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The appellate court cannot refuse to listen to the appeal. An appeal "by leave" or "permission" requires the appellant to obtain leave to appeal; in such a situation either or both of the lower court and the court may have the discretion to grant or refuse the appellant's demand to appeal the lower court's decision.
That reversal was itself reversed on appeal and summary judgement granted for the government. Babcock's holding - that "In the United States, that body of law includes the bedrock principle that works in the public domain remain in the public domain.
In the context of the film and television industries, to greenlight is to give permission to proceed with a project. [1] [2] [3] It specifically refers to formally approving its production finance and committing to this financing, thereby allowing the project to proceed from the development phase to pre-production and principal photography.
A public service announcement (PSA) is a message in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior. Oftentimes these messages feature unsettling imagery, ideas or behaviors that are designed to startle or even scare the viewer into understanding the consequences of undergoing a particular harmful action or inaction (such as pictures ...
The right of government employees to address grievances with their employer over work-related matters can be restricted to administrative processes under Supreme Court precedent. In Pickering v. Board of Education , the Supreme Court decided that the court must balance the employee's right to engage in speech against the government's interest ...
Bleecker Street’s “Mass” takes place almost entirely in one room, with four characters. When writer-director Fran Kranz was hunting for funding, he resisted suggestions to “open up” the ...
Critics and fans of recent hits like “Oppenheimer” and “Dune: Part Two” have called on fellow viewers to experience the films on the biggest screen possible — and, in most cases, that ...
As it is common for scripts to be stuck in development hell, the options for a script may expire and be resold on multiple occasions.As well, producers who purchase an option and rework the script own the rights to their own derivative work, while the original rights holder owns the underlying rights.