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The tax reform bill signed by President Trump at the end of 2017 (the Tax Cut and Jobs Act) has caused us to take a fresh look at many long-held assumptions about how to take into account income taxes in planning for the entertainment industry. In particular, the new legislation includes provisions that make loan-out corporations the entity of choice even more so than ever before.
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Legal Issues and Monetization Strategies In a Quarantine-Streaming Music World
By Gwendolyn Seale
Part One of a Two Part Article
While the livestreaming of music performances is not an entirely new phenomenon, the COVID crisis has transformed the live performance landscape, compelling artists from around the world to reach their fanbase by producing “quarantine streams,” in which they livestream their sets on social media platforms. Unsurprisingly many questions have arisen.
A Look at the EU’s Latest Proposal for Regulating Online Content
By Linda A. Thompson
The DSA is intended to reset the rules around online content moderation and to reframe the responsibility of platforms for illegal content uploaded to their websites.
Fair Use Applied to Embedded Photograph
By Stephen M. Kramarsky
The extremely flexible character of social media has required equal flexibility in courts’ intellectual property analysis. Happily, under U.S. copyright law, that kind of flexibility is possible.
How U.S. Court Ruled Whether France’s Right of Publicity Law Is Descendible
By Stan Soocher
Battles over celebrities’ estates often end up in litigation, but a recent court ruling involving the estate of French oceanic explorer, environmentalist and documentary filmmaker Jacques Cousteau included a not-often-seen right of publicity consideration: how a U.S. court determines whether right-of-publicity protection in another nation is descendible.