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The modern-day music festival is a complex, entertainment extravaganza of elaborate stage productions and coordinated multi-day sets with numerous performers, at exotic locations across the globe. Music festivals are no longer solely about the music, but a wide variety of neighboring entertainment, such as art shows, athletic competitions, health and beauty demonstrations, virtual reality and stand-alone night clubs. From a risk management perspective, festivals now run the gamut on potential liabilities that include collapsed stages, cancelled performances, severe weather, terrorism, alcohol liability, patron bodily harm and death, product liability and breach of contract claims. In essence, music festivals have become a microcosm of live entertainment-related liability exposures.
Perspectives on Blockchain and the Music Industry
By Stan Soocher
A Q&A with Entertainment Lawyer Leslie Zigel
What’s Behind the U.S. Justice Department’s Latest Review of PRO Consent Decrees
By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz
In June, the DOJ announced its plans to review the two music-licensing antitrust consent decrees that have been in place, in some shape or form, for almost 80 years. Due to this newly initiated review, the competitive mechanisms that dictate how music is broadcast, streamed or played live could drastically change.
Third Circuit Clarifies View on Copyright Ownership, Injunctive Relief
By Charles Toutant
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit tossed out an injunction against sales of a book by Commerce Bank founder Vernon Hill II even after finding that the work infringed on a manuscript copyright owned by TD Bank.
By ssalkin
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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