Practice Area: Entertainment, Arts & Sports
New York’s New Right of Publicity Law: Protecting Performers and Producers
When New York’s new right of publicity law becomes effective on May 29, 2021, a number of new protections will become codified in New York that will benefit performers and celebrities, as well as their estates.
Who Owns You When You Die? What Can Be Learned From Prince, Michael Jackson and Robin Williams’ Estates
In life, Prince, who died without a will, pulled his videos from YouTube and once threatened to sue the website over copyright concerns.
In death, his video catalog is now available to stream on his official YouTube Channel.
Trials in Fiction and Film: Can Reality Compete?
Reality and fiction are not the same. Fiction represents an author’s shaping, focusing and changing reality to tell a story. Trouble comes when fictional trial scenes start to impact real trials. Memorable fiction and drama involving lawyers usually contains a trial scene. There are obvious reasons for this: trials are invariably depicted as exciting dialectic … Continued
Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal – Fall 2020
Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal – Summer 2020
EASL Virtual Brown Bag Lunch: U.S. Women’s Soccer Quest for Equal Pay
The EASL Section Sports Committee held a virtual brown bag lunch on August 19, 2020. Carol Goodman led an interactive discussion of the recently decided ruling by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, which denied the U.S. Women’s National Team’s pay disparity claims under the Equal Pay Act against the U.S. Soccer Federation. Ms. Goodman … Continued
Copyright & COVID-19: Navigating Streaming Laws for Online Classrooms in the New Normal
Once COVID-19 began spreading rapidly throughout the U.S. this past spring, schools across the state and nation quickly closed their doors, and our educational system had to adjust to a new kind of learning that began to take place primarily all online. Months later, many parts of New York City and the rest of the … Continued
Honoring Judith Bresler
Judith Bresler passed peacefully at New York Presbyterian Hospital on May 21, 2020, following a valiant battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. The distinguished lecturer and prominent art law attorney delighted in playing the piano, and flourished in her innate gift for language; writing poetry, mastering her boggle skills, and eventually becoming co-author of the leading treatise … Continued
Negotiating Contracts in the Era of COVID-19
When it comes to negotiation, there are three pillars: knowing the deal, drafting the deal and protecting your clients. These three pillars will soon have a “COVID overlay” according to New York attorney Jill Pilgrim of Pilgrim & Associates. Some of these COVID-19 considerations may in fact be “deal killers.” “COVID-19 is going to impact … Continued