation?”
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