Sports Law

Recently, many YouTube creators have struggled with/complained loudly about the platform’s new rules for designating content directed at children. This, of course has led podcasters, too to become concerned and to wonder whether COPPA applies to them. COPPA, which stands for Child Online Privacy Protection Act, was enacted by the ... Read More

In a move that could upend the US theatrical exhibition landscape, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice has announced that it will seek court approval to terminate the Paramount Consent Decrees. The Paramount Consent Decrees went into effect in 1948 following the decision of the Supreme Court in ... Read More

By Bennett Liebman 2019 was a remarkable year for sports wagering in New York State - not so much for what was actually accomplished - but for the amount of lobbying work done on behalf of sports wagering interests. Rarely, if ever have more organizations been involved in lobbying the ... Read More

By Chantelle A. Gyamfi Edited by Elissa D. Hecker Below, for your browsing convenience, the categories are divided into: Entertainment, Arts, Sports, Media, and General News: ENTERTAINMENT How Taylor Swift Dragged Private Equity into Her Fight Over Music Rights In an open letter posted to social media, the pop megastar ... Read More

[Editor Charlie sez:  This is a post from 2/6/18 with an update from this week as noted.  MTP readers also might want to re-read this post about Spotify lawyer’s gratuitous attack on David Lowery.] UPDATE: Senator Thom Tillis and Representatives Ben Cline, Martha Roby, Ted Deutch and Harley Rouda have ... Read More

The latest issue of Music & Copyright is now available for subscribers to download. Here are some of the highlights. Subscription services face the challenge of maintaining user growth Music company revenue from music subscriptions is set to rise this year, as take-up of the likes of Apple Music, Deezer, ... Read More

The Scottish Parliament is set to consider a draft Defamation bill, the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill. The drafters intend to codify the treatment of defamation, which is now "spread across several statutes and areas of common law," according ... Read More

By Madhulika Murali. Two years after the 2017 “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, including the terror killing of counter-protestor Heather Heyer, the culprit confederate statues of Robert E. Lee (Henry Shrady and Leo Lentelli, 1924) and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (Charles Keck, 1921) (the “Statues”) have been allowed ... Read More

There’s a case shaping up in the U.S. Supreme Court that I haven’t paid too much attention to–but suddenly realized it’s something we should all care about because it could set precedent for fair use cases for decades to come:  Google v. Oracle. [MTP readers will remember the Oracle case ... Read More

Evelyn Aswad, University of Oklahoma College of Law, is publishing To Protect Freedom of Expression, Why Not Steal Victory from the Jaws of Defeat? in volume 77 of the Washington & Lee Law Review (2020). Here is the abstract. Global ... Read More

By Angela Dimery and Louise Carron. New York is the reigning capital of art law, and this Fall confirmed that there are many places to be and much art to see. The three events below, which have become regular fixtures on the calendars of legal practitioners, reflect the richness of ... Read More

Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University Law School, has published Speech: The Constitution, Impeachment, and the Trump Presidency. Here is the abstract. Our Eighteenth Century Constitution was supposed to operate without political parties, but today we have a very strong ... Read More

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By La-Vaughnda Taylor Edited by Elissa D. Hecker Below, for your browsing convenience, the categories are divided into: Entertainment, Arts, Sports, Media, and General News: Entertainment Amid Tech Advances, U.S. Moves to End Rules on Movie Distribution The U.S. Justice Department has moved to end the longstanding consent decrees, known ... Read More

Barbara Ringer: Beyond the © — Tuesday marked the anniversary of the appointment of Barbara Ringer as the first female US Register of Copyrights. The Copyright Office notes the occasion with some anecdotes about the remarkable Ringer. 2 Copyright Profs’ SCOTUS Wishlists for ‘Oracle v. Google’ — Last Friday, the ... Read More

CNN reports that Reddit has "warned" those who use the Reddit "The Donald" subreddit forum not to harass or try to "out" the whistleblower who filed a formal complaint that has led to the impeachment inquiry currently going on in ... Read More

Who can forget the nightmare of the Justice Department’s counterproductive flirtation with 100% licensing the last time the DOJ reviewed the consent decrees.  (We covered the 100% licensing head fake in a podcast and a guide to 100% licensing.) Since then, the Congress passed the Music Modernization Act, which includes a ... Read More

The Latest episode of my Entertainment Law podcast, Entertainment Law Update, is now available for your enjoyment. Listen here, or subscribe and download in your favorite podcast listening app.  Show notes are located at www.entertainmentlawupdate.com/115 CONSENT DECREES SET TO EXPIRECASE ACT PASSES HOUSE FLOORFOLLOW-UP LIGHTNING ROUNDJOHNNY DEPP SETTLES-A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR LAWYERSTAYLOR ... Read More

[This post first appeared on MusicTech.Solutions] Even though they have a long history, Presidential Signing Statements are not exactly front and center in every civics class or constitutional public law class in America.  You may be hearing about them for the first time now.  But that doesn’t mean they have ... Read More

The latest issue of Music & Copyright is now available for subscribers to download. Here are some of the highlights. China set to enter the top five as recorded music sales are forecast to continue rising Ovum has updated its forecasts for retail sales of recorded music. In line with ... Read More

A few weeks ago, I quietly began releasing episodes of a new podcast, called More, Better, Faster! Success Strategies for Show Business Professionals.Today, I released the 11th episode, featuring conversation with Financial expert, Cortlon Cofield, in which we discussed some common financial mistakes creative folks make, and some tips to ... Read More

By Sophie Chung. In 2018, investors who put money into art saw an average gain of 10.6% according to the Wall Street Journal based on Art Market Research’s Art 100 Index.[1] While the numbers are attractive, entering the art market that is less volatile and speculative may be infeasible. Buying ... Read More

By Barry Werbin On Friday, November 15th, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the long-running Oracle v. Google case, which addresses whether software application program interfaces (APIs) are subject to copyright protection and if Google was otherwise entitled to a fair use defense for copying portions of Oracle's JAVA declaring ... Read More

By Michael A. Scott, Esq. The National Football League Players' Association (NFLPA), Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird) have teamed up on a unique venture, titled OneTeam Partners LLC (OneTeam), to help boost image and likeness revenues for athletes through private equity. The NFLPA and ... Read More

Eric Lanter Edited by Elissa D. Hecker Below, for your browsing convenience, the categories are divided into: Entertainment, Arts, Sports, Media, and General News: Entertainment Taylor Swift Escalates Battle With Scooter Braun and Big Machine Taylor Swift has called on her "fervent army of fans" to speak out about her ... Read More

Richard Ashby Wilson, University of Connecticut School of Law, has published The Digital Ethnography of Law: Studying Online Hate Speech Online and Offline at 3 Journal of Legal Anthropology 1 (October 2019). Here is the abstract. The ethnography of social ... Read More

Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers Law School, and Ryan Whittington, German Marshall Fund of the United States, has published Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the Future of Online Speech, a Rutgers Law School Research Paper. Here is the ... Read More

Cancelling political ads that tread on (or even trample…or even incinerate) someone’s truth are all the rage.  Having skimmed the cream from political ad revenue, Twitter has announced it is banning political ads to great fanfare–after the cow escaped from the barn.  (What this “ban” actually means in practice remains ... Read More

MLC, Digital Services Strike Deal to Fund Music Modernization Act-Mandated Database — The MLC, which must begin offering and administering blanket licenses under Section 115 of the Copyright Act, would get $33.5m in startup costs and $28.5m in annual operating costs from the digital music services if the settlement is ... Read More

Thanksgiving, and the Winter holiday chaos that ensues are just around the corner. Once they arrive, most non-retail businesses can expect things to go into a sort of “standby” mode until after the new year. the entertainment industry, in particular, goes pretty quiet at this time of the year. A ... Read More