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Should resale royalties be paid to artists and venues when tickets are resold? Such a resale royalty might encourage artists or sports teams to permit transferability for some or all their tickets. It would also help to value that property right. So how would that work?

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The primary issue associated with securing a licensor's consent for Internet AI intellectual property is that normally the licensor is a computer program, hence not a legal person.

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Notable court filings in entertainment law.

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A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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"Sister Sledge" Sibling's Use of "Sister Sledge Sledgendary" Isn't Trademark Infringement

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New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section Annual Spring CLE Meeting

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Part Two of a Two-Part Article In the United States and in most foreign countries, the "performance right" is one of the most important rights of copyright and, in many cases, the most lucrative. In the United States, there is no statutory license under the Copyright Act for this right. Songwriters, composers, lyricists (jointly "writers") and music publishers join these organizations, which in turn negotiate licenses with the users of music, collect the license fees from those users and distribute the monies to writers and publishers based on surveys of performances, specific payment schedules and distribution rules, as well as other factors.

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The November 2022 tech meltdown of online access that slowed or barred consumers from buying tickets from Ticketmaster for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, her first since 2018 and the largest one-day ticket demand Ticketmaster had ever faced, generated worldwide coverage and outrage from her fans. But the incident also resulted in a sizzling convergence of many of the issues that have plagued online sales of live events for years.