Sports Law

By Bennett Liebman Actors' Equity Slams New York City's "Open Culture" Outdoor Performance Plan, https://deadline.com/2021/03/actors-equity-association-open-culture-plan-new-york-city-wage-safety-issues-1234706412/ Offstage Tempest at American Shakespeare Center, https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/03/04/an-offstage-tempest-at-american-shakespeare-center/ COVID and theater: Daniel Fish, Culture Clash reflect on shutdown, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-03-02/covid-theater-shutdown-anniversary-daniel-fish-culture-clash With Broadway still dark due to Covid, actors find work 10,000 miles away in Australia, https://www.cnn.com/style/article/broadway-covid-sydney-australia-intl-hnk/index.html Democracy ... Read More

By Bennett Liebman LSU football: Les Miles was banned from being with co-eds, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/03/04/es-miles-banned-contacting-co-eds-after-probe/6918204002/ Supreme Court Brief In Alston Case Should Make The NCAA Very Concerned, https://abovethelaw.com/2021/03/supreme-court-brief-in-alston-case-should-make-the-ncaa-very-concerned/ Overtime Is Going To Start Paying Top HS Basketball Talent, https://www.outkick.com/overtime-is-going-to-start-paying-top-hs-basketball-talent-6-figure-salaries/ Former NFL Player Kellen Winslow II Sentenced To 14 Years, https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973541706/former-nfl-pro-bowler-kellen-winslow-ii-sentenced-to-14-years-for-sex-crimes Tokyo ... Read More

“Grumpy Cat” is Long Gone But Her Copyright Lives On in Court — Ernesto Van der Sar reports at Torrentfreak, “Grumpy Cat is no longer with us. Tardar Sauce passed away in 2019 but the humans she shared a house with are keeping her memory alive. They do this in ... Read More

By Noor Kadhim. Was it rashness, a need to burn a hole in his wallet, or simply sheer passion that prompted a buyer to fork out more than $90,000,000 for Sandro Botticelli’s “Young Man Holding a Roundel” at Sotheby’s New York auction in January 2021?[1] The work, dated 1480, last exchanged hands for a paltry £810,000 in ... Read More

Frank G. Colella, Pace University, has published A Look Back at the Clear and Present Danger of Free Speech during the First World War at 265 N.Y.L.J. 7 (Jan. 27, 2021). Here is the abstract. Just over 100 years ago, ... Read More

Fordham Law Democracy Clinic Reports has published Improving Communication with Public Officials on Social Media: Proposals for Protecting Social Media Users’ First Amendment Rights. Here is the abstract. Government officials undermine a key platform for communication with the public when ... Read More

Alan M. Sears, Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden Law School, Leiden University, is publishing Algorithmic Speech and Freedom of Expression in volume 53 of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2020). Here is the abstract. Algorithms have ... Read More

By David Jenkins. On December 21, 2020 the U.S. Congress passed a COVID-19 relief bill unlocking stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits, and education funding. It was almost too easy to miss a rather important addendum to that 2,124-page bill: the passage of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act, abbreviated ... Read More

By Angela Peco Edited by Elissa D. Hecker Below, for your browsing convenience, the categories are divided into: Entertainment, Arts, Sports, Technology/Media, and General News: Entertainment Settlement Reached in Suit Accusing James Franco of Sexual Misconduct Two former students have dropped their claims against Franco but terms of the settlement ... Read More

By Bennett Liebman Puma Sued For Declaring War On Olympics Trademarks, https://abovethelaw.com/2021/02/puma-sued-for-declaring-war-on-olympics-trademarks/ Bill introduced by Sen. Jerry Moran would allow college athlete endorsement deals, https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/30957361/bill-introduced-sen-jerry-moran-allow-athlete-endorsement-deals New California College Sports Bill Would Actually Hurt Schools In The State, https://abovethelaw.com/2021/02/new-california-college-sports-bill-would-actually-hurt-schools-in-the-state/ Patriots Trade Secrets At Issue in Bielema, https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2021/patriots-trade-secrets-1234623485/ Artemi Panarin Accusation Leave ... Read More

By Eve Gatenby. Most Frans Hals portraits have a kind of swagger to them that suggests that they are enjoying a good joke at the viewer’s expense, from the smirk of “The Laughing Cavalier” (1624), to the full-blown hilarity of “Malle Babbe” (1633-35). The portrait “Unknown Gentleman” purchased by Richard ... Read More

