Credible Fraudulent Transfer Advocacy
Appellate courts continue to use common sense when disposing of constructively fraudulent transfer appeals, as recent decisions show.
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Ticket Resellers' State House Campaign Raises Resale Royalty, Securities Law and Money Laundering Issues
Chris Castle
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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Licensing AI Content
Jonathan Bick
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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Players On the Move
ELF Staff
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Bit Parts
Stan Soocher
"Sister Sledge" Sibling's Use of "Sister Sledge Sledgendary" Isn't Trademark Infringement
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ELF Staff
New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section Annual Spring CLE Meeting
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Music Publishing and Recording Rates and Royalties 2023: Past, Present and Future
Jeff Brabec
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Todd Brabec
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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What's Happening With the Concerns Over How Event Tickets Are Sold Online?
Stan Soocher
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.
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11th Circuit Joins Controversy Among Circuits on Copyright Damages Look Back
Michael A. Mora
The federal appellate court in Atlanta, GA, in a case of first impression "that has divided our sister courts" over the U.S. Copyright Act's §507(b) statute of limitations on recovering damages beyond three years of a copyright lawsuit filing, just added to that division.
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Lionsgate GC Who Resigned Without 'Good Reason' Got Severance Pay
Greg Andrews
Add another plot twist to the storyline surrounding Corii Berg, who unexpectedly quit as general counsel of the film studio Lionsgate in December, even though he was under contract through June 2023.
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