Bad news for one entertainment dealmaker named David B. If entertainment lawyers have to spend every waking minute negotiating every single boob flash, there will be less free time away from the office. A tad overstated? Probably, but fun to imagine anyway. Leave it to the New York Post to address this angle in a story how nudity riders are becoming an “everyday part of contract negotiations” for TV cast-members and their lawyers.

One argument not made in the Supreme Court’s recent hearing on the FCC’s authority to police indecency on broadcast television is that stripping the FCC of its mandate and allowing women to parade around naked on network shows will create a lot of work for entertainment lawyers. We count more than 1,200 words used to describe the rules and conditions of a TV station’s Sesame Street Fantasy Contest. Running on-air contests can be complicated. The dispute was brought on by a disappointed contestant who alleged was rigged in the favor of a friend of a station employee, but the FCC constrained itself to dinging the stations for lack of full disclosure. The FCC has fined several radio stations $22,000 for failing to broadcast all the material rules of a contest to win a car. The case continued up the appeals circuit over some $20 million in legal fees. The plaintiff claimed $2 billion in damages in one of the first cases alleging Murdoch company hacking, but was largely unsuccessful at the district court level. Supreme Court denied a petition by EchoStar and Dish Network to review litigation over allegations that NDS Group, a digital rights firm owned in large part by News Corp., hacked into Dish Network’s video-encryption system so pirates could steal programming for free. A decade-old case came to a quiet end last week when the U.S.

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