Music
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Intellectual Property
Concerts & Contracts: Restrictive Artist Riders' Impact On The Festival Scene
Can Coachella really keep artists from performing at other music festivals? We shall see. -
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Intellectual Property
Blurred Lines: Can You Copy A Music Genre?
This Ninth Circuit decision could damage copyright's important limits, spurring more lawsuits and chilling the creation of new music.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.22.18
* The First Law Student is single. People reports Tiffany Trump broke up with her longtime boyfriend as part of her law school transition. [People]
* Jeffrey Toobin and Alan Dershowitz clash on television when Toobin points out that Dershowitz’s cable appearances these days are less legal analysis than auditions for Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s job. [Daily Beast]
* Charles Cooper says Jeff Sessions is not currently under investigation for false statements or perjury. Update your scorecards accordingly. [USA Today]
* Ninth Circuit rules in favor of the Gaye family in the Blurred Lines lawsuit. Wait, that’s still going on? [Courthouse News Service]
* Former Florida State deputy general counsel arrested in child sex sting. [Tallahassee Democrat]
* In-house counsel are very concerned about GDPR. [Big Law Business]
* Some people have some entirely understandable problems with Lindsay’s new ad. [Ad Age]
* CSM believes the Austin bomber case shows off law enforcement’s deep surveillance powers. Yeah, they were so deep they pretty much did nothing for weeks. [Christian Science Monitor]
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Television
ATL March Madness: Television And Chaos
There were some surprising upsets in the first round of these brackets. -
Intellectual Property
Wrecking Ball? Why Proving Copyright Infringement In Musical Works Is More Difficult Than You Think
A $300M claim is nothing to shake a stick at, and can be heck of a 'wrecking ball' if not handled correctly. -
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Intellectual Property
Musicans Drop Holiday Hurt On Spotify With Copyright Infringement Case
It will be fascinating to see how aggressively Spotify attacks in litigation the very artists whose work its service relies on and celebrates. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.10.18
* Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris were both appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday afternoon. Booker is the first African-American man to ever serve on the SJC, and Harris is the second African-American woman to ever serve on the SJC. Congratulations! [The Hill]
* Rescind immigration protection from current DACA recipients? Dream on! That’s not going to happen under Judge William Alsup’s watch. He issued a nationwide injunction to block the Trump administration from denying program renewals for “dreamers.” [Washington Post]
* Sorry, North Carolina, but according to the Middle District, your congressional map is unconstitutionally gerrymandered. This is the first time that a federal court has blocked a congressional map because it was “motivated by invidious partisan intent.” [New York Times]
* Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen has filed defamation suits against Fusion GPS and BuzzFeed over the Steele dossier following Senator Dianne Feinstein’s publication of a transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s interview with Fusion’s co-founder. The legal action was announced over Twitter, obviously. [POLITICO]
* “Lawyers like shiny things, and so there has been a huge spike in interest in blockchain law, especially over the last year.” This is just one of the reasons why so many Biglaw firms now have blockchain practice groups and task forces. [Big Law Business]
* Norton Rose Fulbright has closed its doors in Abu Dhabi, making it the largest law firm to shutter an office in the Middle East. [American Lawyer]
* Professor Toby Heytens of UVA Law has been named the next solicitor general of Virginia. He’ll be taking his second leave of absence from the law school during his term. He took his first leave to serve in the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office. [Daily Progress]
* No, contrary to popular belief, Radiohead has not filed suit against Lana Del Rey for similarities between their hit song “Creep” and her song “Get Free” — but the band really should consider doing so, and their lawyers ought to become as “relentless” as Del Rey claimed on Twitter. Take a listen, here. [Rolling Stone]
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Small Law Firms
Taylor Swift's Lawyer Does Some Serious Player-Hating In Attempt To 'Shake Off' Absurd Copyright Lawsuit
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In-House Counsel
Before Becoming GC Of The Golden State Warriors, This Lawyer Was A Rapper
He once judged Eminem in a rap battle. How cool is that?! -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.28.17
* Martin Shkreli’s lawyer, Evan Greebel, was convicted of aiding in Pharma Bro’s fraud scheme. He faces up to 20 years. [LA Times]
* It would seem that the Trump legal team want to bash Michael Flynn as a liar — despite everything their client’s effusive defense of Flynn for months. This should be an easy pivot. [Washington Post]
* Reviewing the 2017 Supreme Court — the calm before we bring back Lochner next year. [Law360]
* The pros and cons of staying small — an interesting interview with Otterbourg chairman Richard Stehl about the business of running a 50-lawyer firm. [New York Law Journal]
* Firms expected to spend more on cybersecurity in 2017. Probably for the best since 2017 made at least one firm wanna cry. [Legaltech News]
* 2 Chainz says he was defrauded by a fake lawyer. Maybe that guy would be interested in a federal judgeship? [TMZ]
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Intellectual Property
It's A Wrap: What To Expect From The Copyright Wars In 2018
Here’s hoping that 2018 will be a year of creation, collaboration, and lawful monetization.
