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Features
Right to Funds from Sale of Tax Credits At Issue In Litigation Between Production Companies
Stan Soocher
State tax credits are valuable tools for helping meet the costs of producing films, TV shows, commercials, and other media and entertainment productions. But if more than one production company is involved with a project, a legal dispute can arise over which company owns the right to the tax credit funds.
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Features
Malpractice Claim Over Prince Tracks Is Governed by Massachusetts Law
Colleen Murphy
The Mass. Appeals Court ruled that a legal malpractice claim brought by representatives of the iconic musician Prince’s estate against an attorney and his firm is governed by Massachusetts, not Minnesota, law.
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Features
Defamation Cases Against Netflix, Funimation Have Different Outcomes
Adolfo Pesquera
Defamation litigation crops up often in the entertainment industry. Two recent Texas Court of Appeals opinions raise issues worth noting in such cases, though each of the Texas decisions had different outcomes.
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Features
Pondering AI Machine Learning and Copyright Fair Use
Cassandre Coyer
By feeding machine-learning models hundreds of copyrighted pictures to train them to identify and “read” certain concepts, companies could face violating copyright laws.
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Columns & Departments
Rapper 50 Cent filed a right-of-publicity lawsuit against Angela Kogan and her company Perfection Plastic Surgery & MedSpa in Florida Southern District…
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Columns & Departments
ELF Staff
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Columns & Departments
TexasBarCLE 32nd Annual Entertainment Law Institute
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