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A Primer on Insurance for Music Festivals Image

A Primer on Insurance for Music Festivals

Mikaela Whitman

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.

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Counsel Concerns: Bid to Remove Daughters' Lawyer from Petty Estate Litigation Image

Counsel Concerns: Bid to Remove Daughters' Lawyer from Petty Estate Litigation

Jenna Greene

Remember the nasty fight between Tom Petty's widow and daughters over control of his estate? Now the mud is splattering the lawyers, too.

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Discovery Concerns In Blockchain Litigation Image

Discovery Concerns In Blockchain Litigation

Stuart D. Levi, Alexander C. Drylewski, Giyoung Song & Thania Charmani

The increased use of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, which have spread to the entertainment industry, including for royalty revenue determinations, has given rise to a variety of disputes. Substantive issues regarding the offer, sale and trading of digital tokens are coming before the courts, prompting novel discovery questions in these cases.

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Stan Soocher

Courts Refuse to Hand Over Documentary Audio and Outtakes

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Social Media Influencers: Basic Tax Issues Image

Social Media Influencers: Basic Tax Issues

Robert M. Jason

This article discusses the basic tax issues facing social media influencers, who have become an important element in the entertainment industry.

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Sony Music Must Hand over Internal List over Kesha Sex Abuse Claims Image

Sony Music Must Hand over Internal List over Kesha Sex Abuse Claims

Jason Grant

As the now four-and-a-half-year-long legal dispute between Kesha and her former music producer Dr. Luke continues in New York court, a state appeals panel has decided that the pop singer can compel Sony Music Entertainment to identify people interviewed in its internal investigation that examined Kesha's claims of sexual misconduct by the producer.

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Counsel Concerns: Low Sanctions Are Upheld in Lawyer's Case Over Booking Discrimination Suit Image

Counsel Concerns: Low Sanctions Are Upheld in Lawyer's Case Over Booking Discrimination Suit

Greg Landline

The case is rooted in an underlying lawsuit filed nearly two decades ago in New York by black music promoters Leonard Rowe and Lee King against the William Morris Agency and several other booking and talent agencies.

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Antitrust Issues Grow Out of Esports' Success Image

Antitrust Issues Grow Out of Esports' Success

William Stark, Steve Walkowiak & Katie Tipper-McWhorter

As esports continues its meteoric growth, its antitrust exposure also grows. Soon, the competitive video game industry must address its increasing market share, either voluntarily or in the form of lawsuits and regulations imposed from the outside.

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Stan Soocher

State Appeals Court Decides Alimony for Country Artist Joe Diffie's Ex-Wife Shouldn't Be Based on “Speculative Income” <br>Arbitration Clause in TV-Show Appearance Release Found Severable From Rest of Agreement

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A Practitioner's Guide to Key Provisions In Film Director Agreements Image

A Practitioner's Guide to Key Provisions In Film Director Agreements

Marc Jacobson

Film remains a director's medium, considering that the director will always give shape and vision to the writer's words.

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