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Features
Perfecting Film Financiers’ Liens in Copyrights
Bruce Goldner
The law on how to perfect a lien in a copyright application is foggy at best. This article sketches out pitfalls of the current process for perfecting a lien on a copyright application, and potential steps that a financier may take to help perfect and protect a film investment.
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Features
Decision of Note: 6th Cir. Says No ‘Magic Words’ to ‘Elect’ Copyright Statutory Damages
Stan Soocher
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided that §504 of the U.S. Copyright Act doesn’t require any “magic words incantation” for a copyright infringement plaintiff to choose a statutory damages award, that “[t]he word ‘elect’ does not by itself require formal procedures.”
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Features
No Secondary Liability Seen Yet, By Band’s Reps, for Sexual Assault
A federal judge in Camden, NJ decided that a Christian rock band’s management, talent agent and lead singer weren’t vicariously liable for the sexual assault of a teenage fan committed by a member of the band.
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Features
11th Circuit Says Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn’t Belong in Federal Court
R. Robin McDonald
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected an appeal by CNN to dismiss a libel case over the cable network’s 2015 investigation of infant deaths at a Florida hospital.
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Features
SCOTUS Hears Arguments on Copyright Registration Approvals
Scott Graham
While hearing January 2019 oral arguments before it, the U.S. Supreme Court sounded inclined to resolve a circuit courts’ split over copyright registration procedures against copyright holders.
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Features
L.A. Sees Many Moves Among Entertainment Law Firms
Entertainment practices with well-known clients are in high demand in the Los Angeles legal market, leading to a spate of lateral hires among American Lawyer 200 firms in the latter part of 2018.
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Columns & Departments
Stan Soocher
Actor’s Negligence Claim over Film Set Injury Preempted by California’s Workers’ Compensation Act
Nashville Federal Court Decides Record Producer Didn’t Abandon Master Recordings of 1970s George Jones Album -
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