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Legal Issues and Monetization Strategies In a Quarantine-Streaming Music World Image

Legal Issues and Monetization Strategies In a Quarantine-Streaming Music World

Gwendolyn Seale

Part One of a Two Part Article While the livestreaming of music performances is not an entirely new phenomenon, the COVID crisis has transformed the live performance landscape, compelling artists from around the world to reach their fanbase by producing "quarantine streams," in which they livestream their sets on social media platforms. Unsurprisingly many questions have arisen.

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A Look at the EU's Latest Proposal for Regulating Online Content Image

A Look at the EU's Latest Proposal for Regulating Online Content

Linda A. Thompson

The DSA is intended to reset the rules around online content moderation and to reframe the responsibility of platforms for illegal content uploaded to their websites.

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To Embed, or Not to Embed, that is the Question Image

To Embed, or Not to Embed, that is the Question

Shaleen J. Patel & Mike Hobbs

Would Shakespeare Post Hamlet on Instagram in 2020? Recent legal and procedural developments associated with the ubiquitous Instagram social media site have created significant practical and legal risks for both copyright owners and account holders.

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Judge's Ruling in Epic Games/Apple App Store Battle Image

Judge's Ruling in Epic Games/Apple App Store Battle

ssalkin

Entertainment consumer icon Fortnite's pathway back to the App Store is in the hands of the video game developer, a California federal judge decided in the closely watched legal battle over the distribution of app content.

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ESports Streaming Deal Part of Law Firm Practice Aims Image

ESports Streaming Deal Part of Law Firm Practice Aims

Patrick Smith

It's a deal that provides a potential look into a future where esports, like traditional sports before them, provide a potentially lucrative practice area for firms that want to plant a flag in that plot.

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Ticket Refund Suits Against StubHub to Get MDL Treatment Image

Ticket Refund Suits Against StubHub to Get MDL Treatment

Amanda Bronstad

Online ticket reseller StubHub faces lawsuits over allegedly unrefunded event tickets in California, after a federal judicial panel ordered that similar cases from jurisdictions in multiple states be coordinated.

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Facebook and Instagram Developers Sued for Privacy Violations In U.S. and UK Image

Facebook and Instagram Developers Sued for Privacy Violations In U.S. and UK

Alaina Lancaster

Facebook filed two separate lawsuits in the UK and U.S. that the company says is part of an ongoing effort to hold developers that abuse its platform accountable.

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What's in a Name? Booking.com and Consumer Perception Evidence Image

What's in a Name? Booking.com and Consumer Perception Evidence

David H. Bernstein & Jared I. Kagan

In the first case in U.S. Supreme Court history argued by telephone, the Court ruled 8-1 in favor of Booking.com, holding that it could register as a trademark its eponymous domain name BOOKING.COM.

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What's In a Name? Booking.com and Consumer Perception Evidence Image

What's In a Name? Booking.com and Consumer Perception Evidence

David H. Bernstein & Jared I. Kagan

In the first case in U.S. Supreme Court history argued by telephone, the Court on June 30, 2020 ruled 8-1 in favor of Booking.com holding that it could register as a trademark its eponymous domain name BOOKING.COM.

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TRO Bid in Arts Case Results in COVID-19 Rebuke from Judge Image

TRO Bid in Arts Case Results in COVID-19 Rebuke from Judge

Jenna Greene

At this moment in COVID-19 time, if your case involved stopping the sale of counterfeit unicorn products on the Internet, sorry, that wouldn't be an emergency. That was the message from U.S. District Judge Steven C. Seeger, in a decision denying a request for a temporary restraining order filed on behalf of Art Ask Agency, the exclusive licensee for the fantasy art of British artist Anne Stokes, who is popular among the Dungeons and Dragons crowd.

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