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Reading the AB5 crystal ball: How the new law may impact creatives in California
Max Hacker is a partner at AltView Law Group, LLP in Los Angeles, California. His practice...
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The IFTA® Standard Licensing Agreements, Terms and Definitions Are “Common ground” When Licensing Films and Television Programming Worldwide
This article was written by Susan Cleary, Esq., Southwestern Law School Class of 1993, Vice...
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The Lowdown on Tax Credits
Zachary Tarica is the CEO of The Forest Road Company, a specialty film financing company that...
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Christine Torres on How She Became a TV Writer After Being a District Attorney
Christine Torres (WGA, west) is a writer, producer, and consultant who develops film, documentary,...
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Blockchain: Here’s What You Need to Know to Keep Up With the Holiday Party Chatter — and to Spot Legal Issues with This New Technology
Blockchain Is All the Rage, So… What Is It? This post was written by Orly Ravid, Director of the...
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‘Oh, Really?’ President, With Loads of Deceit But Little Law on Her Side, Tries to Trump Rival With Baby Bump. Will It Topple Her House of Cards?
In our ‘Oh, Really?’ feature, the Biederman Blog’s editors — voracious consumers of all matters...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer hits ‘sweet home’ in NYC, where appellate judges reject bar to filming and release of ‘Street Survivor’ biopic dramatizing not just band tragedy but also rise of southern rock
A trio of federal appellate judges in New York have taken a rare role typically reserved for...
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MMA and USMCA? They’re not piles of letters. They’re the future of copyright, protections key to Hollywood, music and entertainment industries.
*Editors note: This post was updated (see below) on Nov. 12, 2018: In recent years, courts,...
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Yes, It Takes 400 Bureaucrats, 20 Or So Judges, and Now 9 Supreme Court Justices to Decide a Copyright Basic: When Can Creatives Sue to Protect IP?
This guest post was written by Crystal R. Nobregas, a Southwestern Law School fourth-year evening...
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Filmmakers working with tight budgets face daunting legal expenses. Southwestern’s Entertainment & The Arts Legal Clinic offers no-cost help, in exchange for students getting invaluable hands-on experience.
Legal fees for entertainment projects in Los Angeles are costly and daunting. But they’re...
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The ‘Cobbler’ was a dud. But it has stitched up an appellate ruling on IP addresses, preventing copyright owners from acting like heels.
This guest post was written by Crystal R. Nobregas, a Southwestern Law School fourth-year evening...
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Ask not what a bot does to thee: Sony and Facebook back down after taking down part of British pianist’s posted J.S. Bach performance video
Johann Sebastian Bach may have died 268 years ago, but does legal discord still prevail over the...
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Not your average ROM com: No love lost as video game ’emulators’ get legal blast from Nintendo
This guest article is a courtesy cross-post from the social media of the Wolk & Levine law...
Read MoreAfter fans ripped ‘Michael’ for ‘fake’ songs, Sony and King of Pop’s estate won free-speech protection for product answers, judges find
The King of Pop may have died a decade ago but his legacy of litigation lives on, as a California...
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Au revoir, appellate court says to Calif. attempt to give artists a percentage of rising value of their works under ‘droit de suite’ concept
With blood, sweat, and tears, a quartet of California artists pursued their vision, winning over...
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In shoot-out with shooters, CoreLogic prevails: Software doesn’t create infringement woes by erasing metadata, ending a tiff over house photos
Location, location, location— that’s the mantra to describe what matters in real estate,...
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William Leonard Roberts II played yet another round of the name game. But this time appellate judges found Uncle Sam the mastermind, with his marks demanding respect
William Leonard Roberts II has kept lawyers and judges busy with his apparent identity crisis,...
Read MoreSho’ Nuff: fiscal risk persists for music publishers after appellate court revives copyright suit, royalties claims over tune sampled for Justin Timberlake Hit ‘Suit & Tie’
Sho’ Nuff, some music publishers still may have a financial reckoning ahead with a trio who...
Read More‘Moral rights’ may hold some sway in Egyptian music, but Jay-Z rules like a pharoah in an appellate win in a long-running infringement case involving rap hit ‘Big Pimpin’
The Egyptians’ and their empire, culture, and world views so enthralled the ancient world...
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ComicMix’s mashup with ‘Star Trek’ elements goes boldly against a Dr. Seuss mark. But title the satire’s latest judicial win a study in the importance of *footnotes
Literary history’s littered with simply awful book titles: Jane Austen, for example,...
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You know where SpongeBob works as a cook, right? That’s also why an appellate court fried up real eateries’ hopes to be called ‘The Krusty Krab’
To the imaginary denizens of Bikini Bottom, including cartoon legend SpongeBob SquarePants, the...
Read MoreDoes Disney’s mood swing from elation to anger? Persistent plaintiff sees ‘Inside Out’ infringement claim tossed for a second time (No surprise, Sherlock?) But she appeals.
It wasn’t exactly a super hero aggregation like The Avengers, but a federal judge in Los...
Read More‘Oh, really?:’ Legal ethics get flipped aside by smarmy lawer in comedic ‘Bob’s Burgers’
In our ‘Oh, Really?’ feature, the Biederman Blog’s editors — voracious consumers of all matters...
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Seeing mostly negatives, appellate judges nix ‘next friend’ advocacy to advance infringement claim aimed at protecting a great ape’s selfies
Although three federal judges have sought to quash some copyright monkeyshines, a fourth and...
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Cyber world’s atwitter over fast appellate review set for ‘Server Test’ ruling in suit over embedded photo tied to sports stars Tom Brady, Danny Ainge, and Kevin Durant
Along with major media and online information enterprises, millions who merrily apply a feature of...
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