Los Angeles Lawyer
The Magazine of the Los Angeles County Bar Association

May 2004
Vol. 27, No. 3

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Runaway Home
To keep film production at home, California and Los Angeles must match the foreign incentives that are attracting productions abroad
Mark Litwak

Code Breaking
The anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA have withstood all constitutional challenges to the sanctions against code breakers
James D. Nguyen

Independent Wealth
Financing counsel in today's independent film market must be a master of contract, surety, banking, and bankruptcy law as well as litigation and arbitration
Jeffrey S. Konvitz

Practice Tips
Fan Web Sites and Copyright Enforcement
Dennis L. Wilson and Konrad Gatien

Tax Tips
A Tax Anomaly That Penalizes Actors Working Abroad
Barbara Rosenfeld

Ethics Opinion No. 511
Sharing in Fees as Partner or Employee of Two Law Firm

Computer Counselor
Remote Computing Rules for Attorneys
Benjamin Sotelo and James A. Flanagan

By the Book
Clearance and Copyright
Keith E. Cooper

Letters to the Editor

Barristers Tips
The Extraordinary Nature of Writ Relief
Randee Barak

Closing Argument
Civility? Yes, Civility
Bruce M. Ramer