CONTRACTS Spring 2008 - USD Law School - Prof. Smith

Assignments

263-272
274-277
277-279
281-284
284-291

295-296
298 review problem

299-305
305-309
312-317
324-338
342-349

Interesting contracts in the news

Here's a contract dispute in the MMA world (hattip JI).

And here's a story about the fight between New Line Cinema and the Tolkein Trust over proceeds from the fabulously successful trilogy of Lord of the Rings movies.  This NYT story is pretty good and more detailed.

I harbor a (very, very) small hope that this lawsuit might change the appalling norms in Hollywood about contract compliance, but it probably won't.  If the allegations in the complaint are true (and it would not surprise me a bit), I think it would be entirely appropriate to relieve the Tolkein Trust of all of its further obligations under the contract.  This would conceivably include New Line's movie rights to the book.

Assignments

Farnsworth

172-181
186-210
212-223
223-231
233-244
251-257

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Facebook lawsuit

Here's a link.  Quite a story.