Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.
By John L. Geiger, co-author of Creativity and Copyright: Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative ArtistsA New York Federal District Court recently ruled in favor of comedian
Jerry Seinfeld by rejecting a copyright lawsuit brought by writer-director
Christian Charles, who claimed authors
By John L. Geiger, co-author of Creativity and Copyright: Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative ArtistsA Federal District Court in New York recently ruled in favor of
comedian Jerry Seinfeld by rejecting a copyright lawsuit brought by writer-director
Christian Charles, who claimed