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Ninth Circuit Focuses On Extrinsic Test In Ruling On Choreography Copyright Image

Ninth Circuit Focuses On Extrinsic Test In Ruling On Choreography Copyright

Stan Soocher

Reversing and remanding, the Ninth Circuit emphasized: "The district court's approach of reducing choreography to 'poses' is fundamentally at odds with the way we analyze copyright claims for other art forms, like musical compositions."

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Want to Get Your Attorneys More Engaged? Get Them In the Office Image

Want to Get Your Attorneys More Engaged? Get Them In the Office

AshLea Allberry

Law firm leaders are increasingly concerned with lack of engagement. With law firm demand down and office attendance policies in flux, many firms don't believe their workforce is optimally motivated and are struggling with disengagement. The concern is that psychological investment changes when professionals don't see co-workers in the office, making it easier to develop distance, and disconnect.

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Second Circuit Likely to Deliver Big Win for Commercial Shopping Center Lessor Image

Second Circuit Likely to Deliver Big Win for Commercial Shopping Center Lessor

Michael L. Cook

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, on remand from the Supreme Court, further remanded to the district court the key issue of whether the Chapter 11 debtor gave "adequate assurance of future performance of" a commercial real property shopping center lease "as required by the Bankruptcy Code after the debtor's assignment of its lease.

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Key Win Likely for Commercial Shopping Center Lessor In Second Circuit Image

Key Win Likely for Commercial Shopping Center Lessor In Second Circuit

Michael L. Cook

The Second Circuit, on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, further remanded to the district court the key issue of whether the Chapter 11 debtor gave "adequate assurance of future performance of" a commercial real property shopping center lease "as required by [Bankruptcy Code] §365(b)(3)(A)," after the debtor's assignment of its lease.

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When Is A Real Estate Instrument Filing Fee An Unauthorized Tax? Image

When Is A Real Estate Instrument Filing Fee An Unauthorized Tax?

Cameron Macdonald

Litigation pending in the Suffolk County Supreme Court is challenging fees charged for tax map verifications on real estate instruments filed with the county clerk as unauthorized taxes.

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AI Is Attracting Antitrust Regulatory Scrutiny Image

AI Is Attracting Antitrust Regulatory Scrutiny

Gretchen L. Jankowski & Abigail L. Cessna

While some jurisdictions are enacting or proposing AI-specific regulation, many existing regulatory frameworks apply to new technologies, including antitrust. Companies may experience different potential antitrust risks depending on the type of AI technology and their use of that technology.

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CA Bankruptcy Court Throws Regulatory Concerns Aside and Sides With Cannabis Business' Chapter 11 Plan Image

CA Bankruptcy Court Throws Regulatory Concerns Aside and Sides With Cannabis Business' Chapter 11 Plan

Lawrence J. Kotler & Ryan Spengler

While this case does not fully open the courthouse doors to cannabis-related businesses and seemingly grants the bankruptcy courts a great deal of discretion when ruling on similar cases in the future, cannabis-related businesses may now have a roadmap to pursue reorganization.

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AI's Growing Impact On the Gaming Industry

Katherine A. Baker, Jeffrey M. Kelly & Joshua L. Kirschner

The gaming and wagering sector has begun to cross paths with artificial intelligence technology in ways both predictable and unforeseen. As with other industries, AI technology inevitably has found its way into various components of the gaming experience. What is striking, however, is how AI is revolutionizing gaming for operators, regulators, suppliers and patrons alike.

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Adaptive Reuse of Vacant Office Buildings

David Freylikhman & Sarah E. Michigan

While transforming existing buildings for alternative purposes is not a new concept, this article seeks to explore the feasibility of alternative repurposing options with a focus on pre-existing office buildings; namely, converting vacant office space into vertical farms or cannabis growth operations.

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Real Property Law

New York Real Estate Law Reporter Staff

Notice of Pendency Improper In Private Nuisance Action Incapacity and Undue Influence Challenge to Deed Fails Authority Entitled to Divert Surface Water Covenant Restricting Landscaping Changes Enforced Failure to Record Does Not Invalidate Deed Against Purchaser Charged With Notice

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