Entertainment Law Facts

• To register with the Gaming Board Control of any state permitting, you must be offered employment as a gaming employee with a licensee. The licensee will provide you with an application packet. You will be responsible for completing forms, in addition to obtaining a complete set of fingerprints. You will need to return the complete packet, including a receipt from the fingerprinting agency, to the licensee. The licensee will submit the complete application packet to the Gaming Control Board.
  
• The original authorship appearing on a website may be protected by a copyright. This includes writings, artwork, photographs, and other forms of authorship protected by copyright. Procedures for registering the contents of a website may be found in Circular 66, Copyright Registration for Online Works.
  
• Trademarks are generally distinctive symbols, pictures, or words that sellers affix to distinguish and identify the origin of their products. Trademark status may also be granted to distinctive and unique packaging, color combinations, building designs, product styles, and overall presentations.
  
• The Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (BPDG) is a working group comprised of a large number of content providers, television broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, Information Technology companies, interested individuals and consumer activists. The group was formed specifically for the purpose of evaluating the suitability of the broadcast flag for protecting DTV content and to determine whether there was substantial support for the flag. The group completed its mission with the release of the BPDG Report.

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	Did You Know?
	Production Company is a major factor in entertainment The production company acts as central headquarters for all stages of production. They range in size from a single person to over twenty employees and commit to duties ranging from the inception of an idea to making sure the final print's delivered to the theater on premiere night. They're core functions, however, are to assist the headlining producer in developing scripts, attaching talent, and running the day-to-day production activity. Although a handful of production companies fall under corporate studio umbrellas that cover their overhead, most work on a project-to-project basis much like the artists.