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In the Spotlight: Getting a Lease Signed in 20 Days
What can a landlord do to get that critical lease signed as soon as possible so that a competing landlord or global event does not cause this prospective tenant to reconsider?
Alternative Dispute Resolution As a Problem-Solving Device
Practitioners have observed escalating disillusion of clients with litigation as the primary vehicle for dispute resolution. Here are its advantages.
10 Commandments for a Successful Loan Workout
There are indications that commercial real estate loans are on increasingly shaky ground. With that in mind, here are 10 commandments for a successful loan workout.
Asset Sales in Bankruptcy
Notwithstanding the dramatic events of the historic mega-bankruptcies over the last two years, little may actually have changed for debtors and potential acquirors of distressed assets on a going-forward basis.
Challenges to Reinstatement of Debt under Young Broadcasting
This article explores the facts of both <i>Charter</i> and <i>Young Broadcasting</i> that led the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to reach different conclusions regarding what appeared to be substantially similar reinstatement plans.a loan agreement containing terms and interest rates much more favorable than present market conditions may be a valuable asset of a debtor that is worth preserving through reinstatement under ' 1124(2).
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Being a Principal in Production and Distribution Agreement Makes Artist Subject to Personal Jurisdiction<br>Complaint over Broadcast Agreement Found Flawed<br>Filming Dance Competition Is of "Public Interest"
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COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT/NON-TRADITIONAL TEST<br>TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT/BAND NAMES, ALBUM TITLES
Unauthorized Uses of Music in Campaign Ads
Lawrence Y. Iser, a partner in Los Angeles's Kinsella, Weitzman, Iser, Kump & Aldisert LLP, served as attorney for Jackson Browne in the McCain litigation and is counsel to musician David Byrne in a pending action against Florida Governor Charlie Crist that was filed after Crist used the Talking Heads' song and recording "Road to Nowhere" in Crist's campaign ad for the U.S. Senate. In the Q&A that follows, Iser responds to questions from <i>Entertainment Law & Finance</i> Editor-in-Chief Stan Soocher about litigation and related issues regarding music in political ads.
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Royalty Reduction for English-Titled Songs Is Ruled Contract Breach
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided that, in paying reduced royalties for English-titled instrumental versions of songs, Universal breached subpublishing agreements that Brazilian songwriters Antonio Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes entered into with Universal's predecessors-in-interest.
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