Entertainment and Sports Law

New Jersey has become a hot spot for major film and television production companies lured by the presence of generous tax incentives. Some “Garden State” entertainment attorneys say they are already seeing a shift in the practice area.

It’s been an active season for the federal appeals courts on the copyright law front. This article summarizes three of these recent circuit court decisions.

Along with wild growth and the evolution of the global sports industry over the last few years, the sports legal market is undergoing a profound transformation as more firms focus on building standalone sports and entertainment groups.

Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.

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

A current work-for-hire dispute over rights to the musical adaptation, cast album compositions and sheet music based on the children’s horror novel Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium explores the inter-relationship of work-for-hire and copyright-ownership language in agreements signed both before and after the Goosebumps play was created.

Rights of publicity now sit in a structural mismatch with the generative AI technology around them. Each unauthorized commercial use would in theory violate the right of publicity — but in practice, detecting it, identifying its source, and obtaining a remedy costs more than almost any individual claim is worth. And the volume keeps multiplying.

Following what has become a global trend, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that EU copyright law allows the bloc’s member countries, including Italy, to require platforms like Meta to negotiate compensation with news publishers for online press content.