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Intellectual Property
Band In The USA: How Can Musicians Fight The Unauthorized Use Of Their Identities?
A number of retailers 'forget' to notify, let alone gain the consent of, bands whose identities are being exploited for profit. -
Intellectual Property
A Digital Take On The First-Sale Doctrine
Do consumers of digital works have the right to sell the digital files they possess in the same way they do physical media? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.12.17
* Former tax partner gets two year prison sentence. Maybe he can claim a good behavior deduction. [New York Law Journal]
* Chilling report on South Carolina’s routine violation of constitutional norms. [New York Times]
* Top in-house counsel share their thoughts on forging a privacy policy. As we all know, the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. [Law.com]
* Austria’s racism manages to punish a law student in a shark costume. It’s the saddest moment for sharks since Left Shark. [Lowering the Bar]
* Checking in on Rogers Stevens, the Blind Melon guitarist who now works as a mid-level Labor and Employment attorney at Ballard Spahr. [Coverage Opinions]
* Experts say the Cowboys edict that the team will bench anyone who kneels during the anthem doesn’t run afoul of the NLRA… yet. [Law360]
* A conversation with Ellisen Turner, Irell & Manella’s newly minted managing partner, about race and discrimination and the added pressure that comes with being a person of color in the legal industry. [Am Law Daily]
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Copyright, Intellectual Property, Trademarks
Intellectual Property On The Music Festival Main Stage
Almost everything having to do with music festivals involves IP law, including the counterfeit merch you bought. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.31.17
* Maybe it’s just me, but your lawyer shouldn’t be giving interviews about he “relishes a challenge,” when your entire defense — to date — is that the case against you is a “nothing burger.” Right? [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* Remember Kim Davis? Her lawyer Mat Staver wants us to know that people who hate gays are persecuted like Jews in Nazi Germany. Yes… it’s exactly like that. [Huffington Post]
* Have equity partners become employees? [American Lawyer]
* Special prosecutor appointed to look into Richard Luthmann’s alleged use of spoof Facebook accounts to masquerade as various elected officials. Perhaps he should seek to vindicate himself through trial by combat. [NY Post]
* We already knew that trial by combat is allowed in New York, but what about “blood oaths”? According to the SDNY, those are enforceable too. America’s conversion into Westeros is almost complete. [Law.com]
* Philadelphia is suing Jeff Sessions over the administration’s efforts to frustrate the town’s “sanctuary city” status. [Philly.com]
* Speaking of sanctuary, Chief Judge Orlando Garcia blocked the controversial Texas sanctuary cities law. [Washington Post]
* NLJ hands out three lifetime achievement awards. [National Law Journal]
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Crime, Music, Rap
Rap-Crimination
Rappers, write what you're going to write, but be aware -- the police are watching.