By Bennett Liebman Lincoln Center to create outdoor performance spaces this spring, https://broadwaynews.com/2021/02/25/lincoln-center-to-create-outdoor-performance-spaces-this-spring/ Arts, Entertainment and Recreation in New York City, https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/arts-entertainment-and-recreation-new-york-city-recent-trends-and-impact-covid-19 New York City's Arts and Recreation Employment Down 66%, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/arts/nyc-arts-recreation-employment.html California Lost 175,000 'Creative Economy' Jobs, Study Finds, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/arts/california-arts-funding.html Milwaukee Rep announces reopening for live theater in April, ... Read More

Texas Justices Weigh Novel ‘Takings’ Copyright Fight — “The Texas Supreme Court questioned during oral arguments on Thursday whether a photographer can proceed with allegations that the University of Houston unconstitutionally ‘took’ his copyrighted image without permission. Photographer Jim Olive claims that because the university is part of the public ... Read More

The Sixth Circuit has affirmed the ruling of a lower court dismissing complaints against two defendants for tweets about the 2019 March for Life rally. Plaintiffs who were Covington High School students and participants in the March sued Twitter users ... Read More

The FCC has published the tentative agenda for its March 17th open meeting. Among the items the FCC plans to discuss at this point: Improving the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts Consideration of Two National Security Matters (unidentified) ... 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/130 NEW COMPENDIUM COMING THIS MONTHBEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICER USES COPYRIGHT TO AVOID LIVE STREAMINGSCOTUS DENIES CERT TO ... 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/129 LIEBOWITZ LAWSUIT  OVER $15.00 IN REVENUE DEFEATED IN FAIR USEOH THE PLACES WE’LL BOLDLY GO –  REVERSED ... Read More

Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, University of Missouri School of Law, has published Post, Robert C., The Social Foundations of Defamation Law: Reputation and the Constitution, 74 Calif. L. Rev. 691 (1986) at 25 Comm. L. and Pol'y 491 (2020). Here is ... Read More

The latest issue of Music & Copyright is now available for subscribers to download. Here are some of the highlights. Ninth Circuit set to decide whether royalties are payable in California on pre-1972 recordings The almost never-ending legal battle between artists Flo & Eddie and the satellite radio broadcaster SiriusXM ... Read More

Every now and then we run into a great resource for artists, managers, labels toiling in the vineyard of the music business as currently constituted.  The new Your Morning Coffee podcast is one of those, featuring Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart and it’s highly recommended for your valuable time.  You ... Read More

While most of us look back on the last twelve months as a horrible dream, Hollywood’s labor unions can actually point to a string of successes. Early in the pandemic, all three of the above-the-line guilds closed new three year deals that among other things included significant increases in residuals ... Read More

What is Copyright? Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. In the United States, Copyright rights are established under the United States Copyright Act (17 USC 101, et. seq.). I have ... Read More

What is Copyright? Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. In the United States, Copyright rights are established under the United States Copyright Act (17 USC 101, et. seq.). I have ... Read More

What is Copyright? Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. In the United States, Copyright rights are established under the United States Copyright Act (17 USC 101, et. seq.). I have ... Read More

What is Copyright? Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. In the United States, Copyright rights are established under the United States Copyright Act (17 USC 101, et. seq.). I have ... Read More

What is Copyright? Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. In the United States, Copyright rights are established under the United States Copyright Act (17 USC 101, et. seq.). I have ... Read More

By Travis Marmara Edited by Elissa D. Hecker Below, for your browsing convenience, the categories are divided into: Entertainment, Arts, Sports, Technology/Media, and General News: Entertainment Morgan Wallen Holds No. 1 Slot Again Following Use of Racial Slur Earlier this month, Morgan Wallen was shown on camera casually yelling an ... Read More

An announcement of a new, peer-reviewed journal: Journal of Free Speech Law We are delighted to announce the founding of the Journal of Free Speech Law, a new faculty-edited law journal. The journal will publish in print as well as ... Read More

One thing you can say about Big Tech apologists Complete Music Update is they are consistent.  Yes, the Pravda of music tech can always be counted on to come up with the lamest excuses for the excesses of the 1% of the 1%.  The latest example is CMU’s coverage of ... Read More

By, Bennett Liebman Australia, with low covid rates, is open for theater business again, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/australia-theaters-reopening-covid/2021/02/18/568f08a2-7062-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html Broadway stars in 2021 Time 100 Next List, https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news-features/broadway-stars-acknowledged-in-2021-time-100-next-list New York City cultural institutions like Broadway and theaters fear being left out of Andrew Cuomo reopening, https://www.crainsnewyork.com/hospitality-tourism/cultural-institutions-fear-being-left-out-cuomos-reopening What We Talk About When We Talk About ... Read More