Entertainment Law & Finance

The underlying story is a classic one of an artist whose works weren’t published or recognized for their importance until after the artist’s death. The legal angle in the case revolves around whether the artist’s estate or his former landlords own the common-law copyrights in the works the artist created.

Though LaBeouf and Barnett were not in an employment relationship, their dispute carries the straightforward lesson that an NDA cannot purchase silence that applicable law protects. In fact, an overbroad NDA can produce the very outcomes it was meant to prevent, such as costly litigation, public scrutiny and renewed attention to the underlying allegations.

In an eagerly awaited appellate decision on AI training and copyright fair use, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided that an AI-powered legal research platform infringed copyrights in Westlaw content used to train the platform.

Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.

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