Howard Leib is an intellectual property and entertainment attorney and consultant in both New York City and Ithaca, New York, with specialties in entertainment, corporate, trademark and copyright law, including litigation. He also is an adjunct professor of law at Cornell University. Leib also has taught entertainment law at New York University and business law at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. (See more of his biography at Cornell University.)
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Hair
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Howard Stern, one of the most controversial radio personalities, consistently pushing the boundaries of First Amendment free expression rights on public airwaves.
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Oh! Calcutta!
Oh! Calcutta!, the first Broadway show to display full frontal nudity, opened in 1969. The play inflamed some public officials, leading to censorship and First Amendment arguments.
Times Square
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