Entertainment Industry Law Issues
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
BEWARE: OpenAI's "Sora" Text-To-Video AI Model May Be The Most Dangerous Threat Yet!
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Sora is an AI model from OpenAI that can create realistic video scenes from simple text instructions. As such, Sora is bound to raise a myri...
Thursday, January 18, 2024
UNDERSTANDING TERMINATION RIGHTS UNDER U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW
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The 1976 Copyright Act provides for the termination of copyright transfers. It entitles content creators to reclaim their copyrights - regar...
Monday, October 9, 2023
FILM & TELEVISION WRITER COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS: WHAT THEY MEAN AND HOW THEY WORK
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Under the US copyright law, although ideas alone are not protectable, an author or creator owns a copyright in his or her work ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Thinking Out Loud about the Blurred Lines in Current Copyright Law
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As a copyright lawyer, my opinion is that the "Blurred Lines" decision should have been overturned on appeal. However, the more re...
Monday, September 18, 2023
D.I.Y. v. GETTING SIGNED TO A MAJOR RECORD LABEL IN THE CURRENT SOCIAL MEDIA ERA
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The question these days for musical performing artists seems to be whether it is better to do it yourself ("DIY") or sign with a m...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
USE OF "SAMPLES" FROM PRE-EXISTING RECORDINGS STILL NEED TO BE PROPERLY CLEARED TO AVOID COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
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M any clients still ask about whether or not they can "sample" from an existing sound recording and how much is permissible to use...
Monday, February 27, 2023
BEWARE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POSES A THREAT TO ARTISTIC CREATIVITY AND A POTENTIAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT NIGHTMARE!
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The headlines these days are full of stories about artificial intelligence (“AI”). It seems AI has gone from science fiction to reality in a...
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