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The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit again threw out a $550,000 fine against CBS Corp. for televising Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
The year 2013 may be a watershed in the music industry. It is the year that opens a new window in the Copyright Act through which many post-1977 grants of rights under copyright potentially could be terminated.
At the 34th Annual ABA Forum on Franchising, held in Baltimore in October, two veteran franchisee attorneys led a session in which they set forth the basics for protecting franchisees' rights and interests.
A common question that commercial landlords and tenants face is which of them is responsible for a repair to the subject premises. These disputes often center on whether the repair is "structural" or "nonstructural."
The safest approach to obtaining exclusive rights for uses of a copyrighted work is to procure those rights from all of the copyright's owners. Then how "exclusive" is a license that is obtained from one joint owner of a copyright? Litigation in Nevada federal court involving rights on which the highly successful musical Jersey Boys was allegedly based deals with this very question.
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Many writers, observers and enthusiasts following this year's professional sports labor disputes in both the NFL and the NBA focused solely on the players, the owners and the fans. But there is another group of stakeholders that is inevitably affected by a lack of labor peace: sponsorship partners.
Recent rulings of importance to your practice.
While the legal status of class action waivers is evolving in the United States, largely due to a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year, franchisors that operate in the United States and Canada also should be aware of the differences in how the two countries address this important element of franchise contracts